Urban exploring - Exploring abandoned places
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Haven't done it but always wanted to. Heard of some tuberculosis wards, satellite stations in the middle of the everglades for monitoring soviet subs, abandoned theme parks, all were kind of close but never grabbed the exact addresses. Wasn't something any GFs I had were super excited about though lol.
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Yeah, I've lived in cities with many abandoned properties. Pittsburgh, Detroit, New Orleans, etc and I've explored many locations. My best advice is to take someone you trust with you. Why? You never know if the floors beneath your feet are stable, or who could be living inside. With two people, one of you can get help if something happens or assist if an angry hobo starts shit. Otherwise, my next best advice is DON'T GET CAUGHT by the popo.
Go into this fully aware of the possibility that you could fall through a weak section of floor and die. Or worse.
Go into this fully aware of the possibility that you could fall through a weak section of floor and die. Or worse.
There was some old factory unit just over the other side of the canal from me that I took an explore in once. I got in through a hole in the fence that someone else had made ages ago, then the building was completely open.
Don't expect to find anything good, normally it's just rolls of old insulation, some busted monitors or general shite lying around that they couldn't be asked to throw out. Still, it's a creepy experience walking round places like it and looking at graffiti and that.
If you get the means to travel, the former Soviet Union is Mecca for urban exploration. I'm planning on travelling to Moldova at some point to see Object 1180, a command and control bunker the Russians never finished building. This bloke did a video on it. A friend of a friend knows some locals in the area, they said that as long as you allow the guy in charge of the forest around it to bring you in, you can explore as you like.
Don't expect to find anything good, normally it's just rolls of old insulation, some busted monitors or general shite lying around that they couldn't be asked to throw out. Still, it's a creepy experience walking round places like it and looking at graffiti and that.
If you get the means to travel, the former Soviet Union is Mecca for urban exploration. I'm planning on travelling to Moldova at some point to see Object 1180, a command and control bunker the Russians never finished building. This bloke did a video on it. A friend of a friend knows some locals in the area, they said that as long as you allow the guy in charge of the forest around it to bring you in, you can explore as you like.
Im more interested in finding abandoned roads and trails.
Im looking for places to hide out in case the world gets even more interesting
Gotta be careful around here. I'll end up on Forensic Files.
I would be real careful in abandoned buildings because of who may be there and how dangerous it could be structure-wise. Don't go alone. If you do, have your phone on speed dial to the police.
I did find a somewhat "forgotten" Revolutionary War monument a couple years ago in Bucks County PA. Two graves with one of the soldiers being about 17. Which was pretty sad to look at. It's in a field next to a strip mall but it's hard to see it because of the grass. Not many people are going to trek along a big field to get from the DMV to a pharmacy because it is not a pedestrian friendly area. I think no one but the groundkeeper ever sees these graves. They were buried there all that time ago and the land just developed around them.
I live around an historical area that George Washington crossed to get to Valley forge. A lot of really beautiful colonial buildings but it's been ghettoized badly. Which sucks.
I do like cemeteries. i never got to check the old negro cemetery where I used to live. It was a patch of land donated by some high society lady. Where I am now there are a lot of very large old cemeteries. As long as it's day time it's mostly ok. The wall used to be broken but they fixed it and added a fence to keep Tyrone and his homies from climbing in there at night. There are some really big monuments and mausoleums. The cemetery has several locked gates but I don't see the point as you can walk in through the back. i am surprised they never gated that entrance.
There's a no trespassing sign that says it's protected by some security guy in New York that has probably been dead for over 50 years.
I would be real careful in abandoned buildings because of who may be there and how dangerous it could be structure-wise. Don't go alone. If you do, have your phone on speed dial to the police.
I did find a somewhat "forgotten" Revolutionary War monument a couple years ago in Bucks County PA. Two graves with one of the soldiers being about 17. Which was pretty sad to look at. It's in a field next to a strip mall but it's hard to see it because of the grass. Not many people are going to trek along a big field to get from the DMV to a pharmacy because it is not a pedestrian friendly area. I think no one but the groundkeeper ever sees these graves. They were buried there all that time ago and the land just developed around them.
I live around an historical area that George Washington crossed to get to Valley forge. A lot of really beautiful colonial buildings but it's been ghettoized badly. Which sucks.
I do like cemeteries. i never got to check the old negro cemetery where I used to live. It was a patch of land donated by some high society lady. Where I am now there are a lot of very large old cemeteries. As long as it's day time it's mostly ok. The wall used to be broken but they fixed it and added a fence to keep Tyrone and his homies from climbing in there at night. There are some really big monuments and mausoleums. The cemetery has several locked gates but I don't see the point as you can walk in through the back. i am surprised they never gated that entrance.
There's a no trespassing sign that says it's protected by some security guy in New York that has probably been dead for over 50 years.
I have never gone out of my way to track down and explore a particular location. However, if I see an abandoned structure that looks interesting while I am out doing something else, I will sometimes stop by to explore and/or take pictures/video.
I don't think any of the places I've poked around in would qualify for "urban" exploration, though. They have all been in rural areas so far. Abandoned mines, barns/farms, "ghost towns", etc
The urbex "community" (which I have never really engaged with other than through observation) definitely has its share of lolcows as well.
I don't think any of the places I've poked around in would qualify for "urban" exploration, though. They have all been in rural areas so far. Abandoned mines, barns/farms, "ghost towns", etc
The urbex "community" (which I have never really engaged with other than through observation) definitely has its share of lolcows as well.
