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CdK's Blast Furnace : brainstormed, calculated, dreamed of, and then... accomplished! A short story of a long ascent which took us to the 7th industrial heaven!

Factory ***** Active

Germany 2009-08-08 2010-09-30

Hospital X : one of the biggest State Hospital of the american East Coast, slowly abandoned due to the deinstitutionalization.

Hospital ***** Abandoned

USA 2007-03-25 2007-05-21

Saint sulpice secrets : spiral staircase, towers, furtive passages... Come to explore the most secret parts of St Sulpice Church

Rooftops ***** Active

France 2006-05-19 2006-05-19

Westport power plant : this industrial cathedral keeps its secrets behind sealed windows and high walls... Filming location of the movie 12 Monkeys.

Factory ***** Demolished

USA 2006-04-02 2006-04-02

1936 Berlin's Olympic Village : like the 29 other Olympic villages, the 1936 edition has only had a short moment of glory. But unlike the others, the 1936 Olympics is possible the most significant games in our history

Public building **** Abandoned

Germany 2008-08-17 2012-08-03

Antwerp's Forensic Institute : between death and oblivion the body must undergo -tests-. Before being laid to rest. In the tranquility of legality. Thanatos comes to the aid of logic.

Hospital **** Demolished

Belgium 2006-07-23 2012-03-28

Beelitz-Heilstätten Sanatorium : this grand building has stood the test of time in history. It cured Adolph Hitler, treated thousands of tuberculosis patients, and was a Soviet military hospital. Join me as we explore the mighty Beelitz Sanatorium that is now lost and forgotten in the surrounding environment of Berlin...

Hospital **** Endangered

Germany 2008-08-15 2008-08-23

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!

Train **** Reconverted

Spain 2005-07-01 2005-07-01

Château Bijou : exploration of a real little operetta castle, with its stucco bas-reliefs and cornices and its Italian coloured frescoes...

Private building **** Endangered

France 2006-12-27 2007-04-03

Eight Of Brussels’ Churches : climb to cloud nine with us... A promenade on the sacred rooftops of Brussel - a short summary of 6 years of night explorations!

Rooftops **** Active

Belgium 2004-03-02 2010-02-20

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.

Military domain **** Reconverted

France 2005-12-30 2005-12-30

Hasard collieries, Cheratte : Coal mine of Cheratte: explore an old abandoned yet very rich and well-preserved coal mine.

Factory **** Abandoned

Belgium 2005-02-02 2009-05-07

Internationale Film-Union GmbH : Little copy and synchronization studio lost in the woods. Don Camillo, Laurel & Hardy among many others have been germanized here...

Private building **** Demolished

Germany 2009-05-17 2012-10-17

Joseph Lemaire's Sanatorium : a scary art déco hospital lost in the middle of a forest.

Hospital **** Reconverted

Belgium 2005-09-06 2009-01-14

Maastricht casemates : come down and explore the 10km of military underground galleries, left intact and abandoned since 1868...

Underground **** Abandoned

Netherlands 2006-03-25 2006-07-18

Sabinosa's Sanatorium : Visit a 1920s sanatorium in an idyllic location between the sea and the cliffs. The TB patients were removed, replaced by orphaned victims of the Francoist regime.

Hospital **** Endangered

Spain 2009-08-30 2010-05-05

The abandoned crypt : explore the inside of this small cemetery to discover the forgotten underground galleries and the abandoned graves.

Underground **** Abandoned

Belgium 2006-08-05 2006-08-29

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?

Factory **** Reconverted

Belgium 2006-08-04 2006-08-05

Uckange Blast Furnace : photographed between 2004 and 2009 during the conversion from abandonment to museum. This site will likely provide the only preserved insight into the steel industry of France.

Factory **** Reconverted

France 2006-03-12 2009-08-21

Val Benoît's University : the engineers have left the former university campus of Val Benoît! Explore these huge modernist buildings from the 30s.

