Welcome To Forbidden Places
You can explore the different locations listed on the site by genre, country, interest or date of exploration. This passion being by nature quite ephemaral, you will find that many locations are already gone.
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Happy virtual exploring.
Name & description |
Type |
Rating |
Status |
Country |
Exploration Date |
Publication Date |
|
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The Clabecq Steelworks : our largest industrial site ever explored. Beautiful furnaces, pipes, rust and dust... |
Factory |
Demolished | Belgium |
2005-09-01 | 2009-04-27 | ||
Westport power plant : this industrial cathedral keeps its secrets behind sealed windows and high walls... Filming location of the movie 12 Monkeys. |
Factory |
Demolished | USA |
2006-04-02 | 2006-04-02 | ||
Castle of Mesen, Lede : a superb and futureless castle. Abandoned for years, it will be demolished soon. |
Private building |
Demolished | Belgium |
2005-03-01 | 2005-03-01 | ||
Cane Hill Asylum : formerly an urbex trophy in the early 2000's, this asylum is... no more. |
Hospital |
Demolished | United Kingdom |
2008-09-28 | 2011-10-21 | ||
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. |
Hospital |
Demolished | Belgium |
2006-07-23 | 2012-03-28 | ||
Internationale Film-Union GmbH : Little copy and synchronization studio lost in the woods. Don Camillo, Laurel & Hardy among many others have been germanized here... |
Private building |
Demolished | Germany |
2009-05-17 | 2012-10-17 | ||
SAFEA La Louvière : probabaly the largest abandoned factory in Belgium. A beautiful colored chemical plant abandoned for years. |
Factory |
Demolished | Belgium |
2005-03-01 | 2005-03-01 | ||
Anderlues coking plant : exploration of a tiny coking plant. One of the last hardly standing in Belgium, most of them have been already destroyed. |
Factory |
Demolished | Belgium |
2005-04-01 | 2005-04-01 | ||
Abandoned holiday camp : located in the Landes (Southern West France), this abandoned camp is built in the forest, around an old pretty villa. |
Public building |
Demolished | France |
2005-05-01 | 2005-05-01 | ||
RTT home : a nice and colorful vacation residence built in 1950 by an Art-Deco Belgian architect. |
Public building |
Demolished | Belgium |
2005-05-01 | 2005-05-01 | ||
Untighten bolt factory : this jungle of sexy micro-machines used to produce fully customized bolts. |
Factory |
Demolished | Belgium |
2005-11-01 | 2005-11-01 | ||
Verlipack Jumet : exploration of an abandoned glass bottles factory |
Factory |
Demolished | Belgium |
2005-11-11 | 2005-11-11 | ||
Park Royal Guinness Brewery : hmmm large sites... This factory, being demolished at the time of our exploration, was extremely rich and well-preserved... |
Factory |
Demolished | United Kingdom |
2006-02-18 | 2006-02-18 | ||
Interprochim S.A. : a strange exploration of a plaster sculptures factory. |
Factory |
Demolished | Belgium |
2005-04-01 | 2005-04-01 | ||
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... |
Hospital |
Demolished | Belgium |
2005-07-01 | 2005-07-01 | ||
Otzenrath ghost town : the Garzweiler min won. Its continuous growth lead to the expropriation of this small German village. |
Private building |
Demolished | Germany |
2005-07-01 | 2005-07-01 | ||
Erpent manor house : just a beautiful 19th Century house being demolished, with a wonderful abandoned greenhouse |
Private building |
Demolished | Belgium |
2005-08-01 | 2005-08-01 | ||
Stella-Artois malthouse : exploration of an empty and not well-known factory. The ancient Stella malthouse is indeed worth a visit. |
Factory |
Demolished | Belgium |
2005-12-18 | 2005-12-18 | ||
St Elizabeth's clinic : short exploration of an abandoned clinic. |
Hospital |
Demolished | Belgium |
2007-01-28 | 2007-01-31 | ||
Intervapeur Verviers : an abandoned steam producing plant. |
Factory |
Demolished | Belgium |
2005-04-01 | 2005-04-01 | ||
Charbrit Establishments : in a small village of the walloon region, one can discover the silos of the Charbrit factory. A tiny aesthetical exploration... |
Factory |
Demolished | Belgium |
2005-09-03 | 2005-09-03 |