Newest Links

• Port Arthur Historic Site (Australia) The Port Arthur Historic Site encompasses over thirty buildings, ruins and restored period furnished homes set in 40 hectares of landscaped grounds.
• Satan’s Laundromat photolog of New York, with an emphasis on urban decay, strange signage, and general weirdness.
  

  Abandoned Asylums and Hospitals

• Abandoned Asylums
• Angels in the Architecture Northern Michigan Asylum in Traverse City, Michigan. Rural decay in Northern Michigan.
• Bartonville State Hospital from the Ghosts of the Prairie page.
• The Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England
• The Castle on the Hill Danvers State Hospital
• Clinton Valley Center abandoned asylum in Michigan, now demolished
• Clinton Valley Center more pre-demolition photos
• Danvers State Insane Asylum very nice site, also has videos of Danvers on YouTube.
• Danvers photos from Jeremy Barnard photography
• Dark Passage
• Dixmont Insane Asylum
• Eastern State Penitentiary As seen on MTV’s Fear. The penitentiary was closed in 1971. It is listed as a historical landmark and is open for tours.
• Essex Mountain Sanatorium
• Fairfield Hills State Hospital in Newtown Connecticut. This hospital was used on MTV’s Fear.
• Fairfield Hills photos
• Historic Asylums Message Board old info, no new posts since 2006
• King’s Park Psychiatric Center – A Documentation
• Kirkbride Buildings
• Light Into Darkness scenes from an abandoned asylum (Danvers)
• Noho’s Abandoned Asylum More pictures of North Street Mental Hospital in Northhampton, MA.
• Pilgrim State Asylum
• St. Louis City Hospital
• Sunland Hospital in Tallahassee, Florida
• Tales of Eloise Eloise Hospital aka Wayne County Asylum in Detroit
• Titicut Follies info on a 1967 documentary on the abuses that occured at a Massachusetts asylum
• Waverly Hills Sanatorium wikipedia entry
• Vintage Postcards of Hospitals in Hamilton, Ontario
• Vintage Postcards of Hospitals in Worcester, Massachusetts
  

  Amusement Parks, Water Parks, and Zoos

• Defunct Amusement Parks
• Idora Park abandoned amusement park in Ohio
  

  Cemeteries and Catacombs

• Adam’s Stull Page
• Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery An excellent site on what is called Chicago’s most haunted cemetery. pics
• Old Cemeteries, Arsenic, and Health Safety
• Sedlec Ossuary
• Spelunking the empire of death Salon.com article on exploring the catacombs of Paris and the cataphile scene
• Spider Gates Cemetery in Leicester, MA. 8 pics and a map.
• Spider Gates Cemetery investigation into the rumours surrounding this cemetery. Nice pictures.
• Stull Cemetery Background information on Stull Cemetery on Ghosts of the Prairie’s Haunted Kansas page.
• Underground Paris Photo tour of the Paris catacombs.
  

  Farmhouses and Other Rural Ruins

• Deserted Farms 90 black and white photos of abandoned farmhouses in Iceland
  

  Ghost Towns

• Ghost Towns of the West Ghost towns listed by state.
• The Legend of Dudleytown, Connecticut
• Monument Gallery pictures of ghost towns
• NJ Pine Barrens exploring the ghost towns of southern New Jersey
  

  Hudson Valley Ruins

• Bannerman Island History
• Bannerman Castle Trust
• Hudson Valley Network – Historic Site
• Hudson Valley Ruins Photographs and background information on several ruins in the Hudson Valley area. There are also photos of Bannerman’s castle illuminated at night.
• Xydexx’s Exploring and Modern Ruins Bannerman’s Castle, Briarcliff Lodge
  

  Other Modern Ruins

• Abandoned House of the Week Metro Times (Detroit) hasn’t been updated since 2005
• Abandoned Memories Wayne County Child Development Center
• Among the Ruins pics of buildings destroyed in the Chicago fire of 1871.
• Barbados ruins
• Blackshock: dark soul of Prague photos of dark industrial scenes and landscapes
• Cincinnati’s Abandoned Subway
• Dead Malls
• Desolation photos of abandoned buildings in Italy
• The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit click on “Tour Detroit”
• Forgotten Michigan
• Industrial Archaeology
• Industrial Archeology in California
• Kudzu Covered Houses in Georgia
• Lost America Night photography of the abandoned roadside west
• Military Ruins Bunkers, tunnels, cannons, arsenals in Galicia, the northwest coast of Spain.
• Missile Bases for sale Have a couple of million to spare and a desire to live somewhere really unique?
• Modern Ruins Project
• Mustard Gas Party photographic essays
• Pacific Electric Subway abandoned subway line in Los Angeles
• Phillip Buehler’s Modern Ruins A photographic essay on the abandoned, decaying artifacts of the twentieth century.
• Provincial House at LaSalette Shrine destroyed by fire in 1999.
• Rash Reflections Photography pics of abandoned buildings in New York and New Jersey (click on Acid Kittie)
• Roadside Art Online: Ruins 11 pics
• Ruins in Japan
• Standing but not operating abandoned amusement parks
• Side O’ Lamb Asbury Park in New Jersey
• Subterranea Britannica UK Cold War defenses
• Tim Feresten – Photographs Michigan Central Railroad Station, industrial interiors, and New Orleans after Katrina
• Underground Kent
  