A friend of mine did alot of it when we were long and i came a long more than once...
It wasnt so much about exploring, it was mostly about finding places for underground raves.
we were mostly in a rural area with dense forest around the former border. alot of Bunkers and old buildings there and nobody cares as long as you stay away from the border itself, there are still landmines there...
we once found some castle ruins that werent on any map, but a local friend later told us that they were known, just not on the map because they were to deep in the woods and to unimportant for tourism...
We also had a nice party in a very small former theme park. getting super high surrounded by rotting animatronical dwarf is fun....
there is not much urban exploring going on , the land value is so high that they dont let buildings in the city rot and Bunkers/historic buildings are used for tourism.
It wasnt so much about exploring, it was mostly about finding places for underground raves.
we were mostly in a rural area with dense forest around the former border. alot of Bunkers and old buildings there and nobody cares as long as you stay away from the border itself, there are still landmines there...
we once found some castle ruins that werent on any map, but a local friend later told us that they were known, just not on the map because they were to deep in the woods and to unimportant for tourism...
We also had a nice party in a very small former theme park. getting super high surrounded by rotting animatronical dwarf is fun....
there is not much urban exploring going on , the land value is so high that they dont let buildings in the city rot and Bunkers/historic buildings are used for tourism.
Just go squat in a library. No one goes there anymore.
I've wanted to do this myself for some time but in the city most places have guards so I'd need to go somewhere on the outskirts. I once worked in a factory that had an office block that was mostly abandoned since 2000 when they reduced headcount due to automation, I found old newspapers, purchase orders, stuff that was just piled up because nobody knew what to do with it. The building was pretty old and was probably unsafe. It was a good spot to eat lunch and wonder about the people that had worked there, built their careers and hopes and dreams only to walk out one day and never come back.
Watching youtube channels like the Proper People and Broken Window Theory is pretty chill, but they go to lengths to hide where they are to prevent vandals and I don't have the weaponised autism to figure out where these places are. I assume there's a private community where these things are discussed.
Watching youtube channels like the Proper People and Broken Window Theory is pretty chill, but they go to lengths to hide where they are to prevent vandals and I don't have the weaponised autism to figure out where these places are. I assume there's a private community where these things are discussed.
@DeadFish you might find something about urban exploring in the graffiti/street art thread.
streetart/graffiti thread
streetart/graffiti thread
Too many urban explorers are damaging and destroying the places they explore. It is a very annoying fad. Back in the day, it was such an underground activity, it didn't even have a name. Now, it is like tourists ruining Niagara Falls. And you know what pricks tourists can be.
Urban exploring was still edgy back around 2000-2001. Now, instagram thots do it.
Urban exploring was still edgy back around 2000-2001. Now, instagram thots do it.
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There’s an abandoned K-Mart near me that is probably crawling with heroin junkies. If I ever want to play a survival horror game irl I’d know where to go.
My husband and I have done a few dead malls and a few dead mansions. I personally like dead malls and department stores for some reason. Your best bet is just sticking to isolated areas.
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Queefy Stewart
Tess the GUNT Hoven
JULIANNA Aprileo
Corrisa "Hot Dog Water" Enneking
Pajeet and Hulking Greta of Troons Deathline fame
BRADLEY Manning
David "Tard Haka" Stone
and many more to travel to BEAUTIFUL and PROGRESSIVE downtown East St. Louis where they will be staying at the luxurious SPIVEY building!!
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East St. Louis
Ferguson
Dupo
Cahokia
Bellville
They MUST use either their own feet or public transportation to move to and from the Spivey each day as they "reach out" to their fellow BIPOCs!!
Season finale will involve a trip to Sulard Market where Tyrone, Boosie, and DayQuan will sell their organic, fair trade, unique, organic, all natural, organic, traditional, organic "crafts" they created with the help of our contestant. All organic. David Stone will provide on site LIVE!!!!! entertainment at the show's booth...organically.
Queefy Stewart
Tess the GUNT Hoven
JULIANNA Aprileo
Corrisa "Hot Dog Water" Enneking
Pajeet and Hulking Greta of Troons Deathline fame
BRADLEY Manning
David "Tard Haka" Stone
and many more to travel to BEAUTIFUL and PROGRESSIVE downtown East St. Louis where they will be staying at the luxurious SPIVEY building!!
YAYYYYY!
Our producers will gift each participant with a cool hundy in cash. Their mission is to show us ALLLL how to enact restorative justice and act as social workers for the local populations of:
East St. Louis
Ferguson
Dupo
Cahokia
Bellville
They MUST use either their own feet or public transportation to move to and from the Spivey each day as they "reach out" to their fellow BIPOCs!!
Season finale will involve a trip to Sulard Market where Tyrone, Boosie, and DayQuan will sell their organic, fair trade, unique, organic, all natural, organic, traditional, organic "crafts" they created with the help of our contestant. All organic. David Stone will provide on site LIVE!!!!! entertainment at the show's booth...organically.
I used to be an over-the-road flatbed driver. It afforded me a lot of opportunities to creep around abandoned properties in rust belt cities. I loved it. I really like imagining what life was like as people built and lived and worked. Echoes of the past and all that.
Leave the homeless alone and you'll probably be fine, if you're male.
Leave the homeless alone and you'll probably be fine, if you're male.
You'll get killed by a hobo.
There's also the off-chance you'll get charged for trespassing. Urban exploring sounds like it'd be cool to do, but it's a bit too risky for me outside of minecraft.
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