Freed eXplore: ✨ A night above Bordeaux Exploring my hometown under the cover of night, we climbed to this incredible vantage point overlooking the Garonne River and the iconic Place de la Bourse. The reflections of city lights on the water and wharf create a
Freed eXplore: 🚇 Metrocosmos Saint-Martin In the shadows of bustling stations, Saint-Martin stands like a time capsule, frozen beneath the streets of Paris. Closed to the public since 1939, this ghost station, covered in graffiti and forgotten stories, h
Freed eXplore: 🏭 Blade Runner This old factory, immortalized in Blade Runner 2049, embodies everything I love: places filled with history, an atmosphere balanced between industrial past and imagined future, and a raw aesthetic. This Stalin-era power plant, bu
Freed eXplore: ⛪ Sacred Vessel Standing on the rooftop of this church in the heart of the city, felt like a lone sailor on a vessel in the middle of an endless ocean. The city stretched around us, a quiet sea of lights under the vast night sky. The towering stone
Freed eXplore: ️Styx Venturing into the heart of these forgotten limestone quarries felt like descending into another world. The dark and flooded tunnels brought to mind the ancient myth of the Styx. Step by step, we moved deeper into this silent realm, where an abando
Freed eXplore: ⚰️ Tales from the Crypt We explored this disused cemetery, frozen in time, where nature is slowly reclaiming its ground. As we moved among the graves, some tilted, others broken, with wrought iron now nothing more than rust among the green ivy, we discov
Freed eXplore: 🌃 Dominating the Big Apple. After infiltrating and climbing 50 floors by stairs, I felt a double sense of joy when I finally managed to unlock access to the top. The rush of fresh air on my sweaty face made me feel alive, and the breathtaking v
Freed eXplore: ♉ Sacred Bull We found a sacred bull, hidden in the heart of this underground quarry. This monumental sculpture almost seems to watch over this timeless place. Maybe it's Apis, a revered deity from Egypt, a symbol of strength and fertility, often
Freed eXplore: ⛪ Sanatorio Divo Carolo Dicatum This impressive complex, vast in size, was a true pleasure to explore. Though well-known and in a very degraded state (even worse nowadays), its architecture, the scale of its chapel, and the beautiful blooming garde
Freed eXplore: 🌌 Junction It wasn't an easy hike, but what a joy to be at the junction of glaciers, peaks, and stars! It had to be earned: 17 km, 1650 meters of ascent, 20 kg on my back, but when I see the result, my doubts about the usefulness of carrying an
Freed eXplore: 🚇 Molitor This phantom station in the Paris Metro is one of the most iconic. Upon arriving at its central platform, we are immediately enveloped by a nostalgic atmosphere. Its large vaulted ceiling, covered with the famous ceramic white til
Freed eXplore: ⛪ Blue Church What a gem! While exploring this beautiful but decaying structure, I began wondering about its history, especially with the presence of modern elements from a bar, now abandoned as well. The church was founded in the early 17th centu
Freed eXplore: 🌉 One of the first things that impressed me in New York, besides the size of the buildings, was the massive scale of the bridges that span the East River and the Hudson to connect to Manhattan. True giants of stone and metal, with decks th
Freed eXplore: ⛰️ Underground Military airbase The entrance to this mountainside base was already impressive, but once inside, the vastness of the tunnels left us speechless. This former airbase, built during the Cold War, was one of the largest and most expensive u
Freed eXplore: 🏭 Separation Mine TITO In what was once the largest mining district in Croatia stands this former separation mine. We enter this building, with its thousand broken windows, to discover large concrete spaces bathed in the warm light of the rising
Freed eXplore: 🌃 Walking above NYC At this hour, everything was calm, silent. I slipped through the construction site like a cat, with utmost discretion, and climbed the 57 floors to the top one by one. At this height, the view was fabulous, but that crane aw
Freed eXplore: Stone Throne While descending, this room had impressed and inspired me, but it wasn't the goal, so I didn't stop to avoid slowing down the group. On the way back, I stopped there and took the time to capture the photo I had in mind. After setting up the
Freed eXplore: ⛪ The Oratory While exploring this grand Oratory college, I did not expect to discover such a beautiful Abbey. After a meticulous search for open access, I found a way to take this photo, leaving the camera on the balcony and managing, with some di
Freed eXplore: 🚇 Bluelight Station. The tunnels of New York have always fascinated me. Whether old or modern, it's the lighting that catches my eye, especially the blue lights. There are two types of blue lights in the system. Those I love are in tunnels
Freed eXplore: 🏭 Sleeping Blue Giant Power plants are always a real pleasure to explore, from their control rooms worthy of science fiction movies to the vastness of their turbines and the complexity of their pipework; it's like entering the body of a sleeping g
Freed eXplore: 🌃 SuperVilain HQ. After infiltrating and climbing 50 floors by stairs, I felt a double joy when I managed to open access to the top. The rush of fresh air on my sweaty face made me feel alive, and above all, the incredible view of New York Cit
Freed eXplore: 🔦 Underground Cathedral That small underground quarry, with huge volumes, like a cathedral, is also revealing delightful surprises: These high arches, at regular intervals, support the ceiling in these large spaces. A ventilation system carri
Freed eXplore: Death Star This kind of abandoned place, so impressive, a vestige of a bygone industrial past, today is a pleasure for the eyes and for the lens. A treat for playing with perspectives and symmetries, while imagining yourself in a science fiction settin
Freed eXplore: 🌃 Gotham City Once I reached the top, I grabbed this metal bar, I hoisted myself up to the level of this symbolic flag, and I finally had the view I so desired... Sparks filled my eyes as I admired the scene : natural light fading to make way
Freed eXplore: 🚇 Hide ! The atmosphere was simply perfect, with the beauty of classic New York station architecture, the gritty ambiance we expect from stations here, and, above all, finding ourselves where a scene from "The Joker" was filmed. Could I hav
Freed eXplore: 🏭 Tribute to Heavy Metal The Belgian mining and metallurgical industry, a relic of another era, has left us magnificent vestiges to explore. With an atmosphere worthy of the best post-apoc films/series/games, we have spent countless hours and day
Freed eXplore: 🌃 Welcome to Gotham City That night, the weather didn't look promising, much like many other nights during our stay, but the urge to climb was irresistible. I wanted to watch the Manhattan skyline; the building had caught my eye the day before
Freed eXplore: 🌳 This hole was created by bombings during WW2, so powerful that they destroyed the ceiling of the underground quarry, leaving a gaping hole. The power of nature has always amazed me; after events like war, we can see a symbol here, nature
Freed eXplore: 📚 The Hidden Library - Coming to this well-known place in French urbex was a risk; years of incessant passage had surely disfigured it, just as much as the current renovation work. As I entered the compound that day, confidently heading towards the
Freed eXplore: 💧 On one side, a mirror of water, imperturbable, reflecting even the past traces of cuts in the sky; on the other, these rails frozen forever by water, like a Medusa, gradually transforming them into a stone ladder. We stand there, in a silence o