Urban Exploration, Popular Stories

Ten incredible airplane boneyards – the places where old military planes and airliners alike go to die...

Urbex from down under kicks off this week's 'coolest' roundup, which also features links to some killer art, educational titbits, and a life-size Stormtrooper cake!

Once the playground of couples and people keen to indulge in pleasures of the flesh, these Japanese love hotels are now left abandoned and decaying...

A deserted, lonely theme park of both epic and micro proportions...

Exploring an abandoned doll factory is a fascinating journey not only into the bowels of a derelict space but also back in time to a largely bygone era...

Brothels are hardly ever genuinely cheerful places. Garish at best, they get downright creepy, cold and lonely when abandoned. We've found seven examples.

Nothing evokes strange nostalgia like the skeletal remains of an abandoned and derelict roller coaster. We've found ten that reek of danger and decay...

There's a secret buried in the vast Florida swamps and it's a big one...

Built in 1856, the Northampton State Hospital was a shining example of a mental health institution before it was abandoned and demolished...

What's the history of this old building? Was it an orphanage? Or maybe a mental asylum? Let's go exploring and find out more.

Metropolitan State Hospital in Massachusetts was the site of a grisly murder in 1980. Pieces of the victim have never been found.

Explore seven abandoned zoos around the world that are more than a little eerie...

Visiting an abandoned and decaying slaughterhouse is more than a little eerie, even in the middle of the day – but see for yourself.

From strange engagements and 'alien' skulls to crocodile pampering and tidal waves in the skies... If it's hot (and 'out there'!) it's here!

Ten haunting yet strangely fascinating abandoned water parks from around the world. Urbex at its best!

Exploring the abandoned and dilapidated Soviet military barracks where troops were stationed in Cold War East Germany.

Amazing pictures of the old Fleet River, a secret waiting to be explored underneath the streets of London...

Amazing snapshot of resorts, once playgrounds for people on vacation, now long since left to rack and ruin...

Incredible images of the abandoned Cold War listening station of Teufelsberg, which towers over West Berlin...

Amazing images of a 160-year-old castle, now in ruins...