I was just having a conversation on Reddit with someone about some of the best and most impressive explores in the recent history of Urban Exploration.

Not sure if this has been brought up here in a thread already, so maybe this would be a cool one to start?

What are the explores that you have seen from others that make your top 3 Most Impressive Explorations


For me, here are my top 3

1 - Anyone who managed to get into the Niagara Falls tunnels from the old power plant

https://sewerfresh...pervillain-hideout



2 - The Russian Space Shuttles

https://www.cnn.co...shuttle/index.html




3 - Anyone who has managed to scale to the top of the Pyramids





Hoping others will jump in here and share their favorite things other explorers have done!

Russian Shuttles on Baikonur base of course. I know a few people who went recently.

Duga over the horizon radar near the Chernobyl nuclear plant. Often erroneously called Duga 3 after a mistake in translation.

http://www.m-koetter.de/content/duga-5/

Posted by Freaktography 3 - Anyone who has managed to scale to the top of the Pyramids click to view

I could pick 10 just from what Ms Grange has done.

Posted by rob.i.am I could pick 10 just from what Ms Grange has done.

Oh man. The shots of her on top of the Chrysler Building are aome of my favourites!!

Couldn't agree with you more

I gotta nominate dsankt's trip to Aerojet-Dade.

https://sewerfresh.com/posts/77/NASA

I'm not impressed with people climbing the Pyramids of Giza, which can cause damage to a protected World Heritage Site.


Anyway, I'll also add the only known interior pictures of the Ryugyong Hotel

Posted by mookster Russian Shuttles on Baikonur base of course. I know a few people who went recently. This is one of mine too, I ponder the question of could I do this hike? About once a year Duga over the horizon radar near the Chernobyl nuclear plant. Often erroneously called Duga 3 after a mistake in translation. http://www.m-koetter.de/content/duga-5/ Absolutely one of the most amazing places I've gotten to be alone in. The size of this radar when standing beneath it with no other humans nearby as the wind whistles through the array is impossible to put into words. and climbing it was my personal adjustment to the rule of I don't climb things (I didn't go all the way up though) http://www.m-koett...0/MK-20131024-4157,xlarge.1401024342.jpg

Posted by Steed I'm not impressed with people climbing the Pyramids of Giza, which can cause damage to a protected World Heritage Site.

Yep, me too. Does nothing for me and sites like that don't need people clambering all over them.

Posted by Steed I'm not impressed with people climbing the Pyramids of Giza, which can cause damage to a protected World Heritage Site. Anyway, I'll also add the only known interior pictures of the Ryugyong Hotel

meh, people have been climbing up and down them for thousands of years. If the general public is barred from doing so, the impact from one or two individual explorers is absolutely negligible.
I'm sure that natural erosion from wind and rain has caused far more substantive damage than all of the combined human traffic over the last 100yrs.

I'd slap the shit out of anyone I saw carving their initials into the stones, but could care less about the few daring souls willing to climb up there for a midnight selfie.

Back to the topic at hand - I've always wanted to explore big old navy ships. I can't seem to find the link now, but I recall reading about a group who did a multi-day explore in one of the US Naval shipyards. Would absolutely fucking love to get out there someday.

Would also LOVE to explore the ship breaking yards in Alang, India. I actually have a connection with the local harbor master for one of the large yards, but alas, am stuck here in Canada. Some day though

Pripyat, North Brother Island, and Denbigh Asylum. In that order

Also wanted to mention Off-Limits' trip to Pyramiden, Grumant and Colesbukta:

http://www.uer.ca/...=1&threadid=125297

http://www.uer.ca/...urrpage=1&pp#post0

Obviously it's not much of a feat to get in as they do tours and it would be beyond stupid and irresponsible to wander off on your own but I think Chernobyl is such a big one.

https://www.diypho...oned-city-pripyat/

Such a huge history behind it. Gives it that much more adrenalin if that makes sense to anyone.

