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This is my penultimate thread from my latest trip to America!   On the same hot muggy day we discovered the incredible drive-in theater and I nearly met my demise in the hotel resort we were on a then-fruitless search for delicious ice cream refreshments on the way home and after being very...

Construction of the Essex County Hospital Center, also known as Overbrook Asylum began at the end of the 19th Century. Over the next couple of decades it was expanded with more buildings added gradually as it grew into a large institution. It was so large it had it's own railway station on the...

I'm getting into the latter stages of my trip now, but some of the best stuff was saved until last.   In my almost seven years of exploring I had never done a prison, even my four or five previous trips to continental Europe hadn't included 15H or H15 or whatever it's getting called this week...

...otherwise known as the explore that tried to kill mookster.   One of the first things that attracted me to American exploring was Grossinger's Resort - a sprawling former Jewish holiday destination nestled in the Catskills mountain region of upstate New York. During the early to middle of...

Hey All, I recently took a trip to the middle of the California desert to see an old abandoned movie set. While I was there I shot a video of the things that transpired. Be sure to check it out. A link with more information on the site is in the description of the video. I hope you...

OK now onto the place which was by far and away the most unexpected find of my trip.   We were driving towards another explore when we remembered that nearby was an old drive-in movie site so we decided to swing by and snap a few shots as there were apparently a couple of the old screens left...

OK here is where things began to get a little surprising....   Following on from the awful 'Grand Hotel Disappointment' we headed off a short distance down the road to another town to attempt a sanatorium we had heard about. We saw the access but it required a fair old climb that neither of us...

Over the course of my trip I seemed to visit a few sites in a row that I don't think warrant their own threads, weirdly almost all at the halfway point of my trip. So here they are... First up, a massive church in the middle of a ghetto (again), sadly I only managed a few shots in here as my...

Another star from my trip, a mansion with possibly the curviest sexiest staircase I've ever laid eyes on.   I don't really know much about the history, but it's in the grounds of a prison and there is an active movement going on to restore the house to it's former glory after laying derelict...

I want people to be under no illusions, this was a permission visit. You don't really think something this spectacularly beautiful would be uncared for! One of my friends/contacts organised this for us, when she said we could see a crematorium I jumped at the chance and had no idea what to...

I don't often name-drop locations I explore in the States because, like Belgium, they are very protective over many of the spots they hold dear to their hearts. But in this case it's impossible to post photos from here without giving the game away, as the biggest draw of the entire factory has...

America is a country that is rapidly losing it's faith, especially in the northeastern states. There are a ridiculous number of churches in many of the large cities over there, and with dwindling congregations there aren't enough worshippers to go around. Some luckily find their way into...

So we now go seamlessly from one of my favourite things to another of my favourite things.   This place is one of, in my eyes, the Northeastern USA's greatest urbex secrets. Not many people know it exists, and if they do they don't tend to go because of a few reasons - the first being it's...

I honestly don't know where to begin with this one.   While travelling the back roads with my two friends one of them said that he had heard a rumour about an old junkyard fairly close to where we were, but that nobody knew if it was true, and if it was true, whether it was still there. So...

So this was my second explore of the trip and it marked the point where things immediately began to change and become somewhat more surprising. I say that because this, along with many explores that followed were completely unplanned originally, which was excellent.   Taking the back roads...

I've only been off the plane four hours but these 1200+ photos from my latest adventure across the pond aren't going to sort themselves out!   I kicked off my fourth trip with something about as American as you can get - a roller skating rink. There really isn't much information on this one...

Video report from Kentucky in the United States. This is an early 20th century stone house that was ironically purchased recently by a stone quarry company adjacent to the property. This house is quite rugged and I don't believe much could bring it down, they would have to bring out their...

Hi everyone, this is the historic Fisher-Byington House in Danville, Kentucky. It's a large, brick antebellum mansion that is sadly slated for demolition in the coming weeks. It would have been saved most likely had it not been for the fact that it now finds itself located in the middle of a...

One more little surprise post from America! I was going to include this in my miscellaneous round-up thread but I liked the photos too much to shove in there amongst others. I first visited this place near as makes no difference a year ago to the day I visited it this time through a weird...

As this will be the last new thread on my third American trip, here is a mixed bag of all the locations I explored which ended up yielding not enough photos for a separate thread all heaped together in one tidy mess. Union Carbide This was a revisit for me, I had first explored this place last...