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Urban Exploration thread!
If you like or live near any abandoned old/creepy/industrial buildings and want to see or have taken pictures of them, this is the thread for you!
Post here with any of your abandoned/haunted/forgotten sites! Just because it is titled urban exploration does not mean it needs to be near the city. Farmhouses, mansions, power plants, etc. are welcome.

Please make your post in the following style;
Include a little blurb with some history and (rough) location of the site you explored. You do not need to include the exact location. Have the images hosted in an easily accesible gallery using flickr or photobucket. Please keep your post in this thread limited to 2 or 3 "teaser" images and a link to that gallery.


Please note that trespassing is ILLEGAL and I am not in any way condoning it.


This main post will serve as a index. As new posts with photos are added, I will index them here too. If I somehow miss your post, please PM me and alert me to it.



USA:
KY, GoneTomorrows Abandoned Places
KY, unspecified by Weston.
MD, Henryton TB hospital Updated 10-1-11
MD, Bartgis Bros Paper Mill Updated 10-1-11
MD, Fort Howard Veterans Hospital
MD, Jacob Tome School for Boys
MD, Hagerstown Power Plant
MD, Gaslight Square and Tower
MD, Dundalk Pure Rye Distillery
MD, Victor Cullen Center
MD, Sydenham Hospital for Communicable Diseases
MD, Glenn Dale Hospital
MD, Frightmares Farmhouse and Barn Newest!
MD, Westminster Farmhouse Newest!
MD, Crownsville Insane Asylum Newest!
MD, Rosewood Hospital Center Newest!
PA, Littlestown Brick Company Newest!
PA, Abandoned Gettysburg House
Newest!
PA, Centralia
PA, York County Prison
PA, Williams Grove Amusement Park
CA, Fort Point
NY, Rochester Abandoned Subway


Canada:
Alberta, Abandoned Farm House

Montreal, Old Port

UK:
Unspecified, Abandoned Tomato Farm


New Zealand:
Abandoned Camp
Edited by robchaos - Yesterday at 6:24 pm
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i have a baller dairy near me that is abandoned (nicknamed scary dairy). There is also a barn by it. It is actually really cool and i was thinking about going there to take a picture for the EVGA conpetition (but i think its over now). maybe i will still go and post some pics for ya
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cool set. i still need to go around my city with my camera before i start doing urban exploration.
    
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I don't have any shooting to do for the paper this weekend, and there's a couple places I've been dying to get to. Probably shoot them with film, though, I bought a box of Portra NC for some reason and need to shoot a roll through to see if I like it.
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I recommend it You get to see a lot of cool stuff you would have missed normally.
Depending on the building and light levels it can also be creepy and give you a little adrenaline rush . Everyone who chooses to participate in this thread, just be careful, and don't get stabbed by a hobo!
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I recommend it You get to see a lot of cool stuff you would have missed normally.
Depending on the building and light levels it can also be creepy and give you a little adrenaline rush . Everyone who chooses to participate in this thread, just be careful, and don't get stabbed by a hobo!
Hah, you make it sound like I've never done this before.
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Not really Urban Decay but here's a shot from inside an old farm house.

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Me and my buddy visited Henryton Hospital today. It was built in the early 1900's as a Tuberculosis hospital for blacks (back in the days of segregation). and in 1965 also operated as a sanitarium for the developmentally disabled. This was one place that I really wish I had a 10-24 or a fisheye. The rooms were so tight and I got some shots as best I could, but I only had my one sb-600 flash, and it was so dimly lit. I didn't want to bump up exposure and get rid of the dark creepy ambiance though, hopefully these look good.
The safest way to get there is to pass through a train tunnel to get to the main driveway for the Henryton Complex.



Trimming most of the photos out of this post to reduce load times.

1. The front of Henryton (original is a 81MP 10 shot pano)

2. Around back at Henryton (original is a 55 MP 5 shot pano)




My Henryton photos (including my most recent trip) can be found here.



Comments, critique, or input is appreciated. Thanks for looking!


Full res images are available upon request.



It is such a shame what vandals and idiot kids have done to something that could have been such a creepy somber atmosphere.
Edited by robchaos - 10/1/11 at 10:45pm
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I'm gonna go ahead and ask if you would please not post tens of pictures at that size. It takes an unbearably long time to load on even a 6Mb connection.
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Yeah i know...I did this in the rate the picture thread too. I keep forgetting to change LR settings to smaller files for web use after I use it to export 20x30 print quality stuff to send to the lab I'm going to edit out my post and redo everything.
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