This hotel was one of the oldest resort hotels located in Sullivan County, New York. What began as a boarding house in the early 1900s, eventually became one of the most successful hotels in an area—known as the Borscht Belt—that was once a hugely popular summer destination for (mostly Jewish) families from all over the East Coast. In 1992, the hotel became part of the Best Western Hotel chain and it closed for good in 2000 after a fire gutted the main building. Despite the s

I definitely feel as if I’ve missed the glory days of exploring abandoned psychiatric hospitals. While inpatient mental health facilities still exist to some extent today, the widespread use of psychiatric medications was the final blow to many hospitals that had already seen a steady decline in their populations and resources over the years. This particular hospital, located in upstate New York, opened in 1924 and closed in 1994 ( these photos were taken in 2019, and if you

The most fantastic thing about the New York Botanical Garden's Orchid Show is the orchids themselves