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Urban Exploration

Urban Exploration is for places and routes that clearly match this theme. This category includes labels such as Rooftop spots, Abandoned factories & ghost towns, Hidden passages, cellars & hidden rooms, and Smoke spots. A spot belongs here when the theme is visible in the activity, location or facility itself, not just because it happens to be nearby.

Main category

Urban Exploration

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What belongs in Urban Exploration?

Urban exploration needs clear boundaries. Describe only legal and safe places, with attention to access, collapse risk and respect for property.

Urban Exploration covers spots where this theme is central. The place should be recognizable, visitable and useful for someone actively looking for this kind of location.

Use the 5 subcategories to describe the place more precisely. Examples include Rooftop spots, Abandoned factories & ghost towns, Hidden passages, cellars & hidden rooms, and Smoke spots.

Criteria for this category

Choose Urban Exploration when the activity, function or setting of the spot directly fits this theme. The description and photo should make it clear why the place belongs here.

If several labels could apply, choose the subcategory that most concretely describes what someone can do or see at the location.

What does not belong here?

A place does not automatically belong in Urban Exploration because it is beautiful, quiet or popular. The main feature must genuinely match this category.

Use another category when the place is mainly about food, views, history, sport, nature or public facilities and {name} is only a side detail.

Keep exploring

Subcategories that make clearer what kind of place is meant inside Urban Exploration.

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