Urban Exploration

When Your Step Dad Knows Of  A Spot! German Homestead/Kennedy Papers House

When Your Step Dad Knows Of A Spot! German Homestead/Kennedy Papers House

While out of town to visit my parents, we planned to do a little exploring. After returning from our…

Spooky Season “Year End” Wrap Up

Spooky Season “Year End” Wrap Up

With spooky season fast approaching(This post should’ve been out a while ago, but here we are)…

Abandoned Midwestern Elementary School

Abandoned Midwestern Elementary School

On a very cold, yet sunny morning we had ventured many miles, and somehow we ended up here to finish…

3 Building Complex – Two Separate Days

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 t…

A Shuttered Mineral Processing Plant (Minerals & Murals)

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 ve…

Abandoned Midwestern Hotel And Conference Center (Surprise Find)

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 sup…

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

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 p…

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

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 …

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

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 benefiti…

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

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. W…

“Audio Farmhouse” Dec. 2023

“Audio Farmhouse” Dec. 2023

I’ve officially given up on trying to release our explores in chronological order. They will c…

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

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 p…

August ’23 Wauwatosa’s Sanctuary Woods & Schlitz Brewery Ice Tunnel

August ’23 Wauwatosa’s Sanctuary Woods & Schlitz Brewery Ice Tunnel

This August day was forecast to be a hot one! Trying to beat the heat, we hooked up early, grabbed o…

Local Street Art Gallery : Summer 2023

Local Street Art Gallery : Summer 2023

This explore was again on one of our many stop mornings! We had already roamed through a few planned…

Laps around the local area Part 2.  7.30.23

Laps around the local area Part 2. 7.30.23

Continuing our multi-stop mornings we hooked up early in the am and headed out to a few spots we had…

Laps around the local area 7.29-30.23

Laps around the local area 7.29-30.23

Last summer we made a conscious effort to start hitting multiple sites each time we went out on an e…

Northwoods WI 7.15.23 Water access only!

Northwoods WI 7.15.23 Water access only!

Northwoods : Lincoln County WI. These two sites were frozen in place and time respectively! While up…

Local Hit & Run 6.18.23 Multi use Building in West Allis WI

Local Hit & Run 6.18.23 Multi use Building in West Allis WI

This morning had a pile of starts and stops. We met up somewhat early and decided to head down to th…

Wabash Alloys in SE WI – roaming through an abandoned alloy recycler! 6.10 & 18.23

Wabash Alloys in SE WI – roaming through an abandoned alloy recycler! 6.10 & 18.23

After a few months of sparse exploration my partner and I were itching to get out again. My Partner,…

EVS 5.29.23 Exploring an abandoned VW car dealership in WI

EVS 5.29.23 Exploring an abandoned VW car dealership in WI

This explore take us to a Volkswagen dealership and repair shop that has been closed for a bit now. …

WB electronic recycling center- 3.19.23 —- This is the 2nd part post, to the very 1st UE post on here, ENJOY! We did…

WB electronic recycling center- 3.19.23 —- This is the 2nd part post, to the very 1st UE post on here, ENJOY! We did…

11 months… almost to the day it took to complete this post!(6 month or so to complete the expl…

St. Aloysius Church, nunnery, and school(W/ permission) 11.20.22

St. Aloysius Church, nunnery, and school(W/ permission) 11.20.22

When you find yourself at a city council meeting, always keep your ears open for opportunities. As a…

WWII Monument that shouldn’t exist…. 6.19.22

WWII Monument that shouldn’t exist…. 6.19.22

When I first heard about this monument in southeastern Wisconsin, I didn’t believe it was real…

St Coletta’s 5.7.22 (we have lapped ourselves) now with my partner in UE.

St Coletta’s 5.7.22 (we have lapped ourselves) now with my partner in UE.

Holy shizzle-snacks! It looks like I have done almost no exploring in the last year, and for that I …

St. Coletta 5.1.22

St. Coletta 5.1.22

Clearly I have a problem with starting most of my posts with “So”. I am going to try and…

Northridge Mall 12.31.21

Northridge Mall 12.31.21

So after one visit to the mall of my youth, I had to return with my partner in photos! We had plans …

Northridge Mall 12.18.21

Northridge Mall 12.18.21

So on a random Friday morning in Dec 2021 I saw parts of an industrial building being ripped down. S…

Motor Castings Part 4 .. 12.12.21

Motor Castings Part 4 .. 12.12.21

So this would be our last time to Motor Casting for months, but clearly a change had started! We wer…

Motor Casting part 3  12.5.21

Motor Casting part 3 12.5.21

So when I was first toying with the idea of starting urban exploration again, I posted a few “…

Motor Castings Part 2  12.4.21

Motor Castings Part 2 12.4.21

So a few days went by and I couldn’t stop thinking about going back to MC. It was like a new l…

Motor Castings   11.28.21 The explore that restarted it all!

Motor Castings 11.28.21 The explore that restarted it all!

So this place really did ignite a fire in me for Urban Exploration as an adult. I had gone as a chil…

So after a day of getting shafted on our other explores….. 9.24.21

So after a day of getting shafted on our other explores….. 9.24.21

We were both a bit deflated…. So we part ways… Yet, we end up back together and go for a…

Not every explore can be a win… 9.24.21

Not every explore can be a win… 9.24.21

So after I failed to locate this property on my initial recon attempt, My partner in exploration tot…

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