Abandoned In The Caribbean: The Ruins And Beauty of St. John
The best part of St. John is walking through the forest – and then seeing something like this appear through the trees:
Welcome To Saint John, US Virgin Islands
When my girlfriend and I decided to go to St. John in the US Virgin Islands (based on your travel recommendations!), I assumed we were in for seven days of this: I didn’t do much planning leading up to the trip. Part of it was that I tend to overplan vacations, only to end up…
Being Watched
I was recently up scouting the College of Mount St. Vincent, which has a gorgeous campus overlooking the Hudson River. Mount St. Vincent often appears during daylight hours as an archetypal college in movies and TV shows (the movie Doubt in particular). But personally, I love visiting at night. Seriously – how can you beat…
Exploring New York City’s Ghost Airport – A Trip To Floyd Bennet Field
This is the entrance to New York City’s ghost airport: Floyd Bennett Field.
Is The New York Film Academy Worth The Money? A Few Thoughts
Dear New York Film Academy, Scout, I wonder if you can help me, I’m a student at the New York Film Academy and I need a free location to shoot in for next Monday and Tuesday…The space I am looking for would be either a stage or a gym… I have a favor to ask….
The House That Created Howard Stern
A few weeks ago, I was driving out to Long Island to scout some airports while listening to the Howard Stern Show on Sirius-XM. During a replay of an old interview with Eddie Murphy, Stern and Murphy began commiserating over having grown up in the town of Roosevelt, Long Island – and I suddenly realized…
How To Launch A Nuclear Missile In The 1960’s
After exploring and researching the abandoned Cold War-era missile silo in the Saranac valley I posted about on Monday, the one big question I still had was: how do you actually fire the missile? I speculated that this device might be a part of it… Turns out, I was right. A reader by the name…
Scouting An Abandoned Cold War Missile Base Hidden In The Adirondacks
Quick note: Though you may have read about this property before, most articles have simply reprinted the same stock real estate photos over and over. As always, all pictures are my own work, and I don’t think you’ll find a tour like this anywhere else. When you first see it in the distance, you wouldn’t…
Back in Time on Ivy Hill Road
Well, there’s certainly no hill…
An Art Deco Masterpiece in the Bronx
Right before Christmas, I was scouting up along Grand Concourse in the Bronx near 166th Street, where you find a whole bunch of art deco apartment buildings…