Welcome to Contemporary Ruins!

NOTE: If you're reading this, you've found us before our official launch. Consider this a sneak preview. If you'd like to help us seed the wiki, by all means, feel free to contribute!

Contemporary Ruins was launched in 2008 as a means of creating a central repository – a directory, if you will – of abandoned places, forgotten towns, and other discarded elements of our modern society. You know what we mean: that abandoned hirise apartment building that you drive past every day, that neglected subway station that blinks by in the dark, that curious-looking concrete foundation barely visible in the distance … we're surrounded by remnants of our modern age, but few people stop to notice.

So much post-industrial history has been completely ignored because it has either been deemed “too modern” or “inconsequential”. But there are a growing number of us who find an abandoned 1960s-era apartment hirise or a forgotten railroad tunnel absolutely fascinating. And for the past decade or so, a growing number of urban exploration sites have shown that we are neither alone nor few.

Contemporary Ruins isn't here to duplicate the already-existing networks of quality urbex sites. Rather, Contemporary Ruins exists to try and highlight these sites by providing an organized directory of existing content. As a fan of abandoned places myself, Contemporary Ruins represents my way of giving something back to the community that has provided years of fascination. Hope you enjoy!