The unseen about urban exploring, rooftops and abandoned industrie

	Sea of Power How much coal would you need to run al this ?
	Prison 15H My experience is now that it's much harder to get IN a prison than to get out of one ;-)
	Fer Boron 12.000 km off tunnels on different levels, partly flooded; and yes this is no typing mistake ;-)
	The Odeon Three 3 cinemas lrft behind in an old theatre just waiting for their fate.
	The Victoria Palace The only performers in here were some pigeons.
	Le Chai Du Vin Warehouse to store wine. No "mise en bouteille au Château" in here ;-)
	Cinema Pigeon 25 years have passed after the last curtain has fallen
	U-verlagerung When it is war you use every available facility to hide your stuff and create factory's. Even if it is a wet disused iron mine.
	Eisenerzbergwerk 6 different levels separated 50 meters from each other; water ingress; iron that eats away the oxygen; holes in the floor going several hundred meters down... In short a place where no man wants to stay more than 5 minutes; but I needed 60 hours to only see a small part of this mine.
	Le Trou Perdu A quarry a stone's throw away from Paris without a single tag or graffiti. How much luck can you have ?
	City Morgue The building died together with his last customer
	Hörsaal Another building whose purpose is outdated and obsolete
	The Lion King After 13 hours our quest was over but we didn't see it all. This quarry has 3 different levels and corridors up to 15 meter high.
	Carrière L'escalier 5 floors of endless corridors to collect chalk
	The Wine Quarry The only thing we found was vinegar and fungi, nothing which was really tasty.
	Kraftwerk H only the controlroom with a personnel bunker was saved from demolition.
	Forlasita Laghetto # 1 No need to bring your swimwear to this place. The place is closed until further notice.
	Roef Theater And no I didn't made a spelling mistake ;-)
	Labo Herzog What you see here is a heavy steel lined leaded vault containing some radioactive element.
	Theater PP From theater to moviehouse; it didn't work out so well.
	Centrale EKO Another one bites the dust. Green power seems to be the future.
	Water Works Worn out water treatment plant
	Kino Treize 13 cinemas under one roof and still no profit to make.
	Heavy Metal After some battle with the Chinese; nearly 4000 people lost their job.
	Plateaustollen Not everything that is underground starts below your feet. Sometimes you need to conquer a mountain first.
	Powerplant Maybach Just another abandonned thermique powerplant
	Hydrierwerk Half collapsed lime quarry
	The Diesel Farm Importing expensive diesel to make electricity of it or just import the electricity and close the plant.....
	Brown Boveri They must have been huge fan of this company
	M Small glimps from the Brussels underground.
	The Clouds Factory I remember myself asking when I was a child from where the clouds in the sky came... Now you know.
	The Atomic Bunker Hidden deep underground to be protected against almost everything we found this facility that has served as a command center for German, French, American, and British forces, to coördinate nuclear response to an expected Warsaw Pact attack. From the 1950s until France’s eviction of NATO in 1967. Subsequently, until its final closure in the 1990s, this gigantic bunker system was used by one of the major French army groups as its operational headquarters and command facility, housing up to 500 people.
	Maginot line 6 Not all went well this time since large parts where almost completely flooded.
	High Voltage A dying powerplant; struggling for his last spark
	The Prayer's Cave Much prayers are needed in this very unstable quarry. Many pillars and walls where broken by the immense pressure of the ground above it.
	The War Factory A WW2 factory with 3 floors under a manhole cover in a busy city.
	Ice Age This report is dedicated to the memory of Cédric, R.I.P. Cdk
	Carrière Citroën Someone must have forgotten where he parked his car.
	Carrière Fox After years of harvesting lime and mushrooms they all left and never looked back.
	Quarry Kaboem When things don't make the progress you want use some TNT and get the following result :
	La carrière vide Apparently, the plumb rule wasn't even invented during construction.
	Crane therapy Not from my hotel room
	Cable works Miles and miles of electric cables, communication networks, fiberglass and leaking gaspipes mixed with some odor of sewer.
	Music Hall At least there was electricity
	Father Ray Abandonned ? Don't think so. The catholic era is just over and nobody wants to live like this anymore.
	Kino Black To much hospital's; to much cinema's; to much anything here in Belgium
	La carrière oubliée 40 meters below groundlevel...
	Lightworks What do you do when someone left the door open ? We searched the hole place just to tell him. Sadly we couldn't find him ;)
	Filature Dollhouse No machines have been harmed; or stagging has taken place. So no doll's in here.
	Syrian Embassy Not sure why they left here. This place would suits my needs.
	Krematorium More then 100.000 corpses where turned into ashes in less than a century
	Cinema Globe Nothing sheduled in the near future
	Buzludja The monument was officially opened in 1981 as soviet propaganda of the USSR's supremacy over evil capitalism and technology.
	Powerhouse Elia Sometimes a place looks so atractive; abandoned or not, you just want to see it.
	Maginot Line 2 More than 1,200 metres of underground galleries connect the entries to the farthest bunker, at an average depth of 30 metres
