Welcome To Forbidden Places
You can explore the different locations listed on the site by genre, country, interest or date of exploration. This passion being by nature quite ephemaral, you will find that many locations are already gone.
You can also browse the latest website updates, find out more about urban exploration, about the author or his books!
Happy virtual exploring.
Name & description |
Type |
Rating |
Status |
Country |
Exploration Date |
Publication Date |
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The Cinema Theater Varia : an art nouveau theater from 1910, abandoned since 1986... A piece of art from the architect Emile Claes. Historical urban exploration! |
Public building |
Reconverted | Belgium |
2005-08-01 | 2005-08-01 | ||
The Clabecq Steelworks : our largest industrial site ever explored. Beautiful furnaces, pipes, rust and dust... |
Factory |
Demolished | Belgium |
2005-09-01 | 2009-04-27 | ||
The Horror Labs or The Veterinary School of Anderlecht : built in 1903, these listed buildings definitely deserved an exploration. Before the reconversion into lofts, we had the chance to infiltrate the place... |
Public building |
Reconverted | Belgium |
2005-11-11 | 2008-03-21 | ||
Hasard collieries, Cheratte : Coal mine of Cheratte: explore an old abandoned yet very rich and well-preserved coal mine. |
Factory |
Abandoned | Belgium |
2005-02-02 | 2009-05-07 | ||
Castle of Mesen, Lede : a superb and futureless castle. Abandoned for years, it will be demolished soon. |
Private building |
Demolished | Belgium |
2005-03-01 | 2005-03-01 | ||
Stella-Artois abandoned brewery : located in Leuven, this brewery is extremely well-preserved. A paradise of copper! |
Factory |
Reconverted | Belgium |
2005-08-08 | 2005-08-08 | ||
The Sauvenière's swimming-pool : huge sports complex from the 1930's, partially abandoned, the Sauvenière's baths await a new life. |
Public building |
Reconverted | Belgium |
2006-03-01 | 2006-03-01 | ||
The mysterious steelworks : Night time. A huge blast furnace. Skip-cars. Cowpers. Rusted giants made of steel! More than 100m high. Shall we include this exploration in rooftops section? |
Factory |
Reconverted | Belgium |
2006-08-04 | 2006-08-05 | ||
The abandoned crypt : explore the inside of this small cemetery to discover the forgotten underground galleries and the abandoned graves. |
Underground |
Abandoned | Belgium |
2006-08-05 | 2006-08-29 | ||
Brussels underground sewers and drains system : a nauseating descent in the belgian capital's bowels! |
Underground |
Active | Belgium |
2006-06-24 | 2006-12-07 | ||
Locomotive's graveyard : a walk in an abandoned locomotive graveyard. |
Train |
Reconverted | Belgium |
2007-02-10 | 2007-02-11 | ||
Joseph Lemaire's Sanatorium : a scary art déco hospital lost in the middle of a forest. |
Hospital |
Reconverted | Belgium |
2005-09-06 | 2009-01-14 | ||
Eight Of Brussels’ Churches : climb to cloud nine with us... A promenade on the sacred rooftops of Brussel - a short summary of 6 years of night explorations! |
Rooftops |
Active | Belgium |
2004-03-02 | 2010-02-20 | ||
Val Benoît's University : the engineers have left the former university campus of Val Benoît! Explore these huge modernist buildings from the 30s. |
Public building |
Reconverted | Belgium |
2006-11-06 | 2010-12-25 | ||
Antwerp's Forensic Institute : between death and oblivion the body must undergo -tests-. Before being laid to rest. In the tranquility of legality. Thanatos comes to the aid of logic. |
Hospital |
Demolished | Belgium |
2006-07-23 | 2012-03-28 | ||
Vilvoorde Prison : as many as 12,000 tramps, drunks, and prostitutes, all those that the society of the time considered a nuisance, were crammed in on four floors. The vaulted cells had narrow slits as the only source of light. A perpetual gloom reigned along the corridors that led to the many workshops... |
Military domain |
Reconverted | Belgium |
2009-05-15 | 2013-02-02 | ||
The Castle of Noisy - Miranda : creepy, sneaky and filthy castle, come and have a walk into Sleeping Beauty's castle... |
Private building |
Endangered | Belgium |
2004-11-05 | 2014-02-20 | ||
Fort de la Chartreuse, Liège : explore this huge forgotten military complex, lot of military drawings. |
Military domain |
Endangered | Belgium |
2005-03-20 | 2007-10-04 | ||
