RuiNation

The recent blackout should serve as a sharp reminder that the US's infrastructure is in near collapse and ruin in many areas -- thanks to the 30-year craze for "deregulation."

Of course, if you don't have to live in one, a ruin can be fascinating and even romantic. Or weirdly beautiful. The Ruins and Urban Exploration website has links to information on and photos of ghost towns, old cemeteries and catacombs, defunct amusement parks, abandoned insane asylums, the "fabulous ruins of Detroit," haunted (?) houses, unused train stations and tunnels, and all sorts of other signs of decay. Gone--or going--but not forgotten.