New Castle Elks Lodge (New Castle, PA) | Elk Head

Front view of the decaying elk head on the third floor. As the area where his eyes were had rotted off (likely exacerbated by mice crawling in to fetch hay out of its head), the wood and other materials used to give the head form are exposed. I hadn't expected there to still be bone and organs inside a taxidermied animal head, but seeing materials like this beneath what was once a living creature's flesh give the impression of some sort of horrific medieval cyborg, an 'old school terminator' as one of my witty friends put it.

This location is a chapter in my book, Abandoned America: The Age of Consequences.
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