15 hauntingly beautiful images of abandoned buildings

We build them and then at some point we abandon them. Standing empty against the elements these abandoned building slowly decay until they are just a shell of what they once were.

Photographer Katherine Westerhout has the ability in her work to turn these abandoned buildings into something of beauty – a haunting beauty of better times before the inescapable march of time and Mother Nature return them all to the ground from which they once sprang.

via Vectro Ave