Snow fills abandoned Ohio mall in eerie photos

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Johnny Joo, a photographer who focuses on abandoned buildings and structures, recently captured snowy scenes inside the vacant Rolling Acres Mall in Akron, Ohio. The haunting series has gone viral.

"It was a combination of a strange childhood joy of winter wonderland mixed with a wild feeling of peace, being that my surroundings were so calm and quiet," Joo told Cleveland's WKYC of photographing the mall, which opened in 1975 and closed in 2008. "At the same time, it was eerie seeing the destruction in such a strange light." Read the full story here.

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