	Bureau Central Used to be offices of some nearby industrial site belonging to one of the richest family's in France.
	Ghost ships A whole fleet silently rusting away. The only sounds you hear onboard is the continuous cry of seagulls and the sound of crumpling steel that falls down when you climb the stairs.
	Château du F Large and impressive from the outside; almost like Versailles. But the inside shows only a small glimps from how it was in the past.
	Theatre A After the last show it was used as a storage place. Now waiting for a new performance.
	Bel Air Quarry dating back from 1780. The arches are build by Italian laborer.
	PC Reboul Old Command post of Lieutenant Colonel Reboul from WW1
	Air-raid Shelter Build during the Second WW 30 meter below groundlevel. Build to "accomodate" 8000 people.
	Red Sands Project The Maunsell Sea Forts were small fortified towers built in the Thames and Mersey estuaries during the Second World War to help defend the United Kingdom. The forts were decommissioned in the late 1950s and later used for other activities.
	Powerplant L Coalfired powerplants becomes obsolete since carbon tax is a hype.
	Villa Sbertoli Part of an old sanatorium. From the looks of it already a long time ago since someone was threathed.
	Quarry 78 Hidden in a mountain there are nummerous paintings and pieces of art just waiting until a lonely traveller passes by and reveals their beauty under the light of a burning Coleman. Only temperary are they lit untill you pass by and leave them again in the dark, waiting and waiting.
	The little Cathedral Amen
	Quarry C Who needs a guide in such a place... I wouldn't mind to get lost here, but unfortually I didn't. (Who says that I can't read a map)
	Syncronisation Studio Analog time has come to an end
	Piscine Dramatique A swimmingpool combined with a cinema. It didn't work in th end.
	Powerplant Mickey A little powerplant cramped with tubes and valves
	Monastery Annabel Small convict with a nice chapel
	M & D Academy Some very empty art school
	Carrière De Coolen A small, but beautifull limestone quarry. Not everything went very well with the lightning since I had to do al the running by myself without being cought by the camera ;)
	Maison Heinen A old farmhouse...Nobody left for taking care of
	Coal plant If you find Beringen a dangerous place; then this must be hell. The stairs are present but are of no use at all.
	TBM Schanulleke Drilling a traintunnel 30 meter below sealevel, 8 meter in diameter and under a river; for sure a job for the Germans.
	Château Amon-Re Sometimes you think that it will be very boring until you actually have a look.
	Morgue H Forgotten under the protecting cover of a nearby church
	Morgue S Closed morgue since it was to far away from the main hospital
	A Sugar Plant This plant looked like it was abandoned a very long time ago; but nothing seemed like it was. Although there was electricity; the place was covered in black darkness covering dangerous holes and slippery floors.
	The Spinning Mill Taking pictures in the dark is always a time consuming business; and this was no difference on this location until we finally worked out where the light switches where.
	Castello di Cinderella A real maze inside
	Manor Amelie Into the same family since 1800
	Il Scuneo Black power
	I Piccioni Chiesa Only the pigeons are visiting this place on a regular base
	Powerplant Ω It looks like a museum but it was a real factory a long time ago
	WW2 Bunker Intented to be used as an hospital but it ended as a "Testanlage" for missiles
	Hotel Torrance Seems that they left this place in a great hurry
	Château Clochard The owners liked very much classic music
	Kraftwerk For making electricity; or just the juice for the factory ?
	Rapunzel It started with a legal visit to the park...
	Villa Hector We had to wait a very long time to get in; but our patience got rewarded
	Bath Build for the era of the communist party
	Seven Kings Pool Deserted swimminpool in the UK
	Bakersfield Now you know from where these delicious cookies came in the good old times.
	Sugar Torre Sugarfactory in the middle of Italy on a blistering hot day
	Stabilimento Alluminio Aluminium producing plant from 1927 - 1983. It had his own hydroelectic power plant
	Greenland A semi-abandoned theme park where people still come to have a drink and have some fun although most of the attractions are closed or in disrepair.
	The Fresco Castle Thanks to the dry weather the castle and his paintings are still in a good condition
	Cinema Diana In a bussy town lays this forgotten cinema. The movie ended and no more light touched the screen since years.
	The Coronet A dark and very unfriendly enviroment for your health. While entering this place (during the night) we heard gunshots and a horn of a car that started to blow constantly.
	London subway Only a small glimpse of the underground. Way to bussy to venture in an unknown adventure
	August 2010 The Fairytale Castle There are no words for this..........
	August 2010 747 - 200 Jumbojet A 747 Jumbojet just sitting there on the tarmack of a bussy airport and hoping to ever fly again
	August 2010 Château Venetie Soon this pearl will be reconverted so that more people can join this beauty.
	August 2010 Monastery DR Rain, closed roads, an abandonned location and 3 dumb guards; That's all you need for a nice weekend stroll.
	July 2010 Hôpital RS A real sucker to get in and even more to get out again
	July 2010 Maginot Line More than 1,200 metres of underground galleries connect the entries to the farthest bunker, at an average depth of 30 metres

