Photographer steps inside abandoned Cleveland theater

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There is something eerily beautiful about exploring and photographing abandoned building, and photographer Seph Lawless is set on sharing that beauty with the world. Lawless has been traveling around the U.S. photographing abandoned race tracks and other sites of urban decay for the past few years, and for his most recent project, he has  traveled to northeast Ohio to visit the deserted Variety Theater. The theater, which closed in 1986, was one of the first single screen movie theaters in the country, and later became an iconic venue for some of rock and roll's biggest names. The theater closed in 1986, and everything has been left untouched since then. "The most interesting thing I saw was just how original everything was ... everything was [virtually] the same as when it was built. The ornate ceilings and the architecture is just so beautiful even after all these years. There was art everywhere you looked. It was hauntingly beautiful to witness," Lawless writes. These pictures are definitely worth checking out! #MWTG325