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This is but one of the abandoned buildings visible from the highway (the interior of one of them anyway) in this interesting place. I had driven past for decades with growing curiosity, and finally decided to stop and look around a bit with my camera.
Eltopia is mostly a "ghost town" or rural neighborhood at this point, but there are a few farm-related businesses scattered about in the area, as well as farms that are very much operating (and each probably has its own collection of abandoned rusty equipment serving as decor of sorts) and homes around the old "downtown" location are mostly occupied. The area isn't dead but the old "downtown" area (only having a few blocks with fewer buildings still standing) is certainly lacking life. The operations that usually define a "town" have all but dried up, and evidence that it once was thriving as such is weathering away more each year, it seems.
The United States is one of the most diverse countries on earth, jam packed full of amazing sights from St. Patrick's cathedral in New York to Mount Hollywood California.The Northeast region is where it all started. Thirteen British colonies fought the American Revolution from here and won their independence in the first successful colonial rebellion in history. Take a look at these rolling hills carpeted with foliage along the Hudson river here, north of New York City.The American south is known for its polite people and slow pace of life. Probably they move slowly because it's so hot. Southerners tend not to trust people from "up north" because they talk too fast. Here's a cemetery in Georgia where you can find graves of soldiers from the Civil War.The West Coast is sort of like another country that exists to make the east coast jealous. California is full of nothing but grizzly old miners digging for gold, a few gangster rappers, and then actors. That is to say, the West Coast functions as the imagination of the US, like a weird little brother who teases everybody then gets famous for making freaky art.The central part of the country is flat farmland all the way over to the Rocky Mountains. Up in the northwest corner you can find creative people in places like Portland and Seattle, along with awesome snowboarding and good beer. Text by Steve Smith.