I’m Proj3ct M4yh3m \u2014 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 ch\u00e2teaux in the French countryside. If a building has been left behind, I want to know what’s inside it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve explored across the UK and throughout Europe \u2014 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have a particular obsession with hospitals and asylums. There’s something about those buildings \u2014 the institutional scale, the way time stops mid-task, a wheelchair left at the end of a corridor, notes still in the filing cabinets \u2014 that no other type of location quite matches. I also have what I’ll admit is a thing for bay windows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“A Covert Urban Ninja Traveller, taking my camera to places where most people never get the chance to visit.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every post is a full site report<\/a> \u2014 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I don’t name locations that are still standing and accessible \u2014 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Find me elsewhere<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m on Facebook<\/a>, X<\/a>, Instagram<\/a> and YouTube<\/a> as\u00a0@Proj3ctM4yh3m\u00a0\/\u00a0@ProjectMayhem. For editorial or licensing enquiries, get in touch via the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n New here? Start with\u00a0Site Reports<\/a>\u00a0and filter by what you’re into \u2014 or go straight to\u00a0Hospitals & Asylums<\/a>\u00a0if you want to see the best of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 \u2014 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 ch\u00e2teaux in the French countryside….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16438","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PaxsWc-4h8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proj3ctm4yh3m.com\/urbex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proj3ctm4yh3m.com\/urbex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proj3ctm4yh3m.com\/urbex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proj3ctm4yh3m.com\/urbex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proj3ctm4yh3m.com\/urbex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.proj3ctm4yh3m.com\/urbex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16440,"href":"https:\/\/www.proj3ctm4yh3m.com\/urbex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16438\/revisions\/16440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proj3ctm4yh3m.com\/urbex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}On locations and ethics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n