SAFEA La Louvière : probabaly the largest abandoned factory in Belgium. A beautiful colored chemical plant abandoned for years. |
Factory |
Demolished | Belgium |
2005-03-01 | 2005-03-01 | ||
Anderlues coking plant : exploration of a tiny coking plant. One of the last hardly standing in Belgium, most of them have been already destroyed. |
Factory |
Demolished | Belgium |
2005-04-01 | 2005-04-01 | ||
RTT home : a nice and colorful vacation residence built in 1950 by an Art-Deco Belgian architect. |
Public building |
Demolished | Belgium |
2005-05-01 | 2005-05-01 | ||
Péronnes coal washing plant : a concrete giant building with aesthetic architecture. |
Factory |
Reconverted | Belgium |
2005-06-01 | 2005-06-01 | ||
Oostende military hospital : a huge complex of buildings including a nice chapel in the middle of sand dunes. |
Hospital |
Reconverted | Belgium |
2005-06-01 | 2005-06-01 | ||
Inside a roadbridge : instead of filling them up with concrete, most of the bridges have large artificial cavities. Often aesthetical, they are so many places to explore... |
Underground |
Active | Belgium |
2005-12-11 | 2005-12-11 | ||
SNCB abandoned building : a large forgotten building, isolated from everything, lost in nature... |
Train |
Abandoned | Belgium |
2005-08-01 | 2005-08-01 | ||
Untighten bolt factory : this jungle of sexy micro-machines used to produce fully customized bolts. |
Factory |
Demolished | Belgium |
2005-11-01 | 2005-11-01 | ||
Cranes climbing : unusual night sights of the city |
Rooftops |
Active | Belgium |
2005-09-01 | 2005-09-01 | ||
Verlipack Jumet : exploration of an abandoned glass bottles factory |
Factory |
Demolished | Belgium |
2005-11-11 | 2005-11-11 | ||
Diamond's opera : this page was just made to explain what infiltration means: -going into places you are not supposed to- :-) |
Public building |
Active | Belgium |
2006-07-23 | 2007-01-15 | ||
La Providence's forges : photos tour of a location being cleverly reconverted. |
Factory |
Reconverted | Belgium |
2006-12-17 | 2007-02-08 | ||
The unknown shipyard : construction sites are boring to explore. But ship construction sites are, well... more interesting... |
Factory |
Active | Belgium |
2007-02-11 | 2007-02-12 | ||
Highway bridges : underground and aerial promenades at the same time. Very atmospheric |
Underground |
Active | Belgium |
2007-02-10 | 2007-02-13 | ||
Brussels Metro : dive into the Brussels metro... |
Underground |
Active | Belgium |
2013-01-01 | 2013-08-07 | ||
Interprochim S.A. : a strange exploration of a plaster sculptures factory. |
Factory |
Demolished | Belgium |
2005-04-01 | 2005-04-01 | ||
Le Valdor hospital : an XIXth century abandoned hospital located in Liège, Belgium. A local classic urban exploration place. Oppressive atmosphere... |
Hospital |
Reconverted | Belgium |
2005-05-01 | 2005-05-01 | ||
Charleroi civilean hospital : a huge and modern hospital, that is, in the seventies. Demolition is in progress, but exploring the morgue is still worth a visit... |
Hospital |
Demolished | Belgium |
2005-07-01 | 2005-07-01 | ||
Erpent manor house : just a beautiful 19th Century house being demolished, with a wonderful abandoned greenhouse |
Private building |
Demolished | Belgium |
2005-08-01 | 2005-08-01 | ||
Stella-Artois malthouse : exploration of an empty and not well-known factory. The ancient Stella malthouse is indeed worth a visit. |
Factory |
Demolished | Belgium |
2005-12-18 | 2005-12-18 | ||
St Elizabeth's clinic : short exploration of an abandoned clinic. |
Hospital |
Demolished | Belgium |
2007-01-28 | 2007-01-31 | ||
Du Gouffre collieries : yet another abandoned Belgian coal mine. |
Factory |
Abandoned | Belgium |
2005-02-01 | 2005-02-01 | ||
Intervapeur Verviers : an abandoned steam producing plant. |
Factory |
Demolished | Belgium |
2005-04-01 | 2005-04-01 | ||
Verviers barracks : huge abandoned colorful barracks in a very good condition. Unique. |
Military domain |
Reconverted | Belgium |
2005-04-01 | 2005-04-01 | ||
Pont-à-Celles Arsenal : an abandoned train repairing site from the SNCB (Belgian National Railway company). |
Train |
Reconverted | Belgium |
2005-06-01 | 2005-06-01 | ||
Charbrit Establishments : in a small village of the walloon region, one can discover the silos of the Charbrit factory. A tiny aesthetical exploration... |
Factory |
Demolished | Belgium |
2005-09-03 | 2005-09-03 |