Jaw dropping former library building on the campus of an abandoned psychiatric hospital. (Full set in comments)8yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Sure, a desk in the attic of an abandoned abbey is the perfect place to leave your decomposed vulture.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/WTF
My girlfriend gave me a new bottle for my latest pickup, but she decided to leave the instructions on. I intend to follow them.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/trees
A stack of vintage televisions and some funky ass wallpaper in an abandoned hotel and spa.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Gorgeous former nurses dormitory rotting away on North Brother Island. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Took a break from the abandoned stuff, and decided to view NYC's Times Square in a way I've never seen it before.9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
The main lobby of a huge abandoned resort. We stumbled upon this place by accident while hiking in the area. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
I walked into a room in an abandoned school and found some huge columns made of old dolls and stuffed animals. Not even sure how they managed to pull this off.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/WTF
One of the strangest scenes I have ever come across while exploring. Columns made of old dolls and toys inside an abandoned middle school. (Full set in comments)10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A light still shines behind the counter of an abandoned vacation resort nestled in the mountains of Pennsylvania. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A bowling alley for patients in the basement of a decaying psychiatric hospital complex in Upstate New York. (Full set in comments)8yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Mirrors line the walls of this psychiatric hospital bathroom. They couldn't be made of glass, because glass could be broken and used as a weapon. Instead, they were pieces of highly polished sheet metal.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
I always hate to see broken stained glass. It's still pretty amazing to think that after 40 years of neglect beside a major thoroughfare in a bad neighborhood, only one pane is missing from this piece.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
The grand staircase in a long abandoned mansion. This building is, without a doubt, the most gorgeous house I have ever set foot in. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
After significant amounts of rain began to fall while exploring an abandoned asylum, we decided to leave before the tunnels flash flooded. We should have made that decision 10 minutes earlier. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
An old bar rotting away in an abandoned resort nestled upon a mountain between two ponds.(Full set in comments)8yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
An intricate painting, depicting an old Dissection album cover, in one of the wards in my local abandoned hospital. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Crime scene test kit, evidence, and crime scene photos found in an abandoned forensic laboratory on the campus of a now demolished New Jersey hospital . (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Looking down the corridor of a fire damaged Victorian psychiatric hospital. That hole isn't from demolition equipment. It actually fell off the building. (Full set in comments)10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Tissues samples mounted in lab slides in the basement of an abandoned psychiatric hospital. There were also moldy brain samples and tons of other interesting stuff down here.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
The grand main staircase and tiled floor in the lobby of an abandoned psychiatric hospital. The building still has power running to the less decayed areas.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Overgrown benches in the courtyard of an abandoned lead company's laboratory complex. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
The most amazing morgue I've ever seen in person. It used to be decked out with chairs, Pyrex, and organ specimens. All that's left is a cabinet of tissue slides. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
After nearly a decade of wandering around abandoned buildings, this is my favorite picture taken in an abandoned hospital. Some asshole burned this building to the ground recently. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
It's always a little unnerving to see a third story hallway from the floor below it. (Full set in comments)10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
The Statue of Liberty between vacant hospital wards on Ellis Island. One Fifth of all the immigrants who passed through the island wound up in this hospital. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
The glass porch of a tuberculosis pavilion on the campus of an old psychiatric hospital. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A bowling alley in the basement of a different abandoned psychiatric hospital in New York. (Full set in comments)8yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Vintage cigarette and coke machines found in the lobby of an an abandoned theater10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Masonic symbol hung above the fireplace in a beautiful abandoned lodge.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
When I first found this hospital, it was totally pristine. The lights were on, the heat still worked, and everything was left behind. Two years later...10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Philadelphia's beautiful city hall, as seen from the roof of a nearby tower. [960x600][OC]10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/CityPorn
Trees and shrubbery pushing up against the wall of a historic New Jersey sanatorium. The building complex is supposed to be largely demolished next year. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A disgusting amount of literature left behind in the library of a former psychiatric hospital. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A mostly clean hallway with lights still on in an otherwise heavily vandalized hospital. We were unsure as to whether this part was truly abandoned or not. (Full set in comments)10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Arches and pews in a one hundred and fifteen year old church. This building was days away from demolition, but was sold and set to be restored at the last minute. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Looking over a sea of decaying chairs from the mezzanine of a theater abandoned since the race riots of 1968.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A panoramic shot from above Times Square, this time from a different roof a little further away. (Album in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
The Care Bear dayroom in the childrens building at a large, half abandoned psychiatric hospital. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
In honor of the passing of Leonard Nimoy, here is a Spock piece painted on the wall in an abandoned Newark Factory. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Some incredible stained glass above the altar space inside a church abandoned almost 40 years ago.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A strange hallway in a fairly interesting abandoned hospital. Half of it is severely decayed. The other half is almost pristine. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A small abandoned hospital that I always passed but never stopped to check out. I was a patient here shortly before it closed, due to an insect bite that many other doctors didn't recognize. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
