Welcome To Forbidden Places

The Clabecq Steelworks : our largest industrial site ever explored. Beautiful furnaces, pipes, rust and dust...

Westport power plant : this industrial cathedral keeps its secrets behind sealed windows and high walls... Filming location of the movie 12 Monkeys.

CdK's Blast Furnace : brainstormed, calculated, dreamed of, and then... accomplished! A short story of a long ascent which took us to the 7th industrial heaven!

Hasard collieries, Cheratte : Coal mine of Cheratte: explore an old abandoned yet very rich and well-preserved coal mine.

Stella-Artois abandoned brewery : located in Leuven, this brewery is extremely well-preserved. A paradise of copper!

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?

Uckange Blast Furnace : photographed between 2004 and 2009 during the conversion from abandonment to museum. This site will likely provide the only preserved insight into the steel industry of France.

SAFEA La Louvière : probabaly the largest abandoned factory in Belgium. A beautiful colored chemical plant abandoned for years.

Anderlues coking plant : exploration of a tiny coking plant. One of the last hardly standing in Belgium, most of them have been already destroyed.

Péronnes coal washing plant : a concrete giant building with aesthetic architecture.

Untighten bolt factory : this jungle of sexy micro-machines used to produce fully customized bolts.

Verlipack Jumet : exploration of an abandoned glass bottles factory

Park Royal Guinness Brewery : hmmm large sites... This factory, being demolished at the time of our exploration, was extremely rich and well-preserved...

La Providence's forges : photos tour of a location being cleverly reconverted.

The unknown shipyard : construction sites are boring to explore. But ship construction sites are, well... more interesting...

The Basque berets factory Pierre Laulhère : exploration of an old factory of a small Pyrenean village.

Interprochim S.A. : a strange exploration of a plaster sculptures factory.

Stella-Artois malthouse : exploration of an empty and not well-known factory. The ancient Stella malthouse is indeed worth a visit.

Collignon's brewery, Lécluse : yet another brewery from early XXth century. Limited interest except for beer labels collectors.

Du Gouffre collieries : yet another abandoned Belgian coal mine.

Intervapeur Verviers : an abandoned steam producing plant.

Charbrit Establishments : in a small village of the walloon region, one can discover the silos of the Charbrit factory. A tiny aesthetical exploration...