World Wide Urban Exploration

Urban exploration is around the world. Find a location or group of explorers near you.

There are 118 posts filed in World Wide Urban Exploration (this is page 19 of 20).

Modern Church Abandoned in Oregon

The Abandoned LEC – A blog that started to be about an abandoned set of buildings in Oregon. Another blog, LEC Then and Now, has photos of rural exploration, set up as then and now posts.

This is a history of the building from The Abandoned LEC:

I am dedicating this blog to The Abandoned, a huge complex of buildings which once housed a mega church in rural Wilsonville, Oregon.

The Callahan Center was originally built by the State of Oregon as a rehabilitation center for people recovering from injuries on the job.

The building was eventually bought by a church called the Living Enrichment Center. When the church folded amidst financial scandal, it was abandoned.

It has stood empty for many years. Over that span it has been vandalized and looted.

Yet the beauty of its rare architecture still shines through the shambles of abuse and disrepair.

She also has a blog, Random Trash.

Roadside Architecture

Roadside Architecture: Another woman who likes old buildings, odd buildings, ghost signs and roadside attractions in general. Visit her main site where the photos are organized into subject and then location, or find her on Flickr. Based in the US so it is US only.

The blogroll for other roadside blogs, from Roadside Architecture.

The Sowie Mountains Research Group

A research project done by explorers in Poland. I watched a report about this on a TV show about Poland this morning. It would be interesting to find new tunnels and see what is left of the construction. From what I saw, each time they find a new possible tunnel they can not link it back to the beginning as the tunnels were all blown up at the end of the war in an effort to keep everything secret. But, who can resist a mystery, especially one in your own backyard.

Quoted from the main page of the Sowie Mountains Research Group site:

It is 1943. The Third Reich begins to suffer heavy losses in men at the eastern front. At the same time the Allies start to bomb earth manufacturing and research centres all over Third Reich area. Adolf Hitler with his collaborators takes a decision to begin work on Wunderwaffe ( wonder weapon ). Because production of any arms in earth factories is unsafe, it has been decided to move armaments factories and research centres underground. The venue chosen is Eulegebirge ( in Polish Góry Sowie – The Sowie Mountains ). In this area wide scale geological and construction works go on from 1943 to 1945. The questions are: What for? What is to be found there? 64 years after the Second World War Sowiogórska Grupa Poszukiwawcza ( the Sowie Mountains Research Group ) – SGP is founded. The group whose aim is to explain what there is to be discovered. We are here to reveal the history and mysteries of The Sowie Mountain underground system and to show them to a wider group of people.

Canada Rural and Urban Exploration

One of the projects I am working on is a web directory with sites relating to urban/ rural exploration and abandoned sites in Canada (the rest of the world as well but it’s a massive project to tackle all of it at once). It’s far from ready to be shown off. But, I do have a list of sites for Canadian explorers and those who just like to look at old houses, places and things.