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Abandoned Wisconsin: The Demise of America’s Dairyland

July 22, 2020

Troy Hess

Hess’s photography collection is the work of years of exploration, down back roads and through abandoned communities. The decline of the dairy industry in Wisconsin is well known, despite our continued insistence on calling ourselves “The Dairy State.” But the days of huge families running a (somewhat) profitable …

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Architecture, Photo Journalism, Photography, Urban Exploration

Detroit Disassembled

July 14, 2011

Andrew Moore

I find something incredibly satisfying about Moore’s photos of a decaying post-apocalyptic Detroit. While the building are crumbling to nothing, nature is reasserting herself.  Man has not conquered nature, nor ever will. We may be doing our damnedest to overpopulate and pollute the planet, but nature will have …

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Archeology, Urban Exploration

Beneath the Metropolis – The Secret Life of Cities

July 13, 2007

Alex Marshall

Marshall gives a short overview on a number of famous cities and their secret underground. From waterworks, subway tunnels, aqueducts, crypts and even whole secret cities and train systems under Moscow, most major metropolitan areas have thousands of feet of under-structures that very few people are aware of. …

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Architecture, Photography, Urban Exploration

Access All Areas

June 13, 2007

Access All AreasNinjalicious
Ninjalicious, founder of Infiltration.org and master urban explorer, came out with the wicked useful guide to visiting hidden and off-limit places. Sadly, he died weeks after the book was published. However, his immensely useful collection of tips on getting in and out of spaces is available to one and …

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Archeology, Photo Journalism, Photography, Urban Exploration

Ghostly Ruins – America’s Forgotten Architecture

June 13, 2007

Harry Skrdla
Harry Skrdla is a prat. His writing is pompous, overblown and redundant. I can almost guarantee he has a closet full of notebooks where he wrote wretched Goth poetry in while in high school.

The pictures, on the other hand, are beautiful. Encompassing a wide array of ruins …

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