Welcome To Forbidden Places

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Du Gouffre collieries : yet another abandoned Belgian coal mine.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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)

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...

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

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- :-)

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

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

Brussels Metro : dive into the Brussels metro...

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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!

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

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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?

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...

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

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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