Arriving at the site late one night, things were looking promising… Fast-forward half an hour and my face is pressed up to the glass of the turbine hall windows. A large smile is creeping across my face as I make out the silhouette of a massive turbine…
It is not often you have the opportunity to explore a former WW2 German V2 rocket store, especially one that has been forgotten and remains safely hidden in the French countryside. But here you go, the V2 rocket stores…
Paris is internationally famous for one thing in the urban exploration world – “The Catacombs” (rightly or wrongly so… I’m not sure) and this report is going to cover one small part of the network – La Carrière Des Capucins.
St Martin, the most interesting of several phantom metro stations in Paris, two levels, four platforms, active lines and rarely seen relics of a forgotten time in the Paris metro’s history.
Battersea Power Station; no doubt it is an icon of the London skyline, it is pretty impressive from the banks of the Thames but standing inside is something else. This place is massive. Even though it is now a shell and a shadow of its former self, Battersea is still a really impressive building. And for those who think laterally, this place contains a few surprises.
Ten Meters in diameter, red brick lined, 100 years old and a mission I’ll never forget, the Rankine Hydro Electric Power Station, Niagara.
The decision was made, we were going to hit up the Rankine Hydro Power Station tailrace tunnel. So Nel58, Micro, Controlman and myself packed our cameras, waterproof gear, passports and headed for the bright lights of Niagara Falls. Read the rest of this entry »
Ashio: Japan’s largest copper producer for over 100 years, a forced labor camp for allied POWs during WW2 and the source of Japans worst ever industrial pollution incident and now an UrbEx wonderland. Power stations, refineries, houses, shops, mines and more, an entire mining town abandoned to the elements and those keen enough to visit.
Carved deep into the cliffs of some the most rugged country in Australia, access to this abandoned hydro power station is not a trivial exercise. Following in the footsteps of well known explorers such as Diode, Predator and dsankt, the following is a record of my exploration of ‘THE BARRON’.
100 years of Australian rail history and in the same condition as the day they were closed over 17 years ago, the Townsville railway workshops.
