A beloved, West Philadelphia landmark was demolished this summer by Boys Latin Charter School following the Philadelphia Historical Commission’s decision to deny historic designation. Photographer Matthew Christopher takes us inside the grand church in its final days

The loss of the Boyd was a tremendous blow to fans of the Art Deco gem, but there is another theater just outside the city waging its own campaign to reopen: the Lansdowne. Abandoned America’s Matthew Christopher has an update

Matthew Christopher takes us on a photo tour of the SS United States, the subject of a new book by Steven Ujifusa. Here’s the stripped down ship in all its massive glory

Call it “ruin porn” if you like, but for Abandoned America’s Matthew Christopher, photographing lost places is an act of interrogation–there are no answers, he says, only questions