An untouched pane of stained glass on the front door of a collapsing hotel. The building has been abandoned for decades, and has probably fallen over since I visited.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A very creepy psychiatric hospital building (link to full set w/ interior shots in comments)11yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Looking up the caged-in staircase leading up to the dentists office of an abandoned psychiatric hospital.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Standing on the landing of a caged in circular staircase, in a forgotten psychiatric hospital.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
I see you guys like antiques. How about this antique popcorn maker left in an abandoned theater?11yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Before and after- the top floor landing of the main staircase in the Kirkbride building at Greystone Park. You can help stop the demolition, and the frivolous squandering of taxpayer dollars that demolition entails. More in comments.9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A couple of forgotten bras hanging inside a storage room in an old psychiatric hospital.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A mold of a patients teeth left sitting on the desk in the Dentist's office of an abandoned psychiatric hospital. (Full set in comments)10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A beautiful staircase original to the construction of a scenic tuburculosis sanatorium. It was built over a century ago, and has changed very little since closing in the 1970's. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
The gorgeous chapel in an abandoned monastery/hospital I visited recently. In addition to the chapel, there is a full sized abandoned church attached.9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A basketball court and indoor track decaying with the lights on in a massive abandoned high school.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
An interesting old television set in a crumbling south Jersey farmhouse.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
The altar space inside one of the most beautiful abandoned churches I have ever set foot in. Unfortunately the vandals made it inside before I did...10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Vines taking over a psychiatric hospital building (full set in comments)11yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A photo of the former Kirkbride building at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in New Jersey, when the lights still worked. Photo from 2013. A year later this building was too far gone to save and demolition began.9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Beautiful stained glass behind the alter of a church that has been crumbling for nearly two decades. It is currently threatened with demolition.11yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
In Orange this morning. Yup, that's a school bus going around another school bus that has it's stop sign out.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/newjersey
An amazing abandoned church we found our way into after years of keeping an eye on it. (Full set in comments)8yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
This old, historic church is undergoing a slow death. The windows are boarded, while the stained glass and slate from the roof are being salvaged. It will soon become just another one of the dozens of empty lots in the area. (Full set from before demolition in comments)10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Since it's Sunday, here is a photo from my latest blog post. A pair of beautiful old monestery buildings with a few remaining artifacts. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Not sure if I posted this here already, but here is Philadelphia city hall from the roof of an abandoned tower.11yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
An electronic organ sits on the crumbling balcony of a 155 year old church. The stained glass and valuable metals have been removed, now the building is just waiting for its inevitable demolition.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Machines and graffiti in a century old, soon to be demolished pumping station.11yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A picture from the nave of a crumbling church. Sadly, this one is scheduled to be demolished as well.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Your cities beautiful city hall, as seen from the roof of a nearby tower [X- post from /r/cityporn]10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/philadelphia
Gave my grinder an alcohol bath. The result? A clean grinder, and about a gram of Everclear hash.11yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/trees
Some exceptionally dangerous stairs in a once beautiful hotel.11yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A chandelier still hangs in the former auditorium of this once grand theater.11yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Science lab in an abandoned high school, replete with books, Pyrex glass, and everything else they forgot to grab.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Stacked up cases of Sani-Glass inside a long abandoned sanatorium building. This structure, and it's three identical sister buildings, were packed with medical equipment and promptly forgotten. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
I remember a dude posted about an abandoned house he used to smoke at, some of you guys found t interesting. Well, this is at an abandoned Psychiatric hospital.11yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/trees
Soft exercise equipment inside an abandoned state hospital in Pennsylvania I finally visited recently. This floor was sealed off long before the hospital officially closed its doors. (Full set in comments)8yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
The imposing arched side entrance to a church that was shuttered with most of its artifacts intact. A rare and exciting find for me and my girlfriend.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A large marble desk sits in the lobby of an abandoned forensic psychiatric hospital. Despite the nature of the hospital, the buildings were gorgeous. (X- post from /r/modernruins)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Lights still on in a hallway of a massive, castle-like abandoned school. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Evidence locker in abandoned hospital building, previously occupied by county police.11yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
We found a brochure for an abandoned hospital while exploring it. The brochure had photos of the hospital from when it was active. Here's how the chapel has changed. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
This tagged auditorium is one of the few areas still intact in a mostly gutted school. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A rather blunt message in a mural in the inpatient rehab facility of an abandoned hospital.11yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A wall collage built by a deranged homeless person in an abandoned hospital. Items on the wall included clothing, dead animals, building materials, drug paraphernalia, and many more random items.11yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Anti suicide caging around the stairs at a forgotten psychiatric hospital.11yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Happy Halloween /r/urbanexploration. Here is a skeleton we found in the basement of an abandoned hospital. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A small, single body morgue rusts away in the basement of a forgotten hillside sanatorium building.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Some interesting antique dentist chairs hidden away in the attic of an otherwise empty hospital building.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A rotting spiral staircase inside one of the buildings on New York City's abandoned North Brother Island. This is where Typhoid Mary Mallon was isolated after she spread Typhus to more than 50 people. [Full set in comments]9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
