Another cooling tower!!. It was pissing down with rain and freezing on the day we went here. We got a train to the town in which this awesome place was located. We walked for about 45 minutes from the station to our destination and, after checking that the coast was clear, climbed a metal ladder and snuck inside. The interior was beautiful!!..... and it was awesome to be inside another cooling tower. This one was interesting because of the little house/shed thing plonked

The abandoned stock exchange rates highly with urban explorers and it was high on my list of 'must see' places. We got to the city in the morning to meet up with another mate who had done this haunt a few times before and made our way towards his usual entrance. It was boarded up with no chance of getting in.....so we walked around the back and, as soon as the coast was clear, squeezed our way through a locked gate. We pulled on a heavy door handle and, to our luck, it ope

This place was awesome. The convent was actually right next to the abandoned chapel (as blogged about earlier). It was kind of like a combination between a convent and a hospital....however whichever way we viewed it, it was beautiful. We were first greeted by a creepy old lounge chair sitting sinister in front of an old television. We ventured further in and climbed a stairway to the upper level. Each room was awesome in its own way.....some rooms had dirty hospital bed

This place was ok. No major thrills (ie: no cool hospital equipment or beds to photograph), but the sparse interior was kind of nice and the 1940's orange tiles on the walls gave the space a nice, warm light. The two major draw cards here were the front circular windows which were awesome and looked great when the afternoon light hit it, and a nice semi crumbling stairway covered in dirt. We stayed here for a while and then got busted on the way out by this bloke who told

Powerplant IM had always been high on our list of must see places. We'd been drooling over pictures of this otherworldy moss covered funnel for a long time and finally, on a freezing cold pissy rainy day, we were on our way there. Located on the outskirts of a dirty industrial town in Belgium, we parked our car in a back lot behind a factory and walked through the rain with our camera gear. Finally this huge vast industrial tower appeared before us and we nearly pissed our

Standing at approximatley 48 meters high, the Shime Coal Mine (aka The Zombie Tower) was built in 1943 and ceased operating in 1964. The structure still stands proud and beautiful on the outskirts of Fukuoka. Back in its hey day, the top of the tower housed a bunch of offices and from its centre, a huge cable wound 1400 meters into the depths of the mine below. Very popular place for Japanese photographers. #abandonedjapan #haikyo #shanethoms

A long abandoned bath house in the hills in the Kansai area. It was located in a forest and extremely waterlogged. #abandonedjapan #ShaneThoms

A crumbling long abandoned hotel beside a river in Nara Prefecture. Inside I found a beautiful collapsed staircase. #ShaneThoms #abandonedjapan

I found this lonely derelict two story roadhouse while driving through Ibaraki Prefecture. It was plonked on a long stretch of empty road in the middle of nowehere so I slowed down and peeked through its windows. I realised it was abandoned after I spotted a number of white ripped lanterns dangling from its ceiling, so parked the car up the road and grabbed my stuff and walked back to check it out. A long hallway stemmed from the front desk all the way down to a larger re

Initially built to house the workers of a neighbouring mine, this forgotten mountain village became abandoned after the desertion of its employees. Now derelict, decayed and forgotten at the end of a winding mountain road, some vestiges of its former glory can be found scattered in and around its buildings. Still containing medicine bottles, surgical tools, X rays, books and dental equipment, the severely waterlogged and rotting wooden hospital hides behind a jungle of trees