Fun with tracking urbex YouTubers!

"One giant leap

BACKWARDS

for mankind"

-- Buzz Armstrong

 

 

1. Shiey - Mission Through Deep Under-City Passage Tunnels

Shiey and Anton (BadCat) entered the underground tunnels from a manhole cover next to a park bench on Lesi Ukrainky Blvd, near Hospitalna Street.

Google Maps - Google maps shows images from 2015 with a homeless person sleeping on the bench next to the manhole. Since these Google images were taken, the fencing has been removed.

 

2. Shiey - Mission To Secret Russian Space Research Station -

 

Google Maps - The Ionospheric Research Station (Instytut Ionosfery Nan Ta Mon Ukrayiny) is located on a road called Taranivsʹke Shose, that runs West from the city of Zmiiv, Ukraine.

 

 

3. Shiey - Train Surfing Journey To The Black Sea | Part 3

 

Google Maps - Walking along Baseina Street.

 

Google Maps - Ibis gun shop to buy pepper spray, propane, and food.

 

Google Maps - The overpass above the train tracks where he hopped his first train along Kharskivs'ke Highway.

 

Google Maps - The rail yard with storage lockers.

 

Google image from 2015

 

The train crossed the Petrivsʹkyy Zaliznychnyy Mist bridge.

Passing under this bridge as the train exits Kyiv.

 

Shiey showing his location on Google Maps.

 

The clump of trees where Shiey spent the night outside Zhmerynka, Ukraine....

Google Maps shows this sign. Shiey walking back to the train station in Zhmerynka, Ukraine.

 

Google Maps - Shiey finally arrived at Sunset Beach in Odessa, looking back at the Mini Hotel Mirage (Мини отель Мираж) and the Palm Hotel.

 

At the end of Shiey's video "ILLEGAL FREEDOM: Journey Across Bosnia & Herzegovina" he visists "Forest Park Velika and Mala Petka" in Dubrovnik, Croatia.

 

The park has a dead end bike path that leads South to a nice view of the Adriatic Sea.

 

Google maps actually has a user's 360 view of this exact location...

 

GIFGAS - The Great Escape - Poison, Shiey, and a third train surfer escaped train station security in the city of Brenner, Italy. They climbed into the hills from the Forst Pizzaria patio. Google Maps. Later, they reached an Italian/Austrian border gate.

 

Ally Law and friends climbed to the top of the 54-floor / 615-foot high Lumpini condominium building in Bangkok Thailand, before being escorted down by security. They eventually made a run for it and escaped security to avoid a "fine". You can find this building at Sukhumvit 24 Alley. Google Maps

 

Russian roulette has taken on a new form. Instead of a revolver, it's the 'blue beams' (Google Maps) found about 30 floors up in the sky in the Shchukino District of Moscow at Aviatsionnaya Street and Novoshchukinskaya Street. It is here that Oleg Cricket leaps up onto the safety wall, then jumps down onto the outside beam. Overshoot it and you die.

 

Oleg Cricket's harrowing skyscrapper slide was atop the JA Oasis Beach Tower in Dubai on Al Mamsha Street (AKA 'The Walk') near Al Yolat Street. Google Maps

 

Oleg Cricket jumping between roof rafters of the "252 Church Condos" located at 8 Mercer Street in Toronto, Ontario. Google Maps. Despite appearing to be the full 30 or so stories from death, the rafters that he jumped on are "only" about 3 or 4 stories above safety. The last rafter is right on the edge. Overshoot that one and you're falling all the way to the street.

 

Oleg Cricket walking on decorative louver of the 55-floor, 684-foot Marina Heights building in Dubai. Google Maps.

 

Across the way on the next block, Oleg Cricket did a rock climbing-style stunt along the Marina Pinnacle building at Al Sharta Street. Google Maps.

 

Oleg Cricket - Crazy Morning Workout ON THE EDGE - YouTube - This insanity, including BMX biking, took place on top of the 34-story Ramada Hong Kong Harbour View Hotel, at 239 Queens Road West in Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong - Google Maps

 

 

Oleg Cricket - On the 32-floor 443 foot high Times Tower at 393 Jaffe Road in Wan Chai, Hong Kong - Google Maps

 

 

Oleg Cricket - On the 39-story Royal Terrace building at 933 King's Rd, in the Quarry Bay area of Hong Kong Island - Google Maps

 

 

 

Usamalama - Varso Tower, Warsaw Poland. Google Maps

 

 

Shiey - Escaping Power Plant AFTER Security Forces Rush In - Google Maps

 

Shiey - Journey Across Island of Sardinia - T Hotel Cagliari - Google Maps

 

Mission To Giant Sunken Machines in Flooded Valley - Shiey, BadCat, and Urban Odysee traveled about 300 km South from Kyiv on Highway-08 to Oleksandriya (population 93,357). They likely stayed at the Hotel "U Fedora" (some of their rooms have the exact same bunk bed funiture and chairs as seen in Urban Odysee's video of the trip). Nightly rate for three? About $20! The next morning they left Oleksandriya on the M22 road. Google Maps

Later they reached the small village of Likarivka (population 101) and followed train tracks to the excavators.

The excavators are about 3 1/2 miles North of the city of Oleksandriya. The big excavator, made by Azovmash (headquartered in Mariupol, Ukraine -- currently invaded by Russia), is about 750 feet long. Google Maps

 

From the video "Yes officer, I'm going to jump..." -- Shiey and Anton harrowing climb to other side of building from about 24 floor up - Located at 1 Yordanska Street - Google Maps -

 

Also from the from the "Yes officer, I'm going to jump..." video -- Shiey hangs over the side of a building - Google Maps -

 

Shiey - Journey Inside Abandoned City | Part 3 - Shiey walks past his twin brother on a street called Merķeļa Iela in Riga, Latvia. Google Maps

 

Shiey - Mission To Huge Abandoned Vehicle Storage Facility - Abandoned buses stored in spaceship-like building called Autobus Park №7 - Pokynutyy Avtobusnyy Park in Kyiv Ukraine -- Google Maps

 

Shiey - Mission Across Tatra Mountain Valley Peaks - Begins walking along K Vodopádom, Vysoké Tatry, Prešov Region. Google Maps

Coming off the trail Google Maps before stumbling upon abandoned buildings about 100 yards away.

 

Bad Cat Anton's tower climb South East of Lviv, Ukraine, North of Nadiina Street. This video may only be available to his Patreon subscribers. Google Maps This tower is not far from a paintball center. Perhaps people from this center took note of the tower and word got around to Anton that it would be a good tower to climb.

 

 

The point at which Shiey makes his bus surfing escape from a security company in pursuit (become a Shiey Patreon subscriber to see this video). Google Maps

 

Nuisance: "Security chased me for 20 minutes, until I bamboozled him" --

He was playing soccer inside a private facilty in Malta. before running from a security guard and hiding here.

 

Christ the King statue

 

South on Great Siege Road

 

Turn right past Antonio's Barber Shop sign on Triq M. Caruana Street

 

Evidently they walked North on John Lopez Street thenn left on Triq San Publiju

 

The wall that Nuisance jumped down was at the Grandmaster Antonio Manoel de Vilhena Monument, found here on Google Maps.

 

 

Here is the alley that the Little Nuisance ran down on on Triq M. Caruana Street

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