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Black Cokes (BE) – A desolate industrial site near the river Sambre

July 16, 2019July 16, 2019 by Pepper

Once prosperous and influential due to mining and steel industry, now a city that looks gloomy and blows the last smoke out of the chimney of the remaining steel works.

Château des Muscles

May 31, 2019May 31, 2019 by Pepper

We visited this great location during a two-day trip and I was very glad that we could find and enter this huge complex. As a matter of fact, pretty special how we could come in … the backdoor was just invitingly open!

Château Lindenbosch (BE) – Abandoned, burned down and destroyed

May 3, 2019May 3, 2019 by Pepper

Anyone who drives along the A12 from Brussels to Antwerp, or vice versa, knows the Chateau Lindenbosch. The castle was built in 1895.

Oasthoek Ouwedyk (NL)

May 3, 2019May 3, 2019 by Pepper

Somewhere on the longest street in the Netherlands, with residents who are a colorful mix of born Ouwedyksters, cosmopolitan Dutch people and artistic dropouts.

Veradmedklinik (DE) – Abandoned clinic, unfortunately hermetically sealed by airsofters

April 4, 2019 by Pepper

Château de Al Mère (NL) – waiting for the guests to arrive

March 14, 2019 by Pepper

Château de Al Mère is a half-finished castle, meant to be a hotel: construction started in 2000 but was stopped in 2002, after which the structure was turned into a modern ruin. The castle is still waiting for its first guests to arrive…

Nursing Home Snippendael (NL) – Up to the white light of eternity

March 10, 2019 by Pepper

Here, upon these ghostly shadows of men and women
There are no smiles
Singly, they mingle, with the greyness of the walls
And at strange angels, they travel on to nowhere

Buorkerij Goudûle (NL) – Nice abandoned farmhouse in the middle of nowhere

March 5, 2019February 16, 2019 by Pepper

I discovered this abandoned farmhouse, hidden in the middle of nowhere, while searching at Maps. The first time here I couldn’t get in, but now everything was open, so entering was no problem.

Farm Westerkleaster (NL) – part 2

February 5, 2019February 5, 2019 by Pepper

This abandoned farm, in the middle of the Frisian meadows, was bought by a monastic community after the farmer’s death. There has to be a lot of restoration and sadly enough, there’s no investor up to now.

Mono Orphanage (IT) – Abandoned orphanage at the Italian-Swiss border.

December 8, 2018 by Pepper

Mono Orphanage, a.k.a. Crying Baby Hospital, is an abandoned orphanage at the Italian-Swiss border. Until the 1970s, nuns prayed, lived and taught to the orphans here. The children mainly came here to cure tuberculosis.