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Mr. P. Explores
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History teacher, explorer, photographer, podcaster and lover of all things odd, weird and strange! #urbex

http://instagram.com/mr.p_explores

"Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road" Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ooL4cp95ckRZjnbq6q7Z7?si=b1688e18af12439
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The beautiful decay of a massive and abandoned Art Deco theater in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Arguably criminal that we let these architectural masterpieces rot, rather than maintain and treasure them...

#abandoned #urbex #theater #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #Philadelphia #exploration
November 15, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Inside a massive and relatively clean abandoned storage warehouse in the middle of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. So many interesting lines, rusting machinery and peeling lead paint in this beautiful old structure.

#abandoned #EastCoastKin #Urbex #Philadelphia #photography #industrial
November 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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"There was a light, blue as a welder's torch; it used to shine over the fields, and all the wise men, strong men were drawn for miles; followed a star to Bethlehem Steel..."
- Grant Lee Buffalo - Bethlehem Steel (1997).

Bethlehem Steel HQ; Bethlehem, PA.

#abandoned #urbex #industrial #steel
November 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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A rusting Titan of industry; the massive, tangled and rust-red complex of the long silent and defunct Bethlehem Steel on the Lehigh River in Pennsylvania. This complex helped us win a world war; now it lies silent.

#abandoned #urbex #Scape #industrial #EastCoastKin #Bethlehem #Pennsylvania #rust
October 31, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Not my photo, but this was it shortly after closure.
October 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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The shattered, scrapped and torched auditorium of an abandoned Detroit, Michigan high school. Once grand and ornate, this massive shell was once adorned with red velvet seats and intricate stone decor. Now, as of 2017, it is as you see it...

#abandoned #urbex #EastCoastKin #Detroit #Exploration
October 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Four lost structure, all demolished; Hess & Clark (Ashland, OH); Hara Arena (Dayton, OH), John S. Gray Library (Detroit, MI), Coco Key Waterpark (Rockford, IL); all taken on my old Nikon D300 back in 2020.

#abandoned #urbex #EastCoastKin #Scape #urbanexploration #forgotten
October 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Bizarre tableaus found within the House of Dots near Slab City, California; an outsider art installation deep in the desert outside of Niland, California. I can't think of anywhere more quirky than this place, tucked away in one of the hottest places in the country.

#outsiderart #urbex #California
October 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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The glorious Art Deco masterpiece that is Detroit, Michigan's Fisher Building. The Fisher Body Company built this gem in 1928, designed by Albert Kahn. It stands today as a reminder of when the automobile was king in the Motor City.

#architecture #urbex #EastCoastKin #Detroit #photography
October 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Scenes from "The Beach," once a thriving resort area on Salton Sea, now an outsider art installation in Bombay Beach, California. This art now stands where once the Sea inundated; such has been the evaporation over the years...

#abandoned #urbex #SaltonSea #EastCoastKin #outsiderart #California
October 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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The collapsed shell of the Church of the Transfiguration in Buffalo, New York. This beautiful old church is on its last legs after its roof collapsed several winters ago; though stabilization is being attempted, there is no guarantee that it will survive...

#abandoned #urbex #EastCoastKin #Buffalo
October 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Scenes from within a decades-defunct Kirkbride mental institution in Buffalo, New York. While this section of the hospital is semi-abandoned and mostly in its original state, the central part of it has been renovated as a beautiful hotel.

#abandoned #urbex #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #photography
October 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Inside the magnificent infrastructure of the Colonel Ward Pumping Station in Buffalo, New York. One of the main pumping stations that brings water to the municipal grid, this Beaux-Arts masterpiece was opened in 1915 and is still in partial operation today.

#architecture #urbex #EastCoastKin
October 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Inside the slowly moldering ruins of an abandoned church somewhere on the backstreets of Buffalo, New York. This place had amazing stained glass and that warm vibe that one gets from light filtering through such windows...

#abandoned #urbex #decay #church #EastCoastKin #photography #MrPExplores
October 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Inside a decades long abandoned industrial bakery in Cleveland, Ohio, that was later used as a storage warehouse for decades more before its final closing. The history here was thick; every corner told a story...

#abandoned #urbex #EastCoastKin #photography #industrial #Cleveland
October 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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The dim and musty innards of a long abandoned shopping plaza in the middle of Cleveland, Ohio. So many people probably had hopes and dreams sunk into this place, only for it to be closed down for good...

#abandoned #urbex #EastCoastKin #Cleveland #exploration
September 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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The vast and cavernous spaces of the defunct (but now repurposed) and geometrically glorious Brooklyn Army Terminal (Building B) in Brooklyn, New York City. The light, the shadow and the lines of this place always make this a special place to document.

#Architecture #Urbex #EastCoastKin #industrial
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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The remains of a once-beautiful high school auditorium in Highland Park, Michigan, that was put to the torch by arsonists several springs ago. Truly, this place was a masterpiece that was annihilated by vandals of the worst kind...

#abandoned #urbex #EastCoastKin #exploration #photography #Detroit
September 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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The Michigan Avenue lift-bridge over the Buffalo River in Buffalo, New York. Lines and geometry and rust on a warm and gloomy June day this past summer...

#architecture #urbex #EastCoastKin #bridge #photography #Buffalo #BuffaloNY #NewYork
September 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Abandonment photography can and is, in my mind, a commentary on how we treat history in our country. Especially when it comes to schools. The ruins of old schools equates to our nation's neglect and abandonment of critical thinking, forward movement and a future worth having...

#abandoned #urbex
September 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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The old and defunct bathhouse at Jacumba Hot Springs, California, a mere few hundred feet from the Mexican border. Once, this was a popular spot to relax in the hot springs that "healed." Later, a fire took out the roof and upstairs rooms, leaving it as you see here.

#abandoned #urbex #photography
September 20, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Scenes from the long defunct Moundsville Penitentiary in Moundsville, West Virginia. Opened in 1865 and closed in 1995, it is now maintained as a historical landmark.

#abandoned #urbex #prison #EastCoastKin #photography #Moundsville #WestVirginia
September 17, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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She was.
September 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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The Black River "Ghost Ship" near Lorain, Ohio. A former Canadian ferry left here years ago by its former owner, now sinking into the mud on the Black River. For years, no one has been able to establish ownership, and so here she's sat...

#abandoned #urbex #EastCoastKin #photography #shipwreck
September 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Scenes from inside the decades-defunct Moundsville Penitentiary in Moundsville, West Virginia. Closed in the 1990's, this massive old prison once held some extremely dangerous and desperate men.

#urbex #exploration #EastCoastKin #scape #photography #WestVirginia #Moundsville #prison
September 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM