There is something enticing about abandoned places. One can feel the past in such places, they have a peculiar smell. The nature is inevitably reclaiming them. A couple of years ago I entered a derelict cement plant in Jaworzno and instantly fell in love with the place. Since then I’ve […]
It’s no secret that mental health care in North America used to be something very close to torture for those who found themselves in the system. Luckily, governments realized this in the 1980s and ’90s and began to implement reforms and shutter abusive facilities. As a result, many former psychiatric […]
There are many reasons why houses become abandoned. Usually, it’s not just one single cause, but a variety of factors working together. Regardless, the result is always the same: an old, decaying home that was once filled with life slowly falling into decay. That was exactly what urban explorer Freaktography […]