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You can browse here our urban explorations performed in Belgium, France, Spain, Germany Netherlands and Australia. In addition to the usual photos galleries, general and historical information are provided. Locations are sorted by categories:
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- abandoned factories: if you like it old, creepy and rusted, that's here... |
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- private or public buildings: castles, theaters, administrations... |
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- hospitals & asylums |
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- military domains: barracks, forts, bunkers... |
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- trains: trains stations, train graveyards... |
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- rooftops: cranes and buildings climbing |
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- undergrounds: mines, drains, quarries and catacombs! |
Inside each category, locations are sorted by decreasing 'interest' order. Interest is subjectively rated on available documentation, location content and photos quality.
You can also sort the locations by country, rating or status (abandoned, demolished, endangered...)
And if you know abandoned places or derelict buildings that are not listed below, just share them! We would be glad to explore them.
| Abandoned factories (17 explorations) | |
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SAFEA La Louvière: probabale the largest abandoned factory in Belgium. A beautiful colored chemical plant abandoned for years. | Belgium / Demolished |
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Stella-Artois abandoned brewery: located in Leuven, this brewery is extremely well-preserved. A paradise of copper! | Belgium / Endangered |
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Clabecq iron foundry: our largest industrial site ever explored. Beautiful furnaces, pipes, rust and dust... | Belgium / Active |
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Westport power plant: this industrial cathedral keeps its secrets behind sealed windows and high walls... Filming location of the movie "12 Monkeys". | USA / Endangered |
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Hasard collieries, Cheratte: Coal mine of Cheratte: explore an old abandoned yet very rich and well-preserved coal mine. | Belgium / Abandoned |
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Péronnes coal washing plant: a concrete giant building with aesthetic architecture. | Belgium / Reconverted |
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Untighten bolt factory: this jungle of sexy micro-machines used to produce fully customized bolts. | Belgium / Demolished |
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Verlipack Jumet: exploration of an abandoned glass bottles factory | Belgium / Demolished |
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Park Royal Guinness Brewery: hmmm large sites... This factory, being demolished at the time of our exploration, was extremely rich and well-preserved... | United Kingdom / Demolished |
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The mysterious steelworks: Night time. A huge blast furnace. Skip-cars. Cowpers. Rusted giants made of steel! More than 100m high. Shall we include this exploration in rooftops section? | Belgium / Abandoned |
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Interprochim S.A.: a strange exploration of a plaster sculptures factory. | Belgium / Demolished |
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Anderlues coking plant: exploration of a tiny coking plant. One of the last hardly standing in Belgium, most of them have been already destroyed. | Belgium / Endangered |
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Stella-Artois malthouse: exploration of an empty and not well-known factory. The ancient Stella malthouse is indeed worth a visit. | Belgium / Endangered |
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The Basque berets factory Pierre Laulhère: exploration of an old factory of a small Pyrenean village. | France / Abandoned |
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Du Gouffre collieries: yet another abandoned Belgian coal mine. | Belgium / Abandoned |
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Intervapeur Verviers: an abandoned steam producing plant. | Belgium / Demolished |
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Brichart Establishments: in a small village of the walloon region, one can discover the silos of the Brichart factory. A tiny aesthetical exploration... | Belgium / Demolished |
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| Private or public buildings (10 explorations) | |
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Castle of Mesen, Lede: a superb and futureless castle. Abandoned for years, it will be demolished soon. | Belgium / Endangered |
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Cinema Theater Varia: an art nouveau theater from 1910, abandoned since 1986... A piece of art from the architect Emile Claes. Historical urban exploration! | Belgium / Reconverted |
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The Sauvenière's swimming-pool: huge sports complex from the 1930's, partially abandoned, the Sauvenière's baths await a new life. | Belgium / Reconverted |
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Gary, Indiana, ghost town: yet another victim from the steel industry recession. 6 photos galleries for this city that readhed up to 200,000 inhabitants! | USA / Endangered |
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RTT home: a nice and colorful vacation residence built in 1950 by an Art-Deco Belgian architect. | Belgium / Endangered |
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The veterinary school of Brussels (Anderlecht): built in 1903, these listed buildings definitely deserved an exploration. Before the reconversion into lofts, we had the chance to infiltrate the place... | Belgium / Reconverted |
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Old Newark county Jail: and old creepy prison abandoned since 1970... | USA / Abandoned |
