Image Galleries Urban Exploration Outdoors

For sites which focus on images (photographs) of urban and rural exploration. Sites which focus on a specific location should be listed in the Regional subcategories.

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• Flickr: aPeeling Paint - For images of peeling, weathered paint.
  
• Flickr: Junk - Pictures of scrap metal, junkyards, rubbish dumps, anyplace where stuff goes to die. Dead metal.
  
• Flickr: Urbex - Dedicated to urbex or urban exploration.
  
• Forsaken By Society Trilogy - Places - CARF's photo weblog. Places forgotten by society.
  
• Flickr: Decaying - Anything decaying: urban, rural, industrial, or natural. Photos from around the world.
  
• Flickr: Photographing Prohibited - Photos taken in prohibited locations. Infiltrating industrial plants, military installations, concerts, train and metro stations.
  
• PURP: Penguins Under a Reactionary Planet - Draining and stencil graffiti. Urban exploration and graphic art.
  
• Flickr: Military Decay - Abandoned, rotting or dismantled military objects and facilities.
  
• Flickr: Abandoned - Places and things which have been abandoned.
  
• Flickr: Weathered Wood - Images of wood that's been weathered. Whether by wind, sun, water, or a combination. The grayer, the rougher, the better. Buildings, pier pilings, driftwood, you get the picture.
  
• Flickr: Old Houses - Pictures of old houses 90, 100 years old or older.
  
• Flickr: Rural Darkness - The only major criteria for posting images to this group is a rural setting (or at least evoking a rural mood or feeling of isolation) plus a dark aura (or sense of dread). Think rural decay but with a more Gothic or eerie sensibility.
  
• Flickr: Art of Urbex - This group is more specifically aimed at urban exploration photography as an art form using light and or available elements in an artistic fashion.
  
• Flickr: Rusty - Photos of the items covered with or consisting of rust, or rusted.
  
• Flickr: Forgotten Things - Not just abandoned, this group is for things that seem to simply have been forgotten: old cemeteries, rusty cars, swingsets. Non-living things only. These are the things you know will still be there, unattended, if you drive by 10 years from now.
  
• Flickr: Closed for Business - Shops, stores, restaurants, cafes, retail and public buildings, that have ceased business and are falling into a state of decay and rot.
  
• Flickr: Abandoned to Time - Pictures of anything abandoned, mainly buildings. Rough, ransacked, dirty, torn-down, and messy.
  
• Flickr: Battered Beauty - Beautiful things that are tattered, cracked, rusted, bruised, broken, burned, or busted in any way.
  
• Kim Koester - Online galleries from Kim J. Köster.
  
• Flickr: Trashy Houses - Post your photos of (not abandoned) derelict homes that amaze you because of condition, yard art, or just plain decay. No abandoned or storm-damaged homes, only those that are occupied.
  
• Flickr: Industrial Abandonment - Abandoned industrial buildings.
  
• Flickr: Eyðibýli - Abandoned Houses - Photos of abandoned houses, buildings and ruins.
  
• Industrial Archaeology - Buildings and other man made creations from the start of the automobile age that have started to decay.
  
• Flickr: Abandoned Farms - Photos of abandoned farms, ruins and other rural buildings decaying.
  
• Flickr: Old Buildings and More - Old buildings, houses, streets, markets, national monuments, bridges or even a building in ruins.
  
• Flickr: Abandoned Cottages - Pictures of abandoned and lost cottages in the city, villages or countryside.
  
• Flickr: Machinescapes - Artistic photographs of machines, metals, gears, engines, pulleys, industrial equipment, axles, miscellaneous mechanisms, grease, grime, grit, junk. The inner-workings of anything. Abstract or linear, anything goes.
  
• Flickr: Old Stones - By stone we mean rock shaped by humans. By old we mean at least 100 years, but something like 1000 years would be more appropriate.
  
• Flickr: Abandoned Building Art - Photos and art found in and around abandoned buildings and houses.
  
