Adventures in eyesores.
I don’t have any urban exploration cred, but I do have every copy of Infiltration. Fortunately, others live a life I only read about. See the below pix for this week’s adventures in Houston, and for sight-seeing in Europe visit sleepycity.
Between marriage and cowardice, I have an aversion to risky behavior. While I would love to skydive, I’ve been informed that that is no longer an option (as is going to a strip club, which I never did despite 5 years single spent in New Orleans). While the idea of exploring abandoned buildings has intrigued me for some time, it will never happen. So it is through others I live vicariously, and no more so than the folks of Sleepy City.
If it was just exploring forgotten century-old tunnels behind the base of Niagara Falls or an abandoned rocket aimed at the center of the earth, that would be more than enough. But the adventures of visiting unused Soviet-era bases in Mongolia are just the icing on the cake. Living a dream I never even thought of having, these guys just amaze. So, scoff at their intentions or even disbelieve that anyone would even take an adventure like that. For me, it is proof that these guys carry on the traditions of great explorers long before them, this time with digital cameras and tattoos.
Other UE sites I like:
Urban Exploration, think of it as tourism with a touch of breaking & entering. But between being a coward and the scorn heaped upon me by my wife at the very mention of it, I have yet to do any UE. The closest I have come is buying all the issues of Infiltration Zine…
… a cool read about people willing to tell their tales. The zine and the Infiltration website were the brainchildren of Ninjalicious. But the future of the zine is up in the air since his passing of cancer this year.
Atlanta has its fare share of UE fans poking around the city’s bits. The Urban Exploration Resource website has a Georgia section and an Atlanta subsection. Earler this year, the city was host to APEX ’05, a “conference” for urban exploration enthusiast, which included an tour of the city’s abandoned attractions.
So, thanks to the internet for keeping me out of cool, abandoned buildings and free from tetanus because I stepped on a nail in the dark.
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Related Links with loads of pictures:
See Pie Bar before it was over-priced – Georgia National Trust.
The amazing and huge 1903 Canfranc International Railway Station.
Massive Japanese Website with an abandoned amusement park amongst other places.
Abandoned city/island – Gunkanjima – Views of an Abandoned Island
Neon Poisoning 