2023 was a fantastic year for me exploring-wise. While I explored less locations than in 2022, I feel that the quality of locations I visted is by-and-large much higher. I explored a lot with old friends but also made a lot of new great friends. I also moved to the midwest and so far I've had a fantastic time.
If you know me, you know I love churches and they were my most visited kind of location. Last year, I made it a goal to visit more old theaters and movie palaces this year and thus they were my second most visited type of place.
I visited 121 unique locations this year. Because of the sensitivity of many of these locations, I will only be including photos of a fraction of them.
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1: First spot of the year, now a burned shell.
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2: A cool morgue in an otherwise very boring building.
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4: This large high school was unbelievably sketchy and was a small part of a really fun and wild day.
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5: From extremely alarmed and secured to scrappers paradise in the span of a few weeks.
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6: This school was absolutely disgusting and filled with rats.
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7: This school has since been vandalised pretty harshly, including this pool.
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8: This totally pristine vacant hospital could probably become active again tomorrow if they wanted to.
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9: Massive pool that became victim to the downturn of its surrounding neighborhood.
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10: Same story as 9.
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11: Gorgeous abandoned church that became victim to the flavor of the month train.
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12: This totally not pristine vacant hospital could definitely not become active again tomorrow if they wanted to.
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13: Beautiful chapel on a large hospital campus.
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pearson, on Flickr
14: This big city bank also became victim to ruthless vandalism and the flavor of the month train.
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15: This massive college basketball arena was a favorite of mine this year, see my thread in the South section for more photos.
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16: This neat abandoned funeral home was turned into a dirt lot less than a month after I first visited.
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17: Another cool morgue.
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pearson, on Flickr
18: This abandoned church has essentially become a storage unit.
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19: Another abandoned church in an extremely rough neighborhood.
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pearson, on Flickr
20: This basketball arena was filled with scrappers, explorers, and god knows what else. Never want to go back!
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21: This abandoned church was an absolute sauna inside.
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22: I always thought this power station was one I was going to have to cross off the list, but what do you know!
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pearson, on Flickr
23: Big city abandoned church in a neighborhood on the up-and-up.
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pearson, on Flickr
24: Small surgical center that had more cool shit inside than most full-sized hospitals.
Thanks for reading, happy holidays and wishing the best for everyones 2024!