Toxic Mill - Thread - Urban Exploration Resource

(These photos are from 2016/07/17)

This is the farthest distance I've ever gone to explore an abandoned building. We saw a few photos of the place on the Internet before we set out, and knew there was some neat junk inside, but we were not prepared for how much junk. Easily the most stuff I've ever seen in one place before. Sportscar was huge and Hydro was cool, but Toxic here won't be beaten in the garbage dump competition.

The photos are bit sloppier because of high heat and humidity that day, and I developed a headache early on from the foul air in the lower levels.

01: Further Scouting

02: Screen
This is the first of many, many televisions in this place.

03: Everything's Coming Down

04: To the Floor

05: Shopping Cart

06: A Lawn Tractor

07: IBM Personal System/2
There's no way this little guy still works. Still, we'd like to have a portable PSU on hand to test things like this.

08: Cluttered Back Room of Sorts

09: Double Pinball
Seeing the ruined arcade machines made my heart ache.

10: Brownie

11: An Umbrella
Your explanation is as good as mine.

12: Nature's Window

13: Black and Neon
This was part of a laser-tag arena, just beyond the arcade. Reluctantly used the flash here because there was no way my little maglite was going light-paint this area.

14: Extended
Once again I forgot to focus the camera.

15: Irrational Application

16: No Future

17: Purple Screens

18: The Motherload

19: Salvation

20: Going Down
These stairs took us further down into the building, onto the first floor (we started out on the second). This is where things started getting bad.

21: Hoarding

22: Lightsource

23: Things and Stuff
It's like the entire building vomited everything down to this floor, to loosely quote my friend. Due to the sheer lack of floorspace and a chunk of missing floor right in front of the door, this whole area was unexplorable. Maybe we could have made the leap... and maybe we couldn't.

24: Consignment Overview
Rusted pieces of metal hung all over, there is virtually no exposed floor to walk on, and everything is slippery. This room was the site of our first-ever urbex accident - my friend slipped and splashed foot-first in a cooler filled with some of the most disgusting water I've ever seen.

25: Olympia
This Olympia De Luxe typewriter had the misfortune of sitting on the floor of this awful place. Much like the Super Sterling upon its discovery, every component of this machine was seized.

26: Olympia (2)
That didn't stop me from hauling it onto a table though.

27: Olympia (3)
One can see the condensation on the machine. Everything in here was wet. The condensation alone was probably enough to cause the damage that it did to this poor thing. I'm sure it was nearly immaculate when it was first brought here. Alas... I left it up on the table. I like typewriters, if you haven't noticed.

28: Zenith Laptop (Opened)

29: Oh God What

30: More Consignments (3)
Going through this door got us 20 feet down the hall from where we first entered the consignment store - 20 minutes ago.

31: Leafy Cavern
Some point after exiting the consignment store, we ended up in an arcade/minigolf area. It was substantially darker here than this photo makes it seem, with a humidity so off the charts that there was a fine mist over in the right side of the room. It was an eerie place to be.

32: Pseudo Silhouette

33: More Minigolf

34: The Store

35: A Sodden Place

36: Entrance and Exit
What do you mean I'm not the first to take this photo?

37: The Happiest Illuminati Triangle
I wanna rule the world from the shadows, onii-chan!

38: More Junk

39: Watertight

40: Moon Door

41: Neon Wires

42: Moldy Pillow

43: Final Room (Right)
Having seen everywhere we felt capable of seeing and being hungry and weary, we decided to call it a day.

Epilogue

Back in the Motherload room, my friend found a bootleg DVD titled "This Ain't Star Trek" and "Drunk Girls Gone Wild at Party".

We brought it home to see if we could read it.

We could.