Cool pics of urban exploring, abandoned machines and stuff
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Planet Claire said:
Did a bit of this early last year. Here are a couple from the mental asylums we visited:
West Park - Padded cell
Imagine going into a padded cell in an old abandoned lunatic asylum, taking your pictures and stuff and then hearing a 'click' behind you. You look around and the door is closed. You try to open it but you cannot. You bang on the walls, but nobody can hear you...West Park - Padded cell
All thet remains of a 16th century Spanish colonial church hidden deep in the jungle. The conquistador Francisco Pizarro, the buccaneer Henry Morgan and the privateer Francis Drake all stood on those steps. Nothing there now except trees, mosquitoes, jaguars and snakes. Takes four hours of trekking through the forest to get there. Planning to go back with a metal detector...
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CrashTD said:
Not really urban as its in the middle of a desert in Turkmenistan but this is 'The Door to Hell'. Them little dots are people. Russians went looking for gas and it went a bit pear shaped in the 70s. Pics were taken this year
Wow, my list of places I have to visit before I die just got a little bit longer.wiki said:
To avoid poisonous gas discharge, it was decided to burn the gas. Geologists had hoped the fire would go out in a few days but it has been burning ever since.
Ditto, that is amazing! I love it.
Urban Sports said:
Adz The Rat said:
Me too, more on the steam train please!
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Reminds me when I went exploring some old overgrown concrete pillboxes on some clifftops in south wales when I were a lad. Crawled into one low doorway and feeling a familiar fullness in the tummy region realised I needed to 'go'. I dropped my keks and squeezed out a foot-long steaming cable, laying it just inside the doorway. I had to exit carefully, like a game of Twister, to avoid splodging an elbow or foot into the glistening mass. I stand up in the sunlight outside and adjust my clothing. Then I spot another explorist. He is clearly on a day out, camera, sun hat, map in plastic case. 'Hello' he says. 'Hullo,' I return. He eyes the doorway I have just scrambled out of. Suddenly I know exactly what is about to happen. I edge past him towards the path. 'That looks interesting,' he says, nodding towards the doorway. 'Yes, be careful as you go in, it's a bit slippery.'
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LukeBird said:
Those train pics! 
+1!
Abandoned lighthouse in the jungle:
View from the hilltop:
Had to get past the gatekeeper:
The structure:
The doorway:
The staircase:
This place had a really creepy feel about it - an old lighthouse abandoned, swallowed by jungle, very difficult to find, at the top of a hill on an island, so hot and humid you could practically drink the air, very quiet except for the distant roar of the surf on a reef, and full of Very Large spiders.
View from the hilltop:
Had to get past the gatekeeper:
The structure:
The doorway:
The staircase:
This place had a really creepy feel about it - an old lighthouse abandoned, swallowed by jungle, very difficult to find, at the top of a hill on an island, so hot and humid you could practically drink the air, very quiet except for the distant roar of the surf on a reef, and full of Very Large spiders.
Original Poster said:
The lighthouse is amazing.
Although you wouldn't get me in it, mind.
Must admit I didn't climb up inside it either - I was on my own and could just imagine the iron door clanging shut and me being stuck inside...! Although you wouldn't get me in it, mind.
Edited by Original Poster on Wednesday 22 September 13:43
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