News: Coal Mine Fire in Pennsylvania Ghost Town

This town has been on fire for years and might continue to be so for the next few centuries.

News: This puts a macabre slant on 1950s couples' twin beds

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News: Not Your Normal Abandoned Building

This is enough to give you butterflies and to make you feel all tingly inside. It's one of the best sites on abandoned buildings I have ever seen, visually speaking.

News: An anthropological look at "orphaned structures"

I'm really happy to find that this anthropology graduate student (Jennifer L. Johnson) started a website on "orphaned structures." The photos are taken by Robert Poliodori.

News: Undercity | The wilderness below New York City

News: Cabrini-Green Projects Almost Completely Abandoned Now

CHICAGO (AP) — To some, Cabrini-Green's infamous high-rises were a symbol of urban blight — towering testaments to the failure of Chicago public housing to give safe shelter to the poorest of the poor.

News: Top 5 Scariest Abandoned Prisons in the United States

Though the article originally states these are the "top 5 scariest abandoned prisons from around the world", I would think "North America" would be more appropriate, since they all reside within the United States. On the list are:

News: Danvers State Insane Asylum in Massachusetts = Luxury Living

Perhaps one of the greatest embodiments of urban exploration lies in a disturbing and volatile mental health facility in Massachusetts, and its story starts with...

News: Fictional and Documentary Films with Urban Exploration

Urban exploration is unfamiliar territory for most people, unexplored mostly because of deplorable safety and legality concerns that most adventurers fear.