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From urbex, draining, building jumping and rooftopping to planking, parkour and free running, here you will find articles, images and videos of the breathtaking structural infiltrations and architectural explorations from around the world.

Extreme Street View: Google Employee Maps Deserted Island

Street View has mapped much more than roads in its, but sending a lone urban explorer through the haunting multistory ruins of a remote island may be one of their riskiest geographic ventures ...

Strung Along: Twine Guides Visitors Through Abandonments

Acting as a minimalist and silent tour guide, lengths of black yarn were carefully suspended to direct guests along a route through the broken walls of a deserted series of tightly-packed ...

Explore Everything: Epic Book Shows How to Hack Cities

Combining harrowing first-hand experiences, vivid images and historical context, urban explorer and photographer Bradly L. Garrett takes his readers on a stunning in-depth tour through the hidden ...

Rocket Man: Going POV With a Real Parkour Expert [Videos]

Parkour isn't quite the sensation it used to be, but there are plenty of urban athletes all over the world still exploring cities by free running, jumping, flipping and climbing. One of England's ...

Skyscraper Slums: Insider Tour of World’s Tallest Tent City

Housing over 2,500 squatters on 28 of its 45 floors, the Tower of David is a half-finished structure in Caracas, Venezuela, populated with displaced people. Like the now-vanished Kowloon Walled ...

Leisure Dives: Planking Meets Parkour & Midair Photography

Parkour and free-running are fine for athletic types, while planking and the lying-down game are great for lazies, but suspended somewhere in between we find the leisure dive. Blending the ...

Urban Fabric: Stretched, Stitched & Suspended Mobile Home

Imagine rooms that expanded and compressed depending on occupancy, then stretch your mind to conceptualize a whole home that works the same way - it folds virtually flat then unfolds as you move ...

Parkour for Lazies: The Bizarre British Lying Down Game

It's happening all around the world: people are taking pictures of their friends awkwardly lying face-down in all sorts of unlikely places. On top of statues, in the middle of roads, in front of ...

Pomparkour: New Urban Free Running Sport with Ladders

Anyone who's already familiar with parkour – the jaw-dropping urban sport that involves astonishing acrobatics including gravity-defying jumps – probably stared in disbelief at a video ...

Hack This: Eerie Abandoned Roof Trips & Tunnel Hacking

Roof and tunnel hacking began at college campuses, but urban adventurers soon picked up their cameras and the explorers' flag. Urban exploration includes abandoned places high above a city and far ...

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