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Text by Nick Mafi, Photography by Matt Emmett, Architectural Digest.


This historic stock-trading house in Antwerp, Belgium, is better known as the Chambre du Commerce. Rumor has it this building will eventually be transformed into a glamorous h...

With more than 800,000 images, the Instagram hashtag #urbex has more than proved its popularity. Expand your horizons by discovering these ten popular urban exploration locations around the world.

Gregory Berg, a New York City photographer who has 5,000 followers on Instagram, said that fear of being shocked by the subway's third rail or hit by a passing train is 'only mental'.

Ruin porn, decay tourism, urban exploration — they’re all buzz phrases describing abandonography, the photography of abandoned buildings.

Urban explorers in Detroit have stumbled across a a collection of sports cards thought to be worth more than $1million. The cards from the 1980s and 90s were left in an abandoned factory in the city.

Gothamist Roaming The Forbidden Zones With NYC's Young Urban Explorers Gothamist Since he quit taking film classes, the 23-year-old Brooklyn native and former skateboarder spends almost all of his free time accessing rooftops, subway tunnels,...

Fortunately, with these tips, urban exploration can be a legitimate hobby without the risks of illegal building infiltration.

Urban exploration is a practice of researching, rediscovering and physically exploring temporary, obsolete,abandoned, derelict and infrastructural areas within built environments without permission to do so. Drawing from four years of ethnographic

Drones have changed the landscape of urban exploration and building infiltration, allowing their navigators access to toxic, irradiated, forbidden and structurally unsound places. These haunting vi...

Urban Explorers and other enthusiasts are documenting abandoned buildings and transforming them into artful photography.