Abandoned Structures: The Stages of Ruin

Heaton

In our ten years of exploring North Dakota’s ghost towns and abandoned places, we’ve seen structures in all stages of condition.  Many places meet an unnatural end due to fire, flood, and the bulldozer.  If a building can survive without suffering an unfortunate fate however, it goes through a somewhat predictable process.  We’ve learned a [...]

All That Remains of Deisem

Deisem, North Dakota

Since starting this website about North Dakota’s ghost towns and abandoned places nearly ten years ago, suggestions about places to visit have been rolling in. One of the suggestions we’ve received on more than one occasion is a place called Deisem, North Dakota. So in July of 2012, with my business partner and fellow photographer [...]