Abandoned Midwestern Elementary School

On a very cold, yet sunny morning we had ventured many miles, and somehow we ended up here to finish out the day! This small school house complex in the Midwest used to be the heart of learning in the area. At one time they even added an extra building here to accommodate the growing … Read more

3 Building Complex – Two Separate Days

What Follows are WAY TOO MANY PICTURES from our first two days at this site! We had tried numerous times to gain access to this historic 3 building complex with no luck. This morning after a few early explores we decided to drive by again and tug on some doors. This time our luck would … Read more

A Shuttered Mineral Processing Plant (Minerals & Murals)

This Morning was shaping up just like a pile of our other mornings recently! We had our coffee, a vehicle loaded with supplies, and a destination I was unaware of! We had plans to get into this old industrial building under the cover of darkness. Knowing nothing about this site or how far away it … Read more

Abandoned Midwestern Hotel And Conference Center (Surprise Find)

Our explores were firmly straddling the state line like a modern day Colossus of Rhodes! On this super cold March morning in 2024 our initial target for exploration was a bust, as the building had been recently demolished. That demolished site we were now standing in front of was almost an hour away from our … Read more

Abandoned Midwestern Women’s Minimum Security Prison – March 24′

As with a pile of our previous explores, we were certainly late to the party. This was my birthday pick, and an outa state prison seemed like a fun trip. Being our first major road trip of the season, we were ready for anything. We headed out of town with a packed vehicle and a … Read more

Abandoned Parchment Papermill April 2024 – The Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Company – KVP

This gallery contains pics of DOD’s second time to this site! On the first visit to this site I was alone, and that will have its own post in the next few months, STAY TUNED! Both of these posts will be some of our largest posts to date. We just couldn’t stop taking pictures or … Read more

Huge Decaying Religious & Educational Campus in the Midwest (pics from a few more recent visits) *** The Bird Incident***

TL;DR – History is fun and the caring people who lived and worked here strove towards benefiting the lives of countless individuals! This entire complex has such a rich and layered history. Since it’s inception, this place has been helping to better the lives of all individuals with disabilities, learning or otherwise. At a time … Read more

Active Demolition at Filer and Stowell’s Milwaukee Headquarters. Winter ’24

On a wintery morning in early ’24, we just happened to drive by a site that was on our list. While this site had been on our list for some time, we had completely overlooked it. Now under active demolition, this massive part of Wisconsin’s industrial history lay before us. This site was larger than … Read more

“Audio Farmhouse” Dec. 2023

I’ve officially given up on trying to release our explores in chronological order. They will come out in whatever order makes us happy! All that being said, we are sorry if you get a little overlap from this new release plan. Since we have been, and will continue to road trip a bit more this … Read more

A Quick Recon Turns Into An Unplanned Explore! Aug. ’23 S.G. Courteen Seed Warehouse

This morning started out like most of our summer mornings. We loaded up our gear and headed out to parts mostly forgotten! By the time we reached this site, we had been “at it” for a few hours already, and we were both pretty exhausted from trudging around on uneven footings and overgrown landscapes. We … Read more

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