A selection of shots of the eerie and neglected Western Cemetery (Westerbegraafplaats) in Ghent, Belgium. A beautiful and moody place filled with centuries-old tombs and gravestones.

A small and very dirty abandoned theatre somewhere in Belgium.

I visited this place about 2 years ago. We were on our way to Italy, but we needed a place to spend the first night of our trip. We settled on this huge hospital. We arrived here in the dead of night, with no clue whatsoever of how to get inside or if there even really was a way in. We walked around the building for several hour, checking all windows and doors, but none would give way to an entrance. Our hopes were really starting to get really low, would we already fail to find a place to sleep one night into our trip? Would the three of us be forced to sleep in a fully packed car?

We decided to do one last round of checking, maybe, just maybe, we missed something. Just as we were giving up, one last window caught our attention. It was hard to get there, but it seemed like our last chance. We were lucky, It was open. Maybe lucky wasn't the right word, as getting there seemed near impossible. Good thing impossible is a word not to be found in our dictionaries. We got in. We picked ourselves a room and got a nice few hours sleep. All was good.

After getting up, we realised this hospital was even bigger than it seemed the night before. Some impressions of this huge abandoned place:

A large school, on the verge of reconversion. An endless maze of corridors, rooms and halls. Beautiful decay everywhere.

Het Amerikaans Theater (or the American Theater) was originally built in 1958 for the Brussels World Fair. After the fair most of the buildings where demolished, but the American pavilion was one of the few that was left standing. Right after expo 58 it was put to use by the VRT (then BRT, the Flemish radio- and televisioncompany), as a television studio. That was until this month, as they moved out of the buildings early june. I had the chance to go and fotograph the premises on the last days there.