I go where most people never get the chance to go. Then I come back and show you what’s there.

I’m Proj3ct M4yh3m — a Yorkshire-based urban explorer and photographer with a habit of turning up in places I probably shouldn’t be. Derelict asylums. Decommissioned hospitals. Abandoned military installations. Crumbling châteaux in the French countryside. If a building has been left behind, I want to know what’s inside it.

I’ve explored across the UK and throughout Europe — from psychiatric hospitals on the west coast of Ireland to the Reactor 3 control room at Chernobyl. Every location gets the same treatment: a proper write-up of its history, the story of the explore, and as many photographs as it takes to do the place justice.

I have a particular obsession with hospitals and asylums. There’s something about those buildings — the institutional scale, the way time stops mid-task, a wheelchair left at the end of a corridor, notes still in the filing cabinets — that no other type of location quite matches. I also have what I’ll admit is a thing for bay windows.

“A Covert Urban Ninja Traveller, taking my camera to places where most people never get the chance to visit.”

What you’ll find here

Every post is a full site report — the history of the building, the condition it’s in now, and a full photo set. I categorise by location type (hospitals, industrial, military, religious, residential and more) so you can find exactly what you’re looking for. There’s also a growing archive of galleries, videos, and the occasional article or interview when something interesting lands.

On locations and ethics

I don’t name locations that are still standing and accessible — not to be mysterious, but because the moment an address goes online, the clocks start ticking. Take nothing, leave nothing, tell no one: that’s the code. If you see something you recognise in these pages, please keep it to yourself in the comments.

Find me elsewhere

I’m on Facebook, X, Instagram and YouTube as @Proj3ctM4yh3m / @ProjectMayhem. For editorial or licensing enquiries, get in touch via the site.

New here? Start with Site Reports and filter by what you’re into — or go straight to Hospitals & Asylums if you want to see the best of it.