While traveling in Greece, Dutch photographer Patrick van Dam noticed unfinished buildings and homes spotting the countryside. He had seen the photographs of people in despair due to the financial crisis in Greece, but he hadn’t seen this kind of structural beauty that had been born in the country’s troubles.

Photographer Scott Krycia grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, home of Bethlehem Steel, once one of the great steel manufacturers and ship builders in the country. The closing of the local steel plant inspired him to photograph and document abandoned places that once held prominent places in the American way of life.