• Flickr: Palaces, Castles, Towers, Pagodas, Fortresses And Ruins of Old - Pictures of pre-Medieval, Medieval and post-Medieval towers, lighthouses, castles, fortresses, and especially remnants thereof.
  
• Flickr: Antiquity Abating - Snap a picture of an old building, house, farm or other structure, tag it with the location, and post it to this group. We may not be able to rebuild them, but we can remember them.
  
• Flickr: The Unconscious Art Of Demolition - Pictures of the unconscious aesthetical creations resulting from the destruction of man-made structures.
  
• Flickr: Stairs in Decay - Stairs in decay, as part of old and abandoned buildings.
  
• RottenEggs Urban Adventures - Commercial site that allows registered users to post messages on urban adventures and explorations.
  
• Flickr: Any Derelict Building - Any kind of buildings (outside/ inside): abandoned, derelict, uninhabited, empty, unoccupied, tumbledown, broken-down, ramshackle, run-down, ruined.
  
• Flickr: Old And Beautiful - A group for old buildings, barns, shacks, abandoned homes, and any other old falling down structures.
  
• Flickr: Desecrated - A group to illustrate and protest the desecration/ vandalism of cemeteries.
  
• Flickr: Rusty and Crusty - Rusting, crusting, rotting, decomposing and just plain falling apart.
  
• Flickr: Decaying Urban Artscapes - A collection of decaying urban wall textures, spontaneous guerilla art, fragments of political dissent and abstruse messages.
  
• Bill Hocker Photographs - Collection of industrial photographs.
  
• Flickr: Wonders of Oxidation - This group is dedicated to creative and artsy photos of oxidation and the wonders it creates.
  
• Flickr: Church Ruins - The group for church and chapel ruins. This can include ruined abbeys, priories, monasteries and friaries.
  
• Flickr: Historical Places - Group to post photos of favourite historical places.
  
• RuralRuin's LiveJournal - Sharing photographs from explorations around the world.
  
• 99 Rooms - A project of Kim Koester, Richard Schumann, Stephan Schulz and Johannes Buenemann. Walk through the sights and hear the sounds of a dilapidated structure.
  
• Flickr: Architecture of Old - A particular style or fashion of a building, especially one that is typical of a period of history or of a particular place.
  
• Flickr: Urban Explorers - Photos and stories about abandoned paper mills, condemned hospitals, decaying barns.
  
• Flickr: Suburban Decay - All about the little things in suburbia that are unexpectedly macabre, dying, decaying, or otherwise at odds with the peaceful suburban lifestyle.
  
• Flickr: League of the Empty Chair - The key is the emptiness, uncanny lack of belonging that the chair represents.
  
• Flickr: Rural Exploration - This group is for those who explore the interiors of abandoned buildings in rural settings.
  
• Flickr: Urban Spelunkers - Going into abandoned buildings, storm drains, tunnels, anywhere man made that is not meant for most people to see.
  
• Flickr: Tunnel... Corridor... Underpass... - Exploring in the depths of the concrete jungle.
  
• Flickr: Damage - Pictures of damaged items and places.
  
• Flickr: Beauty of Decay - Beauty in decaying buildings and their accessories.
  
• Flickr: Abandoned Furniture - Take photos of furniture you've come across on the street and submit them here.
  
• Flickr: Houses and Homes - Pictures (from as many parts of the world as possible) of exteriors of interesting houses/ homes.
  
• Flickr: Ruins - Photos of building and structures ruined by the passage of time.
  
• Flickr: Spiral Stairway - For the image without end, a staircase towards the paradise, myth or poetry of the spiral. Group to share images of spiral staircases.
  
• Flickr: Old Churches - Group to share photos of old churches.
  
• Flickr: Derelict Light - Photos of light at the scene of an abandoned building or place.
  
• Flickr: Reclaimed By Nature - Shots of man made things that nature has decided to take for its own.
  
• Flickr: Abandoned Places and Things - Sharing photos which show the interesting aspects of abandoned places, buildings and things.
  
• Flickr: Infiltration - Pictures of places you're not supposed to go.
  
• Flickr: Dead Signs - Collection of abandoned and/ or derelict signs.
  
