If you need tips and tricks on being an urban explorer, just ask Florian Seidel.
In “Abandoned Kansai”, the German expat based in Osaka, Japan, writes about and posts photographs from his numerous urban adventures.
You can find photographs taken from destitute and forgotten destinations like abandoned theme parks, creepy sex museums, and run-down hospitals on Seidel’s website.
For Seidel, he strictly follows the unwritten rule “take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints”. His work often evokes a spectrum of emotions from the viewer—while his black and white photographs of the Tokushima Countryside Clinic induces goosebumps, the ones taken at the Wakayama Beach Hotel instantly transports you back to the 1970s.
Using Google maps, blogs and local news as his guide, Seidel often does his research and background checks before heading to these deserted places.
Check out some of his photographs below, and be prepared to be amazed—or creeped out.
Nara Dreamland
Wakayama Beach Hotel
Japanese Sex Museum
Tokushima Countryside Clinic
Amano Clinic
Chernobyl/ Pripyat
[via Yahoo! News, images from Florian Seidel]