By Kathy Jones
We can feel financial pain as we watch the stock market dive, and our savings and paychecks wither—but there are physical scars too, that cut across landscapes from California's stillborn suburbs to hushed shopping malls in China. A look at the trail of emptiness left in the wake of the historic meltdown.
A nearly vacant subdivision in Rio Vista, Calif., in Nov. 2008 (Photo: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)