Sea of Power

How much coal would you need to run al this ?

Prison 15H

My experience is now that it's much harder to get IN a prison than to get out of one ;-)

Fer Boron

12.000 km off tunnels on different levels, partly flooded; and yes this is no typing mistake ;-)

The Odeon Three

3 cinemas lrft behind in an old theatre just waiting for their fate.

The Victoria Palace

The only performers in here were some pigeons.

Le Chai Du Vin

Warehouse to store wine. No "mise en bouteille au Château" in here ;-)

Cinema Pigeon

25 years have passed after the last curtain has fallen

U-verlagerung

When it is war you use every available facility to hide your stuff and create factory's. Even if it is a wet disused iron mine.

Eisenerzbergwerk

6 different levels separated 50 meters from each other; water ingress; iron that eats away the oxygen; holes in the floor going several hundred meters down... In short a place where no man wants to stay more than 5 minutes; but I needed 60 hours to only see a small part of this mine.

Le Trou Perdu

A quarry a stone's throw away from Paris without a single tag or graffiti. How much luck can you have ?

City Morgue

The building died together with his last customer

Hörsaal

Another building whose purpose is outdated and obsolete

The Lion King

After 13 hours our quest was over but we didn't see it all. This quarry has 3 different levels and corridors up to 15 meter high.

Carrière L'escalier

5 floors of endless corridors to collect chalk

The Wine Quarry

The only thing we found was vinegar and fungi, nothing which was really tasty.

Kraftwerk H

only the controlroom with a personnel bunker was saved from demolition.

Forlasita Laghetto # 1

No need to bring your swimwear to this place. The place is closed until further notice.

Roef Theater

And no I didn't made a spelling mistake ;-)

Labo Herzog

What you see here is a heavy steel lined leaded vault containing some radioactive element.

Theater PP

From theater to moviehouse; it didn't work out so well.

Centrale EKO

Another one bites the dust. Green power seems to be the future.

