Have you ever explored an abandoned place?

Yeah, I am fascinated with old motor inns and I have explored some abandoned ones, you really have to be careful, snakes,street people living in them,plus walls that fall and such. Went into one abandoned motor inn lobby once and found a book on the floor containing people that frequented the place's names and addresses, I left it in a drawer, I was gonna destroy it,but I thought about it, the addresses and names were from the mid 1960s and there was no financial risk information,so I just left it in it's tomb.

On the farm we'd go for long walks on farm roads and find abandoned houses, usually small frame houses with hip roofs and they had been abandoned for decades....we'd walk inside and usually there was a calendar hanging on the wall so we got an idea of how long the home had been vacant. Most of them didn't have electricity or indoor plumbing, oilcloth wallpaper hanging in tatters, that's how long they'd been abandoned and sometimes broken windows from storms. In my grandfather's village 2 miles up the road from our farm there were dozens of abandoned homes and a few businesses. An old blacksmith shop that was probably built before Jesse James rode through the village, some of the antique blacksmith tools and anvils still stored inside. There was an old 2-story brick schoolhouse that a farmer bought to store hay....the hay was gone so we walked inside and saw those antique desks, the kind with the seat on front of the desks like they had in Little House on the Prairie. Blackboards with the names of the students and the last day of classes, all written in different colors of chalk. The town was all but deserted after WWII because the railroad was no longer needed to haul farm products. There were dozens of homes, some Victorian but mostly cottages and they were left unlocked and always fun to explore, one had an old piano left in the living room and lace curtains hanging down to the floor in the long windows. Too bad we didn't have digital cameras back then, I would love to have dozens or hundreds of photos of that ghost town, it is considered a ghost town and in a registry of Missouri ghost towns even though about 100 people lived there back in the 1960's...a lot less than that now.

A couple of abandoned churches on Maui, and some abandoned buildings here in Central California. Very fascinating feeling their histories.

We explored a caved in basement and found pewter ware and a cross that had to be 200 years old or more.

Abandoned mines and houses.

Any and everywhere