Photography and historical interest/documentation are heavily featured in the hobby and it sometimes involves trespassing onto private property. Oldtown Hostel Otter is one of the best places to stay in Zurich for solo and budget travellers. The unspoken rule of urban exploring is "take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints". Experienced explorers are very cautious inside active utility tunnels since pipes can spew boiling hot water or steam from leaky valves or pressure relief blowoffs. Top Places to Visit in Zurich, Switzerland: See Tripadvisor's 54,814 traveller reviews and photos of Zurich attractions. Other risks include freely roaming guard dogs and hostile squatters. Would be grateful for your "secret" suggestions on which places to go to! I don't know any "secret" spots - and if, I wouldn't tell on reddit. The Cincinnati subway is also abandoned, but was never completed. Draining has a specialized set of guidelines, the foremost of which is "When it rains, no drains! Urban explorers may use dust masks and respirators to mitigate this danger. Built in 1895, the beautifully decorated concert hall has a capacity of 1,455 guests. The Tonhalle Zurich is one of the most popular tourist places in Zurich for those who love music. Discover (and save!) SKAM France (season 6) featured urban exploration, This page was last edited on 25 September 2020, at 11:33. An exception to this is the abandoned subway of Rochester, New York, the only American city with an abandoned subway system that was once operational. Groups devoted to the task have arisen, such as the Cave Clan in Australia. Beautiful places in Zurich. While it is true that a Zurich getaway will likely cost more than many other places, a trip really doesn’t need to break the back. They don't have to be that secret. A person fell from an abandoned factory from a height of the fourth floor and it is thought they fell out of a window. When does it rain? I'm not entirely happy with how this photo turned out but I was just passing through town when I took it so I couldn't go back and re-shoot. I know the Chinese Garden, Uetliberg, Botanical Gardens and the … I was at the sternwarte when I was young, I should invite my (nonexisting) girlfriend to go there. If you go for romantic places, check out the sternwarte, I don't think its a real secret anymore. Steam tunnels have generally been secured more heavily in recent years, due to their frequent use for carrying communications network backbone cables, increased safety and liability concerns, and perceived risk of use in terrorist activities. As a result, this type of exploration is rarely publicized. Abandoned buildings in Switzerland (and Italy). Some of my favourites are the area around the Landiwiese: https://goo.gl/maps/fMWgunEVgWF2, and Werdinsel: https://goo.gl/maps/kRTbc14WAkt. The thrill comes from "discovery and a few nice pictures". A piece of a ledge broke off and a person who was standing on it on the second floor of an abandoned building fell head first to the ground receiving injuries including an open head injury and suspected fracture of the limbs. Another aspect of urban exploration is the practice of exploring active or in use buildings, which includes gaining access to secured or "member-only" areas, mechanical rooms, roofs, elevator rooms, abandoned floors, and other normally unseen parts of working buildings. There have been a number of deaths in storm water drains, but these are usually during floods, and the victims are normally not urban explorers. In Japan, abandoned infrastructure is known as haikyo (廃墟) (literally "ruins"), and the term is synonymous with the practice of urban exploration. I'm very interested in photographing Abandoned buildings but need help finding them, or better yet, a person that can show them to me. This practice was once called "vadding" at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but students there now call it roof and tunnel hacking. It's brilliant. This series roamed around the world, showing little-known underground structures in remote locales, as well as right under the feet of densely packed city-dwellers. Maybe there is something like the "Zehendermätteli" (Berne) in Zurich? Jun 10, 2013 - Zurich, Switzerland these train only streets and many one-way streets drove us crazy trying to get to our hotel to check in. travelling. I am an inhabitant of Zurich and I would like to get to know to the city a lot better because I feel like I don't know it enough. 3 years ago. [11], In Australia, lawyers for the Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales shut down the Sydney Cave Clan's website after they raised concerns that the portal could "risk human safety and threaten the security of its infrastructure". The fictional film After... (2006), a hallucinatory thriller set in Moscow's underground subways, features urban explorers caught up in extreme situations. Talks and exhibits on urban exploration have appeared at the fifth and sixth Hackers on Planet Earth Conference, complementing numerous newspaper articles and interviews. Oct 1, 2016 - Explore Curious Places's board "Haunting", followed by 357 people on Pinterest. Thanks for that garden! A person fell from the third floor of an abandoned building and received injuries including fractures of the ribs. Most steam tunnels have large intake fans to bring in fresh air and push the hot air out the back, and these may start without warning.