Water Works

Worn out water treatment plant

Kino Treize

13 cinemas under one roof and still no profit to make.

Heavy Metal

After some battle with the Chinese; nearly 4000 people lost their job.

Plateaustollen

Not everything that is underground starts below your feet. Sometimes you need to conquer a mountain first.

Powerplant Maybach

Just another abandonned thermique powerplant

Hydrierwerk

Half collapsed lime quarry

The Diesel Farm

Importing expensive diesel to make electricity of it or just import the electricity and close the plant.....

Brown Boveri

They must have been huge fan of this company

M

Small glimps from the Brussels underground.

The Clouds Factory

I remember myself asking when I was a child from where the clouds in the sky came... Now you know.

The Atomic Bunker

Hidden deep underground to be protected against almost everything we found this facility that has served as a command center for German, French, American, and British forces, to coördinate nuclear response to an expected Warsaw Pact attack. From the 1950s until France’s eviction of NATO in 1967. Subsequently, until its final closure in the 1990s, this gigantic bunker system was used by one of the major French army groups as its operational headquarters and command facility, housing up to 500 people.

Maginot line 6

Not all went well this time since large parts where almost completely flooded.

High Voltage

A dying powerplant; struggling for his last spark

The Prayer's Cave

Much prayers are needed in this very unstable quarry. Many pillars and walls where broken by the immense pressure of the ground above it.

The War Factory

A WW2 factory with 3 floors under a manhole cover in a busy city.

Ice Age

This report is dedicated to the memory of Cédric, R.I.P. Cdk

Carrière Citroën

Someone must have forgotten where he parked his car.

Carrière Fox

After years of harvesting lime and mushrooms they all left and never looked back.

Quarry Kaboem

When things don't make the progress you want use some TNT and get the following result :

La carrière vide

Apparently, the plumb rule wasn't even invented during construction.

Crane therapy

Not from my hotel room

Cable works

Miles and miles of electric cables, communication networks, fiberglass and leaking gaspipes mixed with some odor of sewer.

Music Hall

At least there was electricity

Father Ray

Abandonned ? Don't think so. The catholic era is just over and nobody wants to live like this anymore.

Kino Black

To much hospital's; to much cinema's; to much anything here in Belgium

La carrière oubliée

40 meters below groundlevel...

Lightworks

What do you do when someone left the door open ? We searched the hole place just to tell him. Sadly we couldn't find him ;)

Filature Dollhouse

No machines have been harmed; or stagging has taken place. So no doll's in here.

Syrian Embassy

Not sure why they left here. This place would suits my needs.

Krematorium

More then 100.000 corpses where turned into ashes in less than a century

Cinema Globe

Nothing sheduled in the near future

Buzludja

The monument was officially opened in 1981 as soviet propaganda of the USSR's supremacy over evil capitalism and technology.

Powerhouse Elia

Sometimes a place looks so atractive; abandoned or not, you just want to see it.

Maginot Line 2

More than 1,200 metres of underground galleries connect the entries to the farthest bunker, at an average depth of 30 metres

Bureau Central

Used to be offices of some nearby industrial site belonging to one of the richest family's in France.

Ghost ships

A whole fleet silently rusting away. The only sounds you hear onboard is the continuous cry of seagulls and the sound of crumpling steel that falls down when you climb the stairs.

Château du F

Large and impressive from the outside; almost like Versailles. But the inside shows only a small glimps from how it was in the past.

Theatre A

After the last show it was used as a storage place. Now waiting for a new performance.

Bel Air

Quarry dating back from 1780. The arches are build by Italian laborer.

PC Reboul

Old Command post of Lieutenant Colonel Reboul from WW1

Air-raid Shelter

Build during the Second WW 30 meter below groundlevel. Build to "accomodate" 8000 people.

Red Sands Project

The Maunsell Sea Forts were small fortified towers built in the Thames and Mersey estuaries during the Second World War to help defend the United Kingdom. The forts were decommissioned in the late 1950s and later used for other activities.

Powerplant L

Coalfired powerplants becomes obsolete since carbon tax is a hype.

