During my tours I had met a fellow urban explorer, who knew a lot of abandoned and potentially abandoned places around the country. Their knowledge helped me to form the basis of my summer tour of 2021 along with my own list, which I had built up the previous summer and by reading news. TheirContinue reading “You Poor Thing”
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To The Unknown Part IV
As the people left for biggest cities, not only did schools and apartments in this former town center take a hit. Businesses did too. The road running ahead from left to right is the main street of the former town center, now a village. And if I’m not entirely mistaken, that yellow beauty hiding behindContinue reading “To The Unknown Part IV”
Paint For Sale
Moving on to the next building on the other side of the overgrown yard. It had had another wing right there, but that had been demolished between 2012 and 2015. The building has been abandoned for a long time. Why they chose to tear down only one wing of it remains a mystery. At firstContinue reading “Paint For Sale”
A Better Research Would Help
Another day, another adventure. This time I had two locations on my list. The first one was this one, which I had found again thanks to other urban exploration sites. It was a former building, where there had been a bar, a private health care company and an architect’s office. Since abandonment it served asContinue reading “A Better Research Would Help”
Mining Village Grocery Store
This already seems like a too familiar story, but let’s tell it all over again. In 1948 a copper mine was founded in a very small village of a very small municipality. In addition to a mine, the company built an enrichment plant, two very spectacular blocks of flats and other infrastructure in a location,Continue reading “Mining Village Grocery Store”
Bad At Predicting The Future
Welcome to another small village, where the local grocery store has closed for good. There it is and it’s clearly abandoned. I did a walkaround, but there was no way in. The store belonged to one of the largest chains in Finland. All the stores in the chain have names of their own. This oneContinue reading “Bad At Predicting The Future”
Despair St.
Technically these buildings are not abandoned. They all are located on one street in the village of Myllykoski near Kouvola. They have been built between the 1930’s and the 1960’s, and have originally had stores downstairs and apartments upstairs. There are still people living upstairs, but when the local pulp and paper mill was closedContinue reading “Despair St.”