![Atop Empire State- in construction; Chrysler Bldg & [Daily] News in middle foreground. (1931)](http://cdn1.retronaut.co/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Atop-Empire-State-in-construction-Chrysler-Bldg-Daily-News-in-middle-foreground.-1931--199x123.jpg "Balancing on the Empire State, 1920s")
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All images by Ben Canales
Abandoned Homes under Stars
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I like the last one; it looks as though the Milky Way is being spewed from the two chimneys.
I wonder how they got the houses to light up so well without electricity. Also, what’s that in the background of the 2nd one? A fire?
I NEED to see skies like these! Growing up in New England has left me never having seen night skies as tremendous as these.
so magical
whoever abandoned them left the lights on
These are beautiful.