The view of New York City from the roof of an abandoned school in Harlem. (Full set in comments)10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Hundreds and hundreds of desks piled up inside a dayroom in an abandoned hospital building. The structure is currently being renovated into a college dormitory. (Full set in comments)10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A gurney rusting away inside a surprisingly tag free hospital in a local city.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
This psychiatric hospital building has been left to rot for over a decade. The entire ceiling has fallen to the floor.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
The rotting indoor pool area of a large abandoned resort I visited last month. (Full set in comments)8yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
This used to a room full of files in the old Essex County Jail Annex. I used to spend hours thumbing through this paperwork. Some asshole had to light the room on fire, which then pushed the owners to demolish the awesome complex.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
The tile work in a cities abandoned subway concourse. This photo was taken outside the police station in the tunnels, vacated sometime after 9/11.11yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
This skybridge connected buildings of the former Hartz pet food headquarters in Harrison, NJ. Thousands and thousands of people traveling on Rt. 280 and the train passed this building every day before it's demotion.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
The impressive marble-lined grand entrance to a towering abandoned maternity ward.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
One of three dentist's chairs inside a rotting psychiatric hospital. The other one this size was set on fire in August 3 years back.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Natures perseverance: vines pushing their way through the blocks of an abandoned state hospital building. Some areas of the same building still have power...10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
These cell doors were taken down in a half assed attemp to scrap one of the greatest locations New Jersey had to offer; the Essex County Jail Annex10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A random stack of dishes, inside a group of abandoned psychiatric hospital buildings that has been empty for years.11yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A disgusting pool inside an abandoned skate park/roller rink/arcade/pool/health club/etc... building10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Some awesome stained glass in the front doors of a collapsing hotel.11yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
The last pieces of ornamental plasterwork cling to the walls in an old, crumbling theater. It went out of business after the 1968 race riots (x-post from /r/modernruins)10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Somewhat recent photo from an abandoned and overgrown former tuberculosis sanatorium. (Full set in comments)8yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
The ceiling and floor of this long abandoned psychiatric hospital building have completely degraded over the years, but the intact curtains still hang in place over a window.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A heavily abused chapel inside a nursing home, formerly a tuberculosis sanatorium. I regret not making a trip when I first found out about it years ago. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A fully staged classroom on the sealed off upper floors of a recently closed high school.11yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Pews sit in the nave of this decaying church, waiting for a sermon that will never come.11yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
One of the greatest abandoned locations New Jersey had to offer. The complex of abandoned towers known as the Jersey City Medical Center.11yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Abandoned Jersey diner, sitting right off the highway in Evesham.11yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A dark, yet colorful staircase in the basement of a hospital for epileptics.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
For those who haven't seen, demolition has been progressing at the Overbrook Hospital in Cedar Grove.8yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A laboratory in an abandoned forensic psychiatric hospital once operated by the U.S. Government.9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Manhattan, from the 17th floor of the rarely traversed Jersey City Medical Center.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A basketball court for employees in a massive abandoned power plant. (Full set in comments)9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Female entrance to abandoned high school (x-post to /r/modernruins)11yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Top floor classroom amphitheater at an abandoned New Jersey hospital.11yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A curved hallway leads to the wrought iron balcony on the top floor of an abandoned sanatorium. (Full set in comments)10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Before and after- the top floor landing of the main staircase in the Kirkbride building at Greystone Park. You can help stop the demolition, and the frivolous squandering of taxpayer dollars that demolition entails. More in comments.9yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/newjersey
A cage built inside if a psychiatric hospital stairwell, mostly to prevent patients from jumping. When you consider this was the walk up to the dentists office , can you really blame them?10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
For all those wishing spring would arrive already, this is my favorite non- processed photo I have ever taken. The copper is all gone now and the trees are still dead, but I look forward to sitting out on this roof again when the weather warms up.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
The same hospital, from the other side of the river. Taken from the top of WTC 1.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Teller counter in an abandoned bank (link to vault and rooftop pictures in comments)11yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
View of the control room overlooking giant turbines inside an incredibly intact power plant.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
A chair sits two boards away from a collapse in a church battered by tropical storm Sandy. (Full set in comments)10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Old police light bars in a garage often overlooked by visitors of the Essex County Jail Annex.11yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
The paint on the dome inside this amazing theater is peeling back, revealing some art from the buildings 1917 renovation. I can make out a centaur and a ram.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Occasionally you manage find cool stuff inside well known locations that are heavily vandalized. This scrabble board is from the 1940's if I remember correctly.10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
Grand hall of an abandoned mansion. Photo taken right after the place was heavily vandalized, and just before it was re-secured. (Full set in comments)10yr ⋅ EsseXploreR ⋅ r/urbanexploration
