From Barnard's 1924 yearbook.

Ruins on the moon.  From Drowsy by John Ames Mitchell, 1917.

We analyzed this photograph with our custom Uncanny Detector app to see if the figure contemplating the ruins is a ghost.  Apparently, he wasn't a ghost when the photograph was taken, but he is one now.  From the University of the South's 1963 yearbook.

This is one of the dangers encountered by urban explorers (Urbex) who investigate abandoned properties.  From Satirikon, 1908.  See our own Urbex adventure, here, which the acclaimed philosopher of magic, Robert E. Neale, praised as a new artform: "I cannot imagine a more striking example of how the human animal can cope.  In response to a destructive event, these animals create an expression that is uniquely original in style and content, moving, funny and thoughtful.  May we all try to do the same when life offers us the opportunity."

By W. Wellenstein.  From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.

From Bertha by Elizabeth Harriot Hudson, 1870.

My standing collection of vintage monoliths.

"And the four bare walls were all that remained."  From Everybody's Magazine, 1901.