• Flickr: Overgrown - This is a group for pictures where any object or item is being taken over by nature. Overgrown, plants, vines, weeds, obscuring some object.
  
• Flickr: The Abandoned - Post pictures of anything that has been abandoned. Buildings, junk on the side of the road, and the like.
  
• Flickr: Ghosts From The Machine - In post-industrial environments, there are many reminders, echoes, hints or ghosts of our industrial past.
  
• Flickr: Vanishing Beauty - This group is for all of those beautiful, old things which are disappearing from our world: old buildings, wonderful old walls, old mechanical devices like typewriters and parking meters. If you can't preserve it physically, preserve it photographically.
  
• Flickr: The Old - Old destroyed objects, abandoned places, houses, factories.
  
• Flickr: GhostRails - Photos of railroads, railroad equipment, locomotives which are no longer being used.
  
• Flickr: Rural Decay - Pictures of barns, silos, farms and other rural buildings decaying. Objects now part of the landscape are also welcome, such as tractors, or old farm equipment.
  
• Flickr: Factories - All kinds of factories: derelict or full of life, new or old, large or small.
  
• Flickr: This Old House - Not houses that are falling down, but old houses that can be remodeled and preserved. Old historic houses.
  
• Flickr: Abandoned, Neglected, Weathered, or Rusty - Anything old, neglected, abandoned, falling apart, or rusting.
  
• Urban Nature - Photoblog and Flickr group for images of nature in an urban context.
  
• Flickr: Strange Places - Pictures taken in strange places, places pictures should not be taken.
  
• Flickr: Mouldy Old Stones - Photographs of standing stones, historical monuments (such as castles), and the landscape they exist within.
  
• Flickr: Museum of Dust - Dust storms and clouds, dust bunnies, drifts of dust and tornadoes for example.
  
• Flickr: Leaning Houses - Houses and other buildings that have one thing in common, they lean.
  
• Flickr: Tales of the Forgotten Lands and Places - Photos of industrial waste land or old factories.
  
• Flickr: You Can't Take Pictures Here - Places, situations where you have been told not to take pictures. Examples are military, government or scientific establishments of any kind, hospitals, churches.
  
• Flickr: Subterranean Areas - Basements, underground stations, tunnels, underground parking decks, abandoned or still in use.
  
• Decayed Machinery - Photographs and drawings of derelict machinery.
  
• Flickr: Octagon Houses (and Other Curious Buildings) - Group to share and discuss photos of round shaped houses. Some are derelict but it's not necessary.
  
• Live Journal: Ephemeral Village's Journal - Photo journal for small towns only. Documenting disappearing towns, once bustling and useful, now decrepit and crumbling.
  
• Flickr: Out to Pasture - Old cars, farm equipment, machinery, that has been put out to pasture.
  
• Flickr: Old Windows and Frames - This is a group for pictures of old windows and window frames.
  
• Sleepy City - Photographically deconstructing the urban environment. Underground tunnels, derelict industrial sites and urban ruins.
  
• Flickr: Beautiful Decay - This group is intended to contain images that show decay in an aesthetic way.
  
• Flickr: Fixer-Uppers - Sharing photos of old, condemned homes and buildings.
  
• Flickr: Faded Signage - Signs past. Having lost their message, separated from the thing that they once advertised, or even those still trucking along, not yet replaced.
  
• Flickr: Dilapidated Houses - Old houses showing decay or breaking down.
  
• Flickr: Trespassing - This group is for shots taken in areas where most people don't often venture (not necessarily breaking trespassing laws). The spin of this group should be somewhat journalistic, so as to show a viewer an off-limits area.
  
• Flickr: TOP UrbX - Showcasing the best (top standards) urban exploration photos.
  
• Flickr: Things that Moved - Things that moved but don't anymore. Broken down and retired vehicles. Planes, trains, automobiles, riding mowers. Does not include buildings and things that never moved.
  
• Flickr: Dead Malls & Vacant Retail - Pictures of abandoned retail facilities, inside and out.
  
