Pictures from rural areas in Canada, small towns, ghost towns and old buildings.

The only major criteria for posting images to this group is a rural setting (or at least evoking a rural mood or feeling of isolation) plus a dark aura (or sense of dread). Think rural decay but with a more Gothic or eerie sensibility.

Pictures of barns, silos, farms and other rural buildings decaying. Objects now part of the landscape are also welcome, such as tractors, or old farm equipment.

Pictures of rural buildings deteriorating and decaying. Must be man made and must be rural ie: old or ruined houses, sheds, doors, windows, churches.

This group is for those who explore the interiors of abandoned buildings in rural settings.

Show us your smelters, your open-hearth furnaces, your train tracks, your sulfur-burning, coal-fired plants, shuttered factories, and abandoned warehouses. Show us our cities, deserted streets and blighted neighborhoods. Show us the forgotten broad sh...

Photos of the items covered with or consisting of rust, or rusted.

Rusting, crusting, rotting, decomposing and just plain falling apart.

Cars and trucks that are rotting away.

Collections of salt and pepper shakers from around the world.