Fort Wayne, Indiana
November 2, 2005 | 5:10 p.m.

I ended up, rather improbably, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, for a night. I have been to a number of hardscrabble, decaying, post-industrial wastelands (and I'm being an optimist here), but Fort Wayne truly took the cake. Still, I was able to get this shot of city's most/only impressive civic building, the Allen County Courthouse.

While the scene may look lush, it's only because I took great care to frame this shot in a flattering manner.

Fort Wayne: I probably won't be back.