This hulking piece of machinery almost looks like part of a space rocket. Photographer Dan Cog took these photographs at the abandoned Wheeling-Pitt steel mill in Steubenville, Ohio, part of the so-called “Rust Belt” of the US. Roughly speaking, this area starts in central New York and stretches through Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and parts of Michigan, before culminating in north Illinois and east Wisconsin. The region has also been called the “industrial heartland of America.”
