If you find yourself driving out towards the 400, or on a sight seeing trip through scenic South Buffalo, you might notice off to the side of the highway a…
Sometimes opportunity knocks, other times it billows hundreds of feet into the air. A few years ago a largely abandoned machine-shop-turned-warehouse caught fire and chased out what little activity the…
During the early decades of the Cold War, President Eisenhower’s administration had concerns that if Russia decided to send all of their bombers over the US at once and drop…
Tonawanda Coke is probably the second most toxic location we’ve been to. For the past few years the EPA and a local environmentalist group named the Clean Air Coalition of…
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For three years now I’ve been going with my fiancé, Sam, and her family to the Seneca (or, previously, Veteran’s) Pow Wow in Salamanca, NY. It’s a big event for…
The Greco-Roman orphanage was a large complex located on the East Side of Buffalo almost directly across the highway from the Science museum. It was also the largest non-industrial site…
Safety is important. When urban exploring one must make sure to always put their own and others safety first. No, really. People sometimes do really stupid things when you take…
I’ve always wondered what I’d say to someone who asked me, “What is it that drives you toward urban exploration?” Of course, no one has yet to ask me this…