  Prisons

• Eastern State Penitentiary official site
  

  Tunnels, Subways and Drains

• Abandoned Subway Stations in NYC
• Abandoned Tube Stations in London
• alt.college.tunnels on google Groups
• Cataphiles.org
• Cave Clan Australia
• Cincinnati’s Abandoned Subway
• Closed stations in Paris’ Subway
• Dezafekt underground quarries of Paris, tunnels, subway,catacombs, pictures of the urban underground.
• Entrances to Subterranean Tunnels
• Exploring the Twin Cities
• Iowa State Steam Tunnels
• New York City Underground from nationalgeographic.com
• Notes from Underground City Pages (Twin Cities, MN) article on exploring drains and tunnels
• Promenades souterraines [French] [English version] the forbidden French underground
• Remnants of Abandoned Stations, Tunnels, and Station Entrances found on the MBTA
• Secret Tunnels used by Knights Templar and Illuminati in Hertford
• Tunnels of Vanderbilt University
• Underground Tunnels list of tunnels in the US from the Bureau of Reclamation (deleted from their site but still archived at archive.org)
• uk.rec.subterranea at Google Groups
• Undercity NYC tunnels and some useful info for would be urban explorers
• Underground History Disused Stations on London’s Underground
• Virginia Tech Urban Exploration
• Williamson’s Tunnels tunnels built under Liverpool by 19th century eccentric businessman Joseph Williamson
  

  Urban Exploration Group and Message Boards

• Action Squad Minneapolis urban adventures
• Bangor Explorer’s Guild Bangor, Maine
• Boston Urban Exploration LiveJournal community
• Columbus Underground urban exploration in Ohio
• Infiltration Infiltration: The zine about going places you’re not supposed to go.
• Jinx Magazine urban adventure.
• Lost Destinations exploration in New Jersey
• Lost Indiana
• Newfoundland Urban Exploration Society
• Nite Crawlers UE in Centralia, WA
• Offkilter urban exploration in England
• Ohio Exploration Society
• Ohio Lost Ohio’s forgotten places
• Ohio Trespassers
• Online and Underground Salon article on tunneling and exploring abandoned buildings.
• pdXplore LiveJournal community
• pdXplore
• Rural Ruin LiveJournal community
• Sleepy City UE in Canada.
• Under NY
• Urban Adventure
• Urban Adventures in Rotterdam
• Urban Decay LiveJournal community
• Urban Exploration Web Ring
• Urban Explorers Network
• Urban Exploration Australia
• Urban Exploration Front LiveJournal community
• Urban Exploration Resource – Canada
• Urban Lens UE in New York city
• Urban Speleology Minneapolis based.
• The Wanderer Forum
• Zone-Tour: Database of Urban Exploration
  

  Misc.

• Baltimore Ghosts Forgotten buildings in Baltimore
• Castles for Sale
• Castles of the United States There are over 100 castles listed on this site, most with a picture.
• Forgotten NY
• Frederick Wiseman’s Titicut Follies info on Titicut Follies , a documentary filmed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. (1967)
• Lithic: Unusual Sites in New England
• Lost in Jersey
• Lovecraftian Sites in New England
• Night Photography by Larrie Thomson
• Photographing Ruins photo.net article by Shaun O’Boyle (oboylephoto.com)
• A Record of Excursions and Adventures in Massachusetts Stone Circles, Dolmen, Chambers, Caves, and other oddities
• Roads to Ruins guide to the medieval castles of Germany with hundreds of photographs and maps to the locations of the castles with histories and travelers information.
• The Marsden Archive
  The Marsden Archive apparently sells prints of Simon Marsden’s photographs but you have to order their brochure (free) to find out what is available and neither the brochure nor the website lists prices. A calendar and greeting cards are also available.
• Simon Marsden
• Photographing Ruins
• Weird New Jersey
  

  Warnings – The Hazards of Urban Exploration

• Histoplasmosis is a potentially fatal disease caused by a fungus found in soil and material contaminated with bird or bat droppings
  

  Related Books

  Asylums
• Eloise: Poorhouse, Farm, Asylum and Hospital by Patricia Ibbotson
• Medicine and Magnificence: British Hospital and Asylum Architecture, 1660-1815 by Christine StevensonHudson River Valley Mansions
• Phantoms of the Hudson Valley : The Glorious Estates of a Lost Era
  by Monica Randall
• American Castles: A Pictorial History by Amy Handy and John BurdickSimon Marsden
  Marsden uses infrared photography to capture the haunting qualities of the ruins he photographs.
  Unfortunately, most of Marsden’s books are now out of print.
• Beyond the Wall : The Lost World of East Germany
• The Haunted Realm : Echoes from Beyond the Tomb
• In Ruins: the Once Great Houses of Ireland out of print but Amazon usually has a used copy for sale
• The Journal of a Ghosthunter
• Venice: City of Haunting Dreams