• Flickr: Not in Use - Things which are preferably old, not used anymore or used for a totally different purpose.
  
• Flickr: Downtrodden Docks - This site is dedicated to images of abandoned docks and piers.
  
• Flickr: Factory - New, old and defunct factories in photos.
  
• Flickr: That Old Timey Feeling - Anything old, that old rusted car in your back yard, the old abandoned house down the street, that rustic looking boat that has been sitting on blocks for years at your local marina, just about anything you find in your parents or grandparents attic.
  
• Flickr: Beyond Repair - Anything so far beyond decay you know it isn't coming back.
  
• Flickr: All Things Rusty - Rusted objects and places. Anything derelict, with a good coat of rust.
  
• Flickr: If These Walls Could Talk... - Photos of old buildings, structures that look like they have a story behind them. Please add details such as location and the kind of structure it is.
  
• Flickr: Asylums for the Insane - An exploration of mental hospitals, asylums and housing for the insane.
  
• Flickr: Lonely Houses - Photos of houses in empty spaces, as a lonely strong sign in landscape. Most are abandoned homes.
  
• Flickr: Junk Beauties - Photos of scrap, jetsom and flotsom, whatever you call piles of junk that can be recycled back into art.
  
• Requiem Wanderer - A collection of photographs of locations in the urban and industrial environment. [Requires Flash]
  
• Flickr: Industrial Archaeology - All about abandoned factories, of every type, from every part of the world.
  
• Flickr: Urban Abandonments - Show off your best abandoned urban relic finds.
  
• Thom: Decay Gallery - Craig S. Thom, photo gallery of abandoned buildings and places. Available to be sent as postcards.
  
• Flickr: Industrial Night Shots - Industry landscapes at night.
  
• Flickr: Bridges and Tunnels - This is a public group for pictures of bridges or tunnels.
  
• Flickr: Ghost Towns - Lost places, once inhabited towns and forgotten futures of the American Old West.
  
• Flickr: Barns, Sheds and other Rustic Rural Buildings - Barns, sheds, smoke houses, dilapidated farm houses and other rustic and rural buildings.
  
• Flickr: Demolished Demolition Gone - Photos of buildings or significant structures, now demolished or removed since originally photographed.
  
• Flickr: Old, Rusty & Corroded - Photographs of old, broken, rusty things. Group began for vehicles but has grown to include anything.
  
• Flickr: Ghost Signs - Gallery of old, painted commercial signs faded with age.
  
• Flickr: Forsaken By Society - People, places or things which have been abandoned, forgotten or ignored.
  
• Flickr: Macro Decay - Photos of urban decay, does not include things that can be restored.
  
• Flickr: Old & Abandonned - Old and abandoned buildings, industrial places, burned out places. Some may be creepy looking but anything which has been pretty much forgotten and left to decay.
  
• Flickr: Old Buildings Bridges Landmarks - Old buildings bridges or landmarks. Share the histoy in pictures of any historic place you may have been.
  
• 75mg - This is a collection of paintings involving abandoned institutions. Includes photographs of sites visited.
  
• Flickr: Entropy - About the pleasure to be found in decay, the inevitable passage of the pretentious and the grandiose.
  
• Flickr: Forbidden - A group for photographers who have found themselves being forbidden to take photos of some thing or place.
  
• Flickr: No Trespassing - A group for those taking pictures in places that have Do Not Enter or No Trespassing signs.
  
• Flickr: Urban Fragments - Photos of architectural details and ephemera: bits of carving and molding, doors and windows, peeling paint, rusty metal, old brickwork, decaying wood, graffiti, signs, murals, urban art, billboards. No photos with people in them.
  
• Flickr: Old Structures. - Structures of all kinds. Mostly abandoned or still in limited use.
  
• Flickr: Chairs at Abandonments - It's an eerie phenomenon, but there always seem to be an odd chair or something of that genre in abandonments. Only post chairs, sofas, benches and the such found in abandoned, desolate locations.
  
• Flickr: Urban Entropy - All closed systems will eventually break down and chaos will ensue.
  
