So much time, planning and skilled labor goes into these sad buildings. It's a shame that they can't be used for some other purpose. Lack of imagination? Money?
Here's a set, for example, of some good masonry work, slowly crumbling.
[link|http://flickr.com/photos/stillburning/sets/638142/|http://flickr.com/ph...ning/sets/638142/]
(An abandoned castle in Ireland)
Thanks again for the time-sink!