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MrPExplores

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2018

I am a history teacher, explorer and administrator of Mr. P. Explores, a Facebook community which features both videos and photo shoot explorations of old ruins, roadside oddities and abandoned locations. Swing by and check out all of the zany adventures we've had so far!
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Remnants of the streetcar station.

Washington, D.C.

The Dupont Underground

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

The main house and adjacent garden before the restoration.

Glen Cove, New York

Welwyn Preserve

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

Facing the old station. The small sign tells tale of the counterfeit scheme.

Arcadia, Oklahoma

Old Route 66 Filling Station

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

Madame Sherri's Castle

Chesterfield, New Hampshire

Madame Sherri's Castle

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

Central State Hospital

Milledgeville, Georgia

Central State Hospital

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

Abandoned Fort Ord building.

Salinas, California

Fort Ord

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

An abandoned café in Glenrio.

San Jon, New Mexico

Glenrio Ghost Town

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

Foundry Branch Trolley Trestle Ruins

Washington, D.C.

Foundry Branch Trolley Trestle Ruins

A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.

The presence of the past.

Bluff, Utah

17 Room Ruin

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

These ships were used as houseboats during the Great Depression.

Baltimore, Maryland

Curtis Creek Ship Graveyard

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

The old Adam Scheidt Brewing Company in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Old Adam Scheidt Plant

This forgotten building was one of the few Philadelphia-area breweries to survive Prohibition.

Light From A Cave-In

Washington, D.C.

Ruins of the McMillan Sand Filtration Site at Reservoir Park

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

The barge seen during sunset.

Castroville, California

Sauce Bros Barge

An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.

The Odd Fellows Home.

Liberty, Missouri

Odd Fellows Home

The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Van Slyke Castle Ruins

Oakland, New Jersey

Van Slyke Castle Ruins

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

A wheelchair in the abandoned building

Glen Gardner, New Jersey

Abandoned Hagedorn Psychiatric Hospital

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

One of the many floors of spinning machines

Lonaconing, Maryland

Klotz Throwing Company

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

Old Car City in White, Georgia.

White, Georgia

Old Car City

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

Old Japanese Jail

Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands

Old Japanese Jail

This jail once controlled by the Japanese military now sits abandoned on a remote Pacific island.

Ghost Town of Oakton South Dakota

Murdo, South Dakota

Okaton Ghost Town

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

The parking lot and entrance.

Portland, Oregon

Kelly Butte Civil Defense Center

Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.

It sits behind chain link and barbed wire

Goleta, California

Barnsdall-Rio Grande Gas Station

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.

Shade Swamp Sanctuary

Farmington, Connecticut

Shade Swamp Sanctuary

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.

Park entrance today

Catskill, New York

Catskill Game Farm

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

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