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Abandoned holiday camp: located in the Landes (Southern West France), this abandoned camp is built in the forest, around an old pretty villa. | France / Abandoned |
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Erpent manor house: just a beautiful 19th Century house being demolished, with a wonderful abandoned greenhouse | Belgium / Demolished |
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Otzenrath ghost town: the Garzweiler min won. Its continuous growth lead to the expropriation of this small German village. | Germany / Demolished |
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Hellingly Asylum: explore this asylum closed down in 1994. Built in extreme isolation to allow relaxation and eventually mental recovery to the disturbed patients... | United Kingdom / Abandoned |
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Oostende military hospital: a huge complex of buildings including a nice chapel in the middle of sand dunes. | Belgium / Endangered |
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West Park mental hospital: the last of the eleven great asylums built around London, a true self-sufficient city, full of underground tunnels... Atmospheric exploration! | United Kingdom / Reconverted |
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Sea View Children Hospital: explore and "taste the dreams of mad children" with us in this abandoned hospital in New-York... | USA / Abandoned |
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Le Valdor hospital: an XIXth century abandoned hospital located in Liège, Belgium. A local classic urban exploration place. Oppressive atmosphere... | Belgium / Reconverted |
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Charleroi civilean hospital: a huge and modern hospital, that is, in the seventies. Demolition is in progress, but exploring the morgue is still worth a visit... | Belgium / Demolished |
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| Military domains (4 explorations) | |
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H.M. Melbourne's Pentridge prison: infiltration of an old (1851) Prison in Melbourne. Exploration of the cells from the high security wing... | Australia / Reconverted |
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Fort Portalet: lost in the middle of the Pyrénées mountains, this abandoned fort dug into the steep cliff protected the border between France and Spain. | France / Reconverted |
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Fort de la Chartreuse, Liège: explore this huge forgotten military complex, lot of military drawings. | Belgium / Endangered |
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Verviers barracks: huge abandoned colorful barracks in a very good condition. Unique. | Belgium / Reconverted |
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| Undergrounds (7 explorations) | |
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Australian underground drains: the famous Cave Clan's underground networks! | Australia / Active |
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The abandoned crypt: explore the inside of this small cemetery to discover the forgotten underground galleries and the abandoned graves. | Belgium / Abandoned |
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Paris catacombs: visit the famous underground quarries and catacombs below Paris, with the ossuaries, ancient rooms and caves, blockhaus... | France / Abandoned |
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Underground walk in a railway network: come down with us, explore this underground active rail network and do some trainspotting... (video is password protected, ask us for authorization) | Australia / Active |
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Inside a roadbridge: instead of filling them up with concrete, most of the bridges have large artificial cavities. Often aesthetical, they are so many places to explore... | Belgium / Active |
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Maastricht casemates: come down and explore the 10km of military underground galleries, left intact and abandoned since 1868... | Netherlands / Abandoned |
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Caestert underground quarries: explore these huge limestone quarries below the Belgian and Netherlands borders. | Netherlands / Abandoned |
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| Trains (4 explorations) | |
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Canfranc railway station: located in the Pyrenees, between France and Spain, this abandoned railway station was the largest station in Europe. If you like king size derelict buildings, this is the place to explore! | Spain / Reconverted |
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SNCB abandoned building: a large forgotten building, isolated from everything, lost in nature... | Belgium / Abandoned |
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La Goutte d'eau (the 'Water Drop'): the Lescun and Cette-Eygun train station is not used since the closure of the line Oloron-Canfranc. But it was still used by an anarchist-environmentalist movement until October 2005. It is abandoned since this date. | France / Abandoned |
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Pont-à-Celles Arsenal: an abandoned train repairing site from the SNCB (Belgian National Railway company). | Belgium / Reconverted |
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| Rooftops (4 explorations) | |
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Saint sulpice secrets: spiral staircase, towers, furtive passages... Come to explore the most secret parts of St Sulpice Church | France / Active |
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Le palais de Chaillot: impressive location. the museum was being renovated during our infiltration. Unbeatable view on the eiffel Tower... | France / Active |
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Australian rooftops: another way of urban exploration. During the night, everything can be opened, climbed and explored... | Australia / Active |
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Cranes climbing: unusual night sights of the city | Belgium / Active |
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