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Urbex Map Categories Explained: Discover What Each Symbol Means

Learn about our urbex map categories and what each symbol on the map stands for. Whether you're a curious explorer or a seasoned urban adventurer, our system helps you navigate through abandoned castles, hospitals, bunkers, tunnels, and more — all neatly organized by type. In this post, we'll guide you...

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What Makes a Good Lost Place Submission?

Every lost place submitted to UrbeXplorer is manually reviewed before it appears on the map. To make sure your submission gets accepted - and helps fellow urban explorers - here's what a good one includes.

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Join our Volunteer Moderator Team

We’re on a mission to make our map better and easier to use and we need your help! As we roll out powerful new moderation tools and process a surge of submissions, we’re looking for passionate volunteers to join our moderator community. Read on to discover how you can make...

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BETA

New: Multi-Language Support!

We’ve started rolling out multilingual support across UrbeXplorer!
Please note that location titles remain in their original language. The Community section and some other sections will remain in English for now.

This feature is still in beta, and we currently support German and Italian only. If you notice any translation issues, want to help us improve, or speak a language we don’t yet offer, feel free to reach out through the contact form.

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We've updated our Terms & Conditions

We’ve made a few changes to the Terms and Conditions for Urbexplorer. Please take a moment to review them — you’ll need to accept the current version to keep using your account.

You must be logged in to delete a place!

To delete a place, please log in to your account.
If you’re new here, you’ll be able to unlock the map by submitting a location or supporting the project after creating an account.

If you’re having trouble, feel free to contact us.

You must be logged in to edit a place!

To edit a place, please log in to your account.
If you’re new here, you’ll be able to unlock the map by submitting a location or supporting the project after creating an account.

If you’re having trouble, feel free to contact us.