Devin
Check out my YouTube channel for full videos documenting America's historic buildings, before they're gone forever ! https://www.youtube.com/@DarkExploration
05/31/2026
Inside of an Abandoned Pro-Sports Arena that used to hold 15,000 fans, now eternally silent. The venue that had Julius Erving dunking in the ABA, to Elvis Presley live on stage, The new YouTube video exploring this building in now uploaded, check out the video for a tour inside the building before it's demolished by the city !
From dodging scrappers sneaking around us, to finding dissection specimens as well as thousands of iPads,Computers, and historic architecture from 1924, this week's video is action packed and now on the channel to be viewed. Link in bio for the full video
05/03/2026
What you see is a 1970s Era Trailer park left abandoned after 130 days of record-breaking flooding along the Mississippi River, causing longterm residents to evacuate and never return to the place they call home.
7 years after the flood, the neighborhood of multiple vacant streets still sits as a reminder of waters unforgiveable force.
New video is up documenting this location
I thought nobody lived here anymore..
Found a creepy secret room while exploring the Abandoned John Gotti Mansion, hidden behind multiple layers of security, we were able to see what was inside.
If you want to see the full video of exploring the Gotti family Mansion, check my YouTube channel, or click the link in my bio 🙌
Roadtripping across Appalachia, finding ghost towns, DVD rental stores and abandoned civil war sites !
The full video documenting these 4 ghost towns, and many more stores, is now on the YouTube channel
02/22/2026
02/12/2026
Nothing is as charming as a former outdoor mall with a roof put on top. During the 1970s, many outdoor shopping centers were ignored with the increased construction of indoor shopping malls at the time. So during this indoor shopping renaissance, manuy outdoor malls decided to put a roof on their existing shopping centers to attract more customers.
This is the history of this rural North Carolina mall. The Wilson Mall was operating from 1970-2013 until the times caught up to this aged structure.
The newest video documenting the life of this mall is on YouTube. Link in bio
02/07/2026
A 1970s Era Mall that was built on top of a cemetary. Before it was retail space, it was farmland, and the family of that farm still has never left their property.
Originally an outdoor mall with 16 tenants, in the 1970s a roof was put on the shopping center, and the stores quadrupled to 90 tenants. Fast forward to 2026, and no one is here.
today's YouTube video I take you inside as I tour the retro building one last time before it's demolished. Link in bio for the full tour and history
01/31/2026
This weekends post is dedicated to pictures I took over a decade ago in 2015. This was the Plainview Sanitarium, a former tuberculosis hospital and built in the 1930s with Georgian style architecture. It was also one of the best abandoned hospitals in the Long Island area, of the many around.
I had the opportunity to visit over 15 times all whilst learning how to take pictures for the first time with a digital camera. Enjoy these amateur unedited shots of a historic hospital that is no longer around.
All the buildings were demolished in 2016.
This place was one of the first reasons I fell in love with urban exploration. Before social media and the popularity of 'urbex' today, it felt scary and mysterious to explore, not seeing what's inside from IG posts, but just going inside with no expectations. The feeling I got from these buildings is a feeling i still chase to this day.
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