Welcome To Forbidden Places

1936 Berlin's Olympic Village : like the 29 other Olympic villages, the 1936 edition has only had a short moment of glory. But unlike the others, the 1936 Olympics is possible the most significant games in our history

Abandoned Castles from South West of France : random discoveries during wanderings in my home country.

Abandoned holiday camp : located in the Landes (Southern West France), this abandoned camp is built in the forest, around an old pretty villa.

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

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.

Australian rooftops : another way of urban exploration. During the night, everything can be opened, climbed and explored...

Australian underground drains : the famous Cave Clan's underground networks!

Beelitz-Heilstätten Sanatorium : this grand building has stood the test of time in history. It cured Adolph Hitler, treated thousands of tuberculosis patients, and was a Soviet military hospital. Join me as we explore the mighty Beelitz Sanatorium that is now lost and forgotten in the surrounding environment of Berlin...

Brussels Metro : dive into the Brussels metro...

Brussels underground sewers and drains system : a nauseating descent in the belgian capital's bowels!

Caestert underground quarries : explore these huge limestone quarries below the Belgian and Netherlands borders.

Cane Hill Asylum : formerly an urbex trophy in the early 2000's, this asylum is... no more.

Canfranc railway station : located in the Pyrenees, between France and Spain, this abandoned railway station was the largest station in Europe. If you like king size derelict buildings, this is the place to explore!

Castle of Mesen, Lede : a superb and futureless castle. Abandoned for years, it will be demolished soon.

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!

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

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...

Château Bijou : exploration of a real little operetta castle, with its stucco bas-reliefs and cornices and its Italian coloured frescoes...

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

Cranes climbing : unusual night sights of the city

Diamond's opera : this page was just made to explain what infiltration means: -going into places you are not supposed to- :-)

Du Gouffre collieries : yet another abandoned Belgian coal mine.

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!

Erpent manor house : just a beautiful 19th Century house being demolished, with a wonderful abandoned greenhouse

Fort de la Chartreuse, Liège : explore this huge forgotten military complex, lot of military drawings.

Fort Portalet : lost in the middle of the Pyrénées mountains, this abandoned fort dug into the steep cliff protected the border between France and Spain.

Gary, Indiana, ghost town : yet another victim from the steel industry recession. 6 photos galleries for this city that readhed up to 200,000 inhabitants!

H.M. Melbourne's Pentridge prison : infiltration of an old (1851) Prison in Melbourne. Exploration of the cells from the high security wing...

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

Hellingly hospital (East sussex mental asylum) : explore this asylum closed down in 1994. Built in extreme isolation to allow relaxation and eventually mental recovery to the disturbed patients...

Highway bridges : underground and aerial promenades at the same time. Very atmospheric

Hospital X : one of the biggest State Hospital of the american East Coast, slowly abandoned due to the deinstitutionalization.

Hudson River State Hospital : a beautiful Kirkbride burnt down in June 2007.

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...

Internationale Film-Union GmbH : Little copy and synchronization studio lost in the woods. Don Camillo, Laurel & Hardy among many others have been germanized here...

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

Intervapeur Verviers : an abandoned steam producing plant.

Joseph Lemaire's Sanatorium : a scary art déco hospital lost in the middle of a forest.

La Goutte d'eau (the 'Water Drop') : the Lescun and Cette-Eygun train station is not used since the closure of the line Oloron-Canfranc. But it was still used by an anarchist-environmentalist movement until October 2005. It is abandoned since this date.

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

Le palais de Chaillot : impressive location. the museum was being renovated during our infiltration. Unbeatable view on the eiffel Tower...

Le Valdor hospital : an XIXth century abandoned hospital located in Liège, Belgium. A local classic urban exploration place. Oppressive atmosphere...

Locomotive's graveyard : a walk in an abandoned locomotive graveyard.

Maastricht casemates : come down and explore the 10km of military underground galleries, left intact and abandoned since 1868...

New Jersey State Hospital for the Insane : exploration of the violent ward of the beautiful abandoned Greystone asylum...

Norwich Insane Asylum : exploration of this giant abandoned asylum. Atmospheric exploration...

Old Newark county Jail : and old creepy prison abandoned since 1970...

Oostende military hospital : a huge complex of buildings including a nice chapel in the middle of sand dunes.

Otzenrath ghost town : the Garzweiler min won. Its continuous growth lead to the expropriation of this small German village.

Paris catacombs : visit the famous underground quarries and catacombs below Paris, with the ossuaries, ancient rooms and caves, blockhaus...

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

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

Pont-à-Celles Arsenal : an abandoned train repairing site from the SNCB (Belgian National Railway company).

Portopalo's castle : unbeatable sight, swimming-pool, sumptuous garden... The residence of your dreams... in the 80's!

Rooftops Around The World : at night, the city sleeps. Forbidden Places climbs.

RTT home : a nice and colorful vacation residence built in 1950 by an Art-Deco Belgian architect.

Sabinosa's Sanatorium : Visit a 1920s sanatorium in an idyllic location between the sea and the cliffs. The TB patients were removed, replaced by orphaned victims of the Francoist regime.

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

Saint sulpice secrets : spiral staircase, towers, furtive passages... Come to explore the most secret parts of St Sulpice Church

Sea View Children Hospital : explore and -taste the dreams of mad children- with us in this abandoned hospital in New-York...

SNCB abandoned building : a large forgotten building, isolated from everything, lost in nature...

Spreepark - The Abandoned Amusement Park : located downtown East-Berlin, this theme park is now lost forever, and fights with the ghosts of its past...

St Elizabeth's clinic : short exploration of an abandoned clinic.

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

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

The abandoned crypt : explore the inside of this small cemetery to discover the forgotten underground galleries and the abandoned graves.

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

The Castle of Ilbarritz : Forbidden Places opens the doors of the mysterious organ's castle.

The Castle of Noisy - Miranda : creepy, sneaky and filthy castle, come and have a walk into Sleeping Beauty's castle...

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!

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

The Hôpital de la Marine : since 1788, this stone giant challenges the centuries but still remains.

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...

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?

The Palais Garnier : V.I.P.trip into the heart of the Opéra de Paris.

The Sauvenière's swimming-pool : huge sports complex from the 1930's, partially abandoned, the Sauvenière's baths await a new life.

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

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.

Underground walk in a railway network : come down with us, explore this underground active rail network and do some trainspotting... (video is password protected, ask us for authorization)

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

Val Benoît's University : the engineers have left the former university campus of Val Benoît! Explore these huge modernist buildings from the 30s.

Verlipack Jumet : exploration of an abandoned glass bottles factory

Verviers barracks : huge abandoned colorful barracks in a very good condition. Unique.

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...

West Park mental hospital : the last of the eleven great asylums built around London, a true self-sufficient city, full of underground tunnels... Atmospheric exploration!

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