Public building **** Reconverted

Belgium 2006-11-06 2010-12-25

Vilvoorde Prison : as many as 12,000 tramps, drunks, and prostitutes, all those that the society of the time considered a nuisance, were crammed in on four floors. The vaulted cells had narrow slits as the only source of light. A perpetual gloom reigned along the corridors that led to the many workshops...

Military domain **** Reconverted

Belgium 2009-05-15 2013-02-02

Abandoned holiday camp : located in the Landes (Southern West France), this abandoned camp is built in the forest, around an old pretty villa.

Public building *** Demolished

France 2005-05-01 2005-05-01

Anderlues coking plant : exploration of a tiny coking plant. One of the last hardly standing in Belgium, most of them have been already destroyed.

Factory *** Demolished

Belgium 2005-04-01 2005-04-01

Australian rooftops : another way of urban exploration. During the night, everything can be opened, climbed and explored...

Rooftops *** Active

Australia 2005-10-01 2005-10-01

Cranes climbing : unusual night sights of the city

Rooftops *** Active

Belgium 2005-09-01 2005-09-01

Diamond's opera : this page was just made to explain what infiltration means: -going into places you are not supposed to- :-)

Public building *** Active

Belgium 2006-07-23 2007-01-15

Highway bridges : underground and aerial promenades at the same time. Very atmospheric

Underground *** Active

Belgium 2007-02-10 2007-02-13

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...

Underground *** Active

Belgium 2005-12-11 2005-12-11

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.

Train *** Abandoned

France 2005-12-27 2005-12-27

Oostende military hospital : a huge complex of buildings including a nice chapel in the middle of sand dunes.

Hospital *** Reconverted

Belgium 2005-06-01 2005-06-01

RTT home : a nice and colorful vacation residence built in 1950 by an Art-Deco Belgian architect.

Public building *** Demolished

Belgium 2005-05-01 2005-05-01

SAFEA La Louvière : probabaly the largest abandoned factory in Belgium. A beautiful colored chemical plant abandoned for years.

Factory *** Demolished

Belgium 2005-03-01 2005-03-01

The unknown shipyard : construction sites are boring to explore. But ship construction sites are, well... more interesting...

Factory *** Active

Belgium 2007-02-11 2007-02-12

Verlipack Jumet : exploration of an abandoned glass bottles factory

Factory *** Demolished

Belgium 2005-11-11 2005-11-11

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...

Hospital ** Demolished

Belgium 2005-07-01 2005-07-01

Collignon's brewery, Lécluse : yet another brewery from early XXth century. Limited interest except for beer labels collectors.

Factory ** Abandoned

France 2007-01-27 2007-01-31

Interprochim S.A. : a strange exploration of a plaster sculptures factory.

Factory ** Demolished

Belgium 2005-04-01 2005-04-01

Le Valdor hospital : an XIXth century abandoned hospital located in Liège, Belgium. A local classic urban exploration place. Oppressive atmosphere...

Hospital ** Reconverted

Belgium 2005-05-01 2005-05-01

Otzenrath ghost town : the Garzweiler min won. Its continuous growth lead to the expropriation of this small German village.

Private building ** Demolished

Germany 2005-07-01 2005-07-01

Paris catacombs : visit the famous underground quarries and catacombs below Paris, with the ossuaries, ancient rooms and caves, blockhaus...

Underground ** Abandoned

France 1999-01-01 1999-01-01

Stella-Artois malthouse : exploration of an empty and not well-known factory. The ancient Stella malthouse is indeed worth a visit.

Factory ** Demolished

Belgium 2005-12-18 2005-12-18

Caestert underground quarries : explore these huge limestone quarries below the Belgian and Netherlands borders.

Underground * Abandoned

Netherlands 2005-01-02 2005-01-02

Charbrit Establishments : in a small village of the walloon region, one can discover the silos of the Charbrit factory. A tiny aesthetical exploration...

Factory * Demolished

Belgium 2005-09-03 2005-09-03