The always interesting urban exploration crew at Trackrunners have assembled all of their various trips down beneath the streets of Barcelona into one long super-post, an epic catalog of all things lost and subterranean in that Spanish coastal city.
Built for a population in excess of a million—yet largely uninhabited to this day—it’s little surprise that Ordos has earned itself the nickname of China’s Ghost City.
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Andrew Emond, a Montreal-based photographer, amateur geographer, and DIY gonzo spelunker of the city’s sewers and lost rivers, has just re-launched his excellent website, Under Montreal. The revamped site now comes complete with a fascinating, interactive map of the city’s subterranean streams, documenting Montreal’s invisible rivers for all to see.
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At this point, we’ve all seen the insane Russian dudes who dangle off of tall things
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Say what you will about urban exploration as a hobby, these guys sure do find some cool shit sometimes. Thank God they take cameras with them.
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If you’ve watched with envy as the internet fills up with endless photo galleries of abandoned buildings in Detroit, perhaps now is your time to get in on the action: for the low, low price of only $45, you can buy a ticket and take locally-run "tours of abandoned factories, churches and schools." A Detroit ruin tour takes 3 hours, and taps into your inner J.M.W. Turner.
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"It’s dead quiet, and you feel like you’re the last man on earth. That’s incredibly rare in New York," says urban explorer Steve Duncan. Filmmaker Jon Kasbe followed Duncan—who many of you might recognize from 2011’s Undercity—down a sewer for the short film, A Beautiful Waste, released in July.
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