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Another site from my trip to Naples earlier in the year - shout to @The_Raw for letting me know about this one. You can pay for a tour of this place, but if you turn up on a sleep Monday, you can find your own way round if you are that way inclined. It made for a great wander as old Italian hill...

The Irbene Radio Telescopes (RT-32 and RT-16) are located near the abandoned military town of Irbene, between the cities of Ventspils and Cape Kolka in western Latvia. Today they form part of the Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre. A couple of years ago we managed to visit the area...

This might be somewhat skirting the borderline of the 'no residentials' rule however it's a setup much like the very well known General Store in Banham which has been posted a lot previously. Manor Farm in Magor, South Wales comprises of a partially surviving 15th Century house, incorporated...

This house, built in 1946, is located in a small Belgian town. The former dentist's office is located at the rear. According to information online, this practice was last run by two dentists. Unfortunately, it is not possible to determine when the practice closed. The building can also be found...

History Hanley Town Hall in Albion Square , Hanley, is a grade 2 listed building designed by Robert Scrivner. The cost of building totalled £20,000 and it was officially opened in 1869 as the queens hotel. By the 1880s the company running the hotel ran into financial difficulties and the...

Poggioreale is a ghost town located in the Belice Valley of western Sicily, Italy. It was originally a thriving agricultural community, but in 1968, a devastating earthquake struck the region, destroying the town and forcing its residents to relocate to a safer area nearby. The ruins of...

During 2024 I found myself with six months off work to do as I please and we decided to go on a pretty epic road trip around Namibia. One of our stops was to visit the fairly well known Ghost town of Kolmanskop as it is somewhere i've wanted to see for years. Yeah, it's permission and you pay...

Old Town Hall The Old Town Hall is the only surviving purpose-built Victorian town hall in Tyne and Wear and is one of only five comparable listed Victorian town halls in the North East. The Grade II listed building was the council headquarters for almost 120 years, before the council...

Introduction Here are some old photos I took of Oldham Town hall back in February 2013, Sadly I didn't take any external photos at the time. Information & History The town hall building had stood empty and disused from 1977 and re-opened in 2016. The building at the time of the photos was...

September 2024 Visited with @Mr Budge and @MotionlessMike, If you follow the river River Wye you will eventually reach Buxton's Pavilion Gardens, it is in these gardens that the river drops underground and travels beneath the town, their is little to see of the river, still only a small stream...

1. The History Like my first China report, absolutely no history about this specific place, just about the village it is located in (Shuhe’s Gucheng district) which goes like this: “Shuhe is an ancient village in the Yunnan province of China, located 4 kilometres north-west of the better-known...

Hello everyone, I’m on my summer break and I’ve recently started exploring my area more and gotten hooked on the idea of urbex. The only issue is that I can’t drive and I’m mainly surrounded by fields. Since I’m fairly rural I’m hoping I’ll find some old tunnels underground or something of that...

It's been an absolute hot minute since this happened, but better late than never? 😬 Same idea as the other 7 Deep Level Shelters under London, a twin pair of 427m (ish) long tunnels built underneath existing tube stations from 1940-1942 by the Home Office to provide shelter capacity under...

Came across this eerie ex-soviet mining town in the Archipelago of Svalbard, which is actually owned by Norway. It was the northernmost permanent settlement on the earth and the history of it is fascinating. It was meant to be a showcase of the best of the Soviet Union for the whole world to...

Looking to visit Heath Town Baths, unsure if it’s still worth visiting after the fire of June this year. Has anyone gotten in since then? I fear they may have stepped up security significantly or the building is just too fire damaged to enter. Let me know!