Posted by offlimits Denbigh Asylum.

Maybe ten, fifteen years ago it would have been worth seeing, before Most Haunted got their hands on it and when the auditorium and mortuary were still there and the rest of the buildings hadn't collapsed into either a soggy or fire damaged mess or had the interiors completely ripped out. I made my one and only trip there seven years back and it was getting in an awful state then.

There is a running joke amongst UK explorers about Denbigh and how it attracts all the Youtube idiots and noobies - it's second only to Camelot theme park in the most over-explored, over-exposed stakes over here.

The outside is beautiful, but other than that it is absolutely not worth travelling more than an hour for now....

/Denbigh rant over lol!

Posted by mookster Maybe ten, fifteen years ago it would have been worth seeing, before Most Haunted got their hands on it and when the auditorium and mortuary were still there and the rest of the buildings hadn't collapsed into either a soggy or fire damaged mess or had the interiors completely ripped out. I made my one and only trip there seven years back and it was getting in an awful state then. There is a running joke amongst UK explorers about Denbigh and how it attracts all the Youtube idiots and noobies - it's second only to Camelot theme park in the most over-explored, over-exposed stakes over here. The outside is beautiful, but other than that it is absolutely not worth travelling more than an hour for now.... /Denbigh rant over lol!

Denbigh looks like a shell of what it once was. If you compare old and new photos, its a skeleton.

Posted by Pear Denbigh looks like a shell of what it once was. If you compare old and new photos, its a skeleton.

Yep it is - literally a shell of what it was.

A few years ago the local council served a compulsory works order on it and removed absolutely everything back to the bare bricks - floors, walls, the lot from the front half of the site and replaced the roof with a new metal one. This is the part they want to include in any eventual development that takes place so it was done to avoid any further collapse and/or fires taking hold.

The rear half of the site has been left to go to further collapse and ruin, and last year a huge fire took out a large part of one of the remaining wings.

Posted by mookster Maybe ten, fifteen years ago it would have been worth seeing, before Most Haunted got their hands on it and when the auditorium and mortuary were still there and the rest of the buildings hadn't collapsed into either a soggy or fire damaged mess or had the interiors completely ripped out. I made my one and only trip there seven years back and it was getting in an awful state then. There is a running joke amongst UK explorers about Denbigh and how it attracts all the Youtube idiots and noobies - it's second only to Camelot theme park in the most over-explored, over-exposed stakes over here. The outside is beautiful, but other than that it is absolutely not worth travelling more than an hour for now.... /Denbigh rant over lol!

Wow, did not know any of this, it sure does look intriguing from the outside

uLiveAndYouBurn has done some pretty impressive shit.
Him and Dsankt have both pulled off some of the most impressive explores I've seen shared.
So my list would include a lot of places they've done.

There have been others that have pulled off extremely impressive things here and there but not to the degree of those two guys. They continually deliver.
Never met the guy but Dsankt is the epitome of an "urban explorer" to me. He is "the man".


Chernobyl/Niagara Falls Tunnels/Golden Gate Bridge/Chateau De Noisy(demo'd)
would top my list.

Honorable mention to NickSan the "Been Everywhere" man. May he RIP.
He had some pretty amazing places from all over the world under his belt.

So has anyone done the paid tour of the abandoned part of the cosmodrome at Baikonur in recent years? I hear you can arrange through some of of the tour agencies that give tours of the city and active parts. It's absurdly expensive, but as remote as the location is, it might be the easiest option.

Posted by YoelT So has anyone done the paid tour of the abandoned part of the cosmodrome at Baikonur in recent years? I hear you can arrange through some of of the tour agencies that give tours of the city and active parts. It's absurdly expensive, but as remote as the location is, it might be the easiest option.

Not yet but I've been considering it. The whole hike across the Kazakh desert thing has really been holding me back from going! The option I found was relatively inexpensive though getting the flights will be pricey