Forbidden Places

[Said1]

If you like architecture and urban decay as much as I do, this site has something for everyone. From inside insane asylums of the world to railway stations, this site has everything- all abandoned by the way.

http://www.forbidden-places.net/explo1.php

[hjmick]

If you like architecture and urban decay as much as I do, this site has something for everyone. From inside insane asylums of the world to railway stations, this site has everything- all abandoned by the way.

http://www.forbidden-places.net/explo1.php

Read the book Creepers (http://www.amazon.com/Creepers-David-Morrell/dp/159315237X) by David Morrell. An excellent piece of fiction that takes place in an abandoned hotel. You can read it in eight hours.

From Publishers Weekly:


Morrell takes a creative kind of breaking-and-entering as the premise for his latest thriller (after Nightscape), a gripping story that demands to be read in a single sitting. Disguising himself as a journalist, Frank Balenger, ex-U.S. Army Ranger and Iraqi war veteran, joins a group of "Creepers," also known as infiltrators, urban explorers or city speleologists—men and women who outfit themselves with caving gear to break into and explore buildings that have long been closed up and abandoned. Though what they're doing is technically illegal, participants pride themselves on never stealing or destroying anything they find at these sites. They take only photographs and aim to leave no footprints. Balenger joins a group of four: the leader, Professor Robert Conklin, high school teacher Vincent Vanelli and graduate students Rick and Cora Magill. This gang infiltrates the Paragon Hotel, an abandoned, seven-story, pyramidal Asbury Park, N.J., structure built in 1901 by eccentric, hemophiliac Morgan Carlisle. Balenger and the professor have a special agenda, but the others are there simply for the thrills. Things quickly begin to unravel in life-threatening ways once the intrepid infiltrators penetrate the building—they aren't the only ones creeping around the spooky hotel. Morrell delivers first-rate, suspenseful storytelling once again.

[hjmick]

Here's a link to an online "zine" about creeping: http://www.infiltration.org/

[Said1]

Here's a link to an online "zine" about creeping: http://www.infiltration.org/

Thanks, I haven't seen that one.

One of these days I have to get down to East St. Louis, it's a real Mecca for this kind of stuff. I'm not so interested in the factories as I am in the abandoned business that still have their period signage styles and architecture. I have a photo somewhere of a an abandoned gas station that still has it's 50's (there or about) square, wing style lights. And the bridges, lots of old bridges there. And the train yards......


there isn't a lot of stuff like that in this city. If it's abandoned, it better be gone, clean and landscaped as soon as possible.

This isn't it, but from the same city:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v738/Said1/east03.jpg

This one from E. St. Louis too
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v738/Said1/neighborhoods14.jpg

[PostmodernProphet]

I couldn't find anything on it on the web, but we had a building here in Holland, Michigan called the Western Tool Works.....closed down during the depression and sat empty until 2005 when it was torn down....the city sent the local museum through to inventory and catalog everything.....they say that everything was just as it was the day the employees left.....lunchboxes on the counter, tools and unfinished work on the benches, even the timeclock and punch cards showing all the people that punched out on the last day....

[crin63]

Those websites were pretty cool. I loved going into old facilities and exploring. Older power plants always had areas that looked abandon and some actually had sections that were.

Redondo Beach Generating Station in CA has had several films shot there because it had 4 old generators that were shut down in the 80's I believe. I haven't been there since 2003 but there still video and movie props laying around. The fight scene at the end of, "Gone in 60 seconds" with Nicholas Cage was shot there, Jet Li was filming, " The One" there last time I was working there. The equipment was so old that with a little work it looked futuristic.

We found an old munitions plant and went through some of the buildings. I love exploring like that.

[Mr. P]

Wow! I had no idea that something I've been doing most of my life had a name or there were so many other folks doing it too!

I am a bit different though, I like exploring in rural areas instead of urban...old farm houses and such. Running across an old cemetery is aways BIG bonus!

[crin63]

Wow! I had no idea that something I've been doing most of my life had a name or there were so many other folks doing it too!

I am a bit different though, I like exploring in rural areas instead of urban...old farm houses and such. Running across an old cemetery is aways BIG bonus!

I love old cemetarys also, particularly in New England or where I have ancestors buried. Me and wife always stop to look around old cemetarys. You get a sense of how much people were loved and missed.

[Abbey Marie]

I love old cemetarys also, particularly in New England or where I have ancestors buried. Me and wife always stop to look around old cemetarys. You get a sense of how much people were loved and missed.

Me too, Crin. My husband has ancestors from as far back as the Revolutionary War buried in a cemetary in Maine. We visit all of them every summer.

The best "cemetary" I ever visited though, was Westminster Abbey. The antiquity of the graves is amazing. But the most uplifting part was the Christian faith exhibited in the inscriptions. They truly left me feeling comforted and aware of my faith.

[Said1]

Wow! I had no idea that something I've been doing most of my life had a name or there were so many other folks doing it too!

I am a bit different though, I like exploring in rural areas instead of urban...old farm houses and such. Running across an old cemetery is aways BIG bonus!

I used to do that with my grandmother. She lived in the country, not far from the Canada/US boarder and to used bring me all over. She had everything mapped out and new the history of each place. Being a teacher, she also had a special interest in old school houses. The roads and pathways that were swallowed up by the St. Lawrence expansion was pretty cool too.

[crin63]

Me too, Crin. My husband has ancestors from as far back as the Revolutionary War buried in a cemetary in Maine. We visit all of them every summer.

The best "cemetary" I ever visited though, was Westminster Abbey. The antiquity of the graves is amazing. But the most uplifting part was the Christian faith exhibited in the inscriptions. They truly left me feeling comforted and aware of my faith.

Someday I have to get to Holyoke, Mass. My family moved there from Italy probably in the 1700's. Arlington National Cemetery was overwhelming. Nearly every monument brought a tear to my eye. Princeton Cemetery is pretty awesome. It has allot of historical figures buried there. I went to about a dozen cemetery's in 7 states when I went on a New England trip in 2002.

[dan]

This site is a great resource for urban exploration:

http://www.uer.ca/

I particularly like the photo section of the forum. I also like that the forum is separated out by region. I learned a lot about some local abandoned places that I didn't know about.

[Said1]

This site is a great resource for urban exploration:

http://www.uer.ca/

I particularly like the photo section of the forum. I also like that the forum is separated out by region. I learned a lot about some local abandoned places that I didn't know about.

Thanks, Dan. I found Ottawa at site.

This is where I've walked my last three dogs and spent a lot of time 'socializing'

http://www.uer.ca/locations/viewgal.asp?locid=25405&galid=20864

[red states rule]

Me too, Crin. My husband has ancestors from as far back as the Revolutionary War buried in a cemetary in Maine. We visit all of them every summer.

The best "cemetary" I ever visited though, was Westminster Abbey. The antiquity of the graves is amazing. But the most uplifting part was the Christian faith exhibited in the inscriptions. They truly left me feeling comforted and aware of my faith.

Now you did it Abbey.

Now you will be a recipient of MFM's grave maintance program :lol: