To this day, nobody knows what this structure is. This is in the Poconos, Pennsylvania

HERE ARE SOME OF THE ANSWERS:

A Stone Mason displaying his skills and various fireplace types….
Guessing it is a cooking fireplace on main level, the thick slab is the ceiling/floor and hearth, then the 2nd floor fireplace.

The whole structure has to be over 20ft tall.
Clearly a venue for sacrifices of pieces of wood to the Gods of the woodland-meant to bring warmth and comfort to all who would participate
This dude went all out when he needed to hide one
I did a reverse photo search: it’s Devils Hole Trail. That structure looks to be huge! There’s plenty of pictures across plenty of websites…
Definitely a fireplace/oven. It was most likely once part of a house that was mostly wood.
I’m in the Poconos. You run across these every once in a while. This was the only part of the house that didn’t deteriorate.
It’s a chimney with multiple fireplaces for different floors. This is why building houses out of wood isnt a good long term idea lol.
Different fire chambers for different uses. One chamber for bread, another for roasting, one for slow cooking. Etc.
First thing I thought about was some type of stove because of the four compartments
It is an ancient two story pizza oven, walled off during the pizza prohibition era.
One hell of a fireplace(s). You can see where the other floors were. Was a multi-story home with a fireplace on each floor leading into the same chimney. Wish they still built them like this.
The remains of a kitchen fireplace and chimney from a house that is gone.
This use to be a house with 2 floors. Up stairs and down stairs fireplaces both with mantles.
It’s the basement and first floor fire place of an old house. My great grandfather lived here when he was younger. His father built the home in 1863
Two fireplaces from a house, the only bit left standing because if the chimney strength obviously you can see where the floor was.
2 stories, 2 fireplaces with decorative stone arches above them. What’s so special?
This is a fireplace built by a husband while his wife told him what she wanted
Why would you not know what this is??? It’s pretty obvious… two story house fireplaces. One on bottom/ main floor and one on the second floor…
I’m going with what are the remains of a 2 story structure with multi floor fireplace for 200 Alex
Looks like a fireplace that never had the rest of the house built around it
Looks like there was different levels of the house
It’s the stove the oven the warming oven and the fireplace.
I’ve seen a number of these, two of which I know for certain were furnaces used for smelting iron ore.
Fireplace , one is in kitchen to cook others are for heating
I can’t tell from the photo, but it seams the second and fourth arches from the bottom don’t have flues in them so maybe they’re a decorative element meant to display treasured memento’s. Or. The stonemason was bored ’n’ wanted to practice arch building.
There is one deep in woods near me. Lots of coal in the area.
Maybe the bottom part was in a cellar area that might have been used as part of the Underground Railroad
Fireplace center piece from inside a home most likely. It should be checked for tunnels or caverns below. Back then they used most of their surroundings and hid them too!
There is one like this by my home. You hike about a half mile into the woods and reach a clearing with this old rock fireplace. You can make out a faint foundation. I learned that it’s the remnants of a home belonging to a couple that was taken to the Japanese internment camp in 1942
It is a outside fireplace for people who are at different heights!

The one on the ground is for very short people and the one at the top is for very tall people and so on…
This is a two-story double fireplace with a single chimney.. The yellow lines show floor level and a darken the fireplace openings so they’re a little more visible.
What do you mean nobody knows what it is? It’s a log cabin double oven. Duh
It was brick oven used for campers back in the late 1800’s. I made it up but it’s possible.
This and many are in PA and ohio since the 1800’s, It’s a furnace several factories used them to keep their business heated all the wooden buildings have rotted away …

Every blacksmith had these
At first glance, appears to be remnants of a two story structure. Soil has filled in and covered the lower part of the first floor fireplace. The thickness in front of the upper firebox suggests the floor of the second level.
Sound like house have first floor and second floor house..It’s very old and wore gone already but still stand fireplace 2…
There are versions of these throughout Pennsylvania (& likely other states) & they are what’s left of old CCC camp buildings
This is the remnants of a Hobbit house and each opening was at one point a functioning fireplace. It’s quite obvious
It is the original Ron Popeil pizza oven. Set it and forget it
Maybe that’s where Elvis was hiding, and he accidentally set fire to the place.
It’s an oven for baking bread and other things. The bakery in my small home town had a huge brick oven outside where they baked everything very early in the morning.
“One of the local legends is that there was a bottomless lake in the area and anyone who swam in it sank and went to Hell—hence the name “Devil’s Hole.” The lake is said to have disappeared after the large flood that hit the area in 1955.”

“Virtually nothing is known about the ruins in the Devil’s Hole, found ironically in Paradise Valley. According to local legends, the place was a hunting lodge, ski resort, or speakeasy. The only thing agreed upon is that it was destroyed in a fire decades ago.

I was told it was quite a hike to get to this place, about 6 hours, and that I’d have to wade through a river several times before reaching it. Long story short, the trek was less than a mile, although I did have to walk through a stream 5 or 6 times. It was slightly above ankle-deep for the most part.

The first part of the trail winds through thick rhododendrons and abruptly stops at the first water crossing.”

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