The trains don’t stop anymore at the Spring Garden subway station on SEPTA’s Broad-Ridge spur, but one of our intrepid photographers managed to take a closer look, and brought back this photo portrait

The 19th century beer barons of Philadelphia built breweries that looked more like castles than factories. For our third and final Beer Week installment, we visit the suitably ornate yet sadly vacant Rieger & Gretz Brewery on Germantown Avenue, which a neighborhood group hopes to put on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places

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