Urban exploration leads
Urbex accounts are posting fresh tours this week — Bros of Decay guided viewers through a French medieval 'man cave' and an abandoned US prison, feeding the appetite for ruin photography. (x.com) Obsidian Urbex is showcasing Shropshire sites: an Art Deco pool, a Cold War bunker and a car graveyard — great scouting leads for wide‑angle, textured shots. (x.com)
Bros of Decay posted a YouTube feature titled "Exploring America's Most Untouched Abandoned Prison!" about three weeks ago, and the video's description dates the facility to around the 1930s with a reported designed capacity of 324 inmates. (youtube.com)) The Bros of Decay channel lists roughly 680–684K subscribers on YouTube and advertises a new documentary-style upload schedule of about one video per week on its official site. (youtube.com)) Obsidian Urbex published an "Exclusive Video — Adventures in Shropshire & The Midlands" on Patreon within the past day highlighting a pre-dawn Art Deco swimming pool, a Cold War–era nuclear monitoring outpost, and an overgrown car graveyard. (patreon.com)) Obsidian Urbex’s website hosts a location gallery and weekly blog posts with prints and photobooks for sale, and the site’s FAQ explicitly states the photographer does not publish precise addresses or coordinates for explored sites. (obsidianurbexphotography.com)) The creator’s social footprint includes a Mastodon profile showing about 6.7K followers and an active Patreon with tiered memberships; third‑party Patreon tracking listed roughly 51 patrons and $47 monthly in reported support as of late 2025. (mstdn.social)) Both operations monetize exploration content: Bros of Decay offers an online merch store and frequent YouTube releases, while Obsidian sells prints, zines and Patreon access to exclusive videos and behind‑the‑scenes material. (brosofdecay.com))