Villa Sbertoli

Part of an old sanatorium. From the looks of it already a long time ago since someone was threathed.

Quarry 78

Hidden in a mountain there are nummerous paintings and pieces of art just waiting until a lonely traveller passes by and reveals their beauty under the light of a burning Coleman. Only temperary are they lit untill you pass by and leave them again in the dark, waiting and waiting.

The little Cathedral

Amen

Quarry C

Who needs a guide in such a place... I wouldn't mind to get lost here, but unfortually I didn't. (Who says that I can't read a map)

Syncronisation Studio

Analog time has come to an end

Piscine Dramatique

A swimmingpool combined with a cinema. It didn't work in th end.

Powerplant Mickey

A little powerplant cramped with tubes and valves

Monastery Annabel

Small convict with a nice chapel

M & D Academy

Some very empty art school

Carrière De Coolen

A small, but beautifull limestone quarry. Not everything went very well with the lightning since I had to do al the running by myself without being cought by the camera ;)

Maison Heinen

A old farmhouse...Nobody left for taking care of

Coal plant

If you find Beringen a dangerous place; then this must be hell. The stairs are present but are of no use at all.

TBM Schanulleke

Drilling a traintunnel 30 meter below sealevel, 8 meter in diameter and under a river; for sure a job for the Germans.

Château Amon-Re

Sometimes you think that it will be very boring until you actually have a look.

Morgue H

Forgotten under the protecting cover of a nearby church

Morgue S

Closed morgue since it was to far away from the main hospital

A Sugar Plant

This plant looked like it was abandoned a very long time ago; but nothing seemed like it was. Although there was electricity; the place was covered in black darkness covering dangerous holes and slippery floors.

The Spinning Mill

Taking pictures in the dark is always a time consuming business; and this was no difference on this location until we finally worked out where the light switches where.

Castello di Cinderella

A real maze inside

Manor Amelie

Into the same family since 1800

Il Scuneo

Black power

I Piccioni Chiesa

Only the pigeons are visiting this place on a regular base

Powerplant Ω

It looks like a museum but it was a real factory a long time ago

WW2 Bunker

Intented to be used as an hospital but it ended as a "Testanlage" for missiles

Hotel Torrance

Seems that they left this place in a great hurry

Château Clochard

The owners liked very much classic music

Kraftwerk

For making electricity; or just the juice for the factory ?

Rapunzel

It started with a legal visit to the park...

Villa Hector

We had to wait a very long time to get in; but our patience got rewarded

Bath

Build for the era of the communist party

Seven Kings Pool

Deserted swimminpool in the UK

Bakersfield

Now you know from where these delicious cookies came in the good old times.

Sugar Torre

Sugarfactory in the middle of Italy on a blistering hot day

Stabilimento Alluminio

Aluminium producing plant from 1927 - 1983. It had his own hydroelectic power plant

Greenland

A semi-abandoned theme park where people still come to have a drink and have some fun although most of the attractions are closed or in disrepair.

The Fresco Castle

Thanks to the dry weather the castle and his paintings are still in a good condition

Cinema Diana

In a bussy town lays this forgotten cinema. The movie ended and no more light touched the screen since years.

The Coronet

A dark and very unfriendly enviroment for your health. While entering this place (during the night) we heard gunshots and a horn of a car that started to blow constantly.

London subway

Only a small glimpse of the underground. Way to bussy to venture in an unknown adventure

August 2010 The Fairytale Castle

There are no words for this..........

August 2010 747 - 200 Jumbojet

A 747 Jumbojet just sitting there on the tarmack of a bussy airport and hoping to ever fly again

August 2010 Château Venetie

Soon this pearl will be reconverted so that more people can join this beauty.

August 2010 Monastery DR

Rain, closed roads, an abandonned location and 3 dumb guards; That's all you need for a nice weekend stroll.

July 2010 Hôpital RS

A real sucker to get in and even more to get out again

July 2010 Maginot Line

More than 1,200 metres of underground galleries connect the entries to the farthest bunker, at an average depth of 30 metres