Urban Exploring

Alright, as you might have seen, a little conversation about "Urban Exploring" sparked in The Show Yourself Thread.
What we want you to do, is to post pictures and tell us a story where you are exploring some creepy, old, abandoned, and crazy places in your own or any given city. Mad props will be given to those who rep Autemo in their pics/stories!
To start it off, here's some from my urban exploration the other night.

This is where I went:
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It's by the harbour in the city of Aalborg.

At first we walked around a bit on the ground, went in some of the smaller buildings, and had fun. But when we finally found the stairs leading up, things got serious (not really). Well, we walked for 10 minutes on those Goddamn stairs (I was utterly exhausted by the time we reached the top). Anywho, we went in on 2-3 storeys on the way to the top to explore them a bit, but not a lot happened there. Well, except for me being scared the shit out of by a psychopathic pigeon. We got to the top (number 1 on the picture), and it was really really really awesome, even though it didn't feel completely safe (floor/roof seemed in a rather shitty condition tbh). We were a bit hesitating to proceed to the top (number 2 on the picture) because we would have to climb the last part by ladder. I wanted to go the last bit, cos we had already made it so far, but the others said it was too dangerous, so I didn't - initially. After snapping some pics and a single video (you can barely hear anything on it, cos it was so windy) I decided to go up there - obviously it was awesome, but in the middle of it, there was a gaping 3x3 meter hole, leading directly into the building, so I just stayed close to the edge of the roof, and glued to the railing haha :P
That's about it, except for the enormously funny part, where I turn off the flashlight on the middle of the stairs on our way down, so we were surrounded by complete darkness (literally couldn't see ANYTHING) and I kept walking down while my 2 mates were freaking out haha :D
Well, here's some pics ovvit:
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Sorry for some of the pics being blurry, but as said, it was pretty windy, cold, and terrifying, so I had some troubles holding the camera still :D
I visited this place ages ago, called St. Peters Seminary, it was used back in the 1960's to train priests and is tucked away in the woods of a small town village just 5 minutes away from me.
The building was described by the international architecture conservation organisation DOCOMOMO as a modern "building of world significance". This is what it looked like back when new:

Outside the building.
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That is now collapsed.

Lower half.
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Now:
This is looking from the other side of the pillars to the outside.
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This is the main hall, now:
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Such a shame when you look at some of the pictures when it was built, really was an amazing place and i found it scary.
My mate was on the side of the place and something dropped right behind me and i almost poo'd myself haha. The place is covered in graffiti and burt wood from fires and such. You have to walk around the massive complex which took 30 minutes in tall grass and mud, slide under a huge fence. Really want to go back with my new camera and check it out again.
I like you.
i like your foto guys very beatiful place's
Awesome Pictures guys..
Mad Respect. :-d

Sniper-X
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