• Flickr: Enter the Machine - Images that go beyond simple industrial photography. Capturing the color of rust, the feeling of an abandoned factory, the patterns in flaking paint, a vanishing point in a mill.
  
• Flickr: The Rust Bucket - Photos of anything that is rusted and weathered.
  
• Flickr: Abandonded Gas Stations - Rusty old gas pumps and abandoned gas stations.
  
• Flickr: Doors and Windows in Decay - Could be new or old, urban or rural, but must be clearly decaying and not stuff that could be resolved with a wet cloth and some detergent.
  
• Flickr: Urban Secret & Forgotten Places - Places in the heart of populated places that are forgotten, or hard to reach.
  
• Flickr: Peeled and Patched Walls - Group to share photos of peeling and patched walls.
  
• Flickr: Abandoned Rooms - Empty (or nearly) rooms in abandoned houses.
  
• Flickr: Dams & Spillways - Collecting photographs of dams, spillways, and anything attached to them.
  
• Flickr: Exploring Abandonments - For those who explore inside abandoned and semi-abandoned buildings. Just taking pictures from outside isn't enough.
  
• Flickr: Urban Decay - Rundown buildings, neighborhoods and all things within.
  
• Flickr: Construction and Deconstruction - Demolition of old buildings and construction of new places.
  
• Flickr: Former Theaters - Photos of theaters that are either no longer in use (abandoned, condemned) or have been transformed into something else but still structurally resemble theaters.
  
• Flickr: HDR Decay - This is a group exclusively for HDR photographs featuring decay.
  
• Flickr: The End of Industry - Factories, mills, mines, refineries, all left to rot, and worse.
  
• Flickr: Industry - Urban exploration, industrial archeology and modern industry photography.
  
• Flickr: Old & Forgotten - Buildings and other things that are old, weathered and forgotten.
  
• Flickr: Storm Drains & Sewers - Sharing photos from the inside of storm drains and sewers.
  
• Flickr: Disused Railways - Disused railways, tracks, platforms, empty stations, viaducts, bridges, tunnels. But no trains.
  
• Flickr: Signless Signs - Posts without signs, empty sign-frames, empty billboards and/or marquees.
  
• Flickr: Rural Deterioration - Pictures of rural buildings deteriorating and decaying. Must be man made and must be rural ie: old or ruined houses, sheds, doors, windows, churches.
  
• Modern Ruins - Photographic essays include explorations of a girls orphanage, insane asylum, hospital, crypt, and steel plant.
  
• Flickr: Doors - Photos of doors, mostly old, in rough shape or otherwise notable.
  
• Flickr: Desperate HouseLives - Photos of homes, houses and residences in all kinds of disrepair.
  
• Flickr: Dereliction - A group to share photos of all things old, rusty and derelict.
  
• Flickr: Tunnels, Pipes, Holes. - Exploring tunnels, pipes, holes, drains, the world underneath.
  
• Flickr: Restricted Access - Urban exploration: buildings and sites with posted signs telling you not to go there. (No Trespassing, Restricted Access.)
  
• Flickr: Industrial Decay - Abandoned industry, decaying machinery and vehicles, derelict industrial buildings and other facilities. The older the building, machine or structure, the better. Abandoned locations preferred but not required.
  
• Flickr: Dilapidated Buildings - Post your photos of dilapidated buildings (residential or commercial).
  
• Flickr: Forgotten - Things forgotten, if only for a minute, or an endless period of time.
  
• Flickr: Death of the Service Station - Add your images to document the death of the service station, or to inject some optimism, add some hope with images demonstrating the restoration/ revival of it.
  
• Flickr: Condemned - Photos of houses, factories, buildings that are about to be burned or torn down.
  
• Dylan Trigg: The Poetics of Decay - Resource for essays on decay, urban exploration and the aesthetics of urban ruins.
  
• Flickr: Abandon: The Secret Lives of Deserted Buildings - Photos which show the building acquiring a new character. Shots that are just straight documentary records of simple unoccupied spaces are not appropriate for this group.
  
  

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