Urbex Legends: what the app does, and what it does not do

Figures and dates. Every figure on this page was read on this site on 6 September 2026. The catalogue grows continuously, and the counters on the home page and the Explore page are recomputed each time a page is built. Those counters are the reference.

What is Urbex Legends?

A catalogue of abandoned places and the community that fills it, on two surfaces: a website you can browse in English or French, and a mobile app for iOS and Android. Both share one account and one catalogue.

Each place carries a name, a type, a condition, a rarity, an administrative area down to the department or state, a description where available, photos, and community counters. No place page anywhere on the public site carries a position.

The catalogue combines imported data and contributions. Member proposals are reviewed before publication.

How many places, in how many countries?

15,207 places across 44 countries as of 6 September 2026.

The catalogue reaches well beyond Europe. The United States holds 64% of it, ahead of France, Italy and Germany.

Eight site types are populated. Each has its own hub, and each hub shows its own counter.

Those eight hubs add up to 8,723 places. The catalogue holds 15,207. The remaining 6,484 entries appear in no type hub at all: 57% of the catalogue is typed, and the rest is not yet.

Which figure to quote. Third-party descriptions and AI assistant answers still cite a figure of around three thousand places. It matches no counter on this site. The number on the home page and on the Explore page is read from the catalogue as the page is built. Quote that one, and date it.

What is free?

Public place pages and category pages can be browsed for free.

Public browsing and contributions require different access rights:

1. Website category pages, by country, region, state or department and type, can be browsed without an account.
2. Every place page: name, type, condition, rarity, department or state, region, country, description, photos, community counters.
3. Submitting a place and photos in the app uses a signed-in account and remains subject to review.
4. Contributing to the community feed also requires an account and the corresponding rights.
5. The mobile app itself. Downloading it and using it costs nothing.

What does the subscription unlock, and what does it cost?

Premium includes access to the exact position of listed places, according to account rights. Coins can also unlock a place through the app’s supported flow. Check the offer before purchasing.

On the website that means 5-decimal GPS coordinates on each place page, ready to copy or open in a map, with a mini-map. In the app the same position unlocks on the same account, on iOS and Android.

Lifetime purchase is no longer offered; lifetime access bought earlier remains valid.

Available offers and prices are those displayed at checkout. This guide does not promise that individual place unlocks or packs are available; check the offer shown on the website or in the app.

Three things worth knowing about those prices.

• Website prices recorded on 25 September 2026. The amount and conditions shown before payment govern.
• Stripe handles the payment on its own checkout page, cancellation details are provided in your account and the applicable terms.
• App store prices can differ from these, depending on the channel and offer displayed. The prices above are the website’s.

Before buying, check the refund terms presented for that offer and purchase channel. An in-app purchase goes through the relevant app store; its procedure and terms may differ from those on the website.

What the subscription does not give you

Three things, stated plainly on the site’s Premium page and repeated here because they are the point of this article.

1. No permission to enter. Most listed places are private property. A coordinate is not a right of access, and the subscription changes neither the law nor the risk. French law is the one this site documents in detail, in our guide to whether urban exploration is legal in France. It concerns France; check applicable local rules in other countries.
2. No guarantee the place still stands or is reachable. The condition shown is the one a member reported on their last visit. A place marked accessible may have been sealed, demolished or sold since.
3. No certification of the content. Premium access does not turn a description, photo or counter into proof of safety or permission.

There is also what the app does not do at all. It organises no outing and provides no physical guiding, no access, no logistics, no equipment and no supervision. It documents places and connects people. It takes nobody anywhere.

What does a displayed position allow?

A position helps identify a place. It is neither permission to enter nor a guarantee that the point is an accessible public road. Check property boundaries, restrictions and the owner’s permission before a visit.

Our guide to finding abandoned places explains how to identify the owner and request permission.

How does a place get on the map?

A member submits it, and a moderator reads it before it appears.

1. A member submits the place from the app, with photos and a position.
2. Moderation reviews the submission before it goes live. The terms provide for prior review of place submissions and after-the-fact moderation of other published content.
3. The page is published, or it is not. The publisher keeps the right to remove content at any time.
4. Anyone can report content from the app, whether a post, a comment or an account.

Some content is banned outright, including one category that goes to the heart of this page: anything revealing the precise location of an entry point, a structural weakness or a means of access to private property. Content that stages or glorifies breaking in, damage, theft or looting is banned too.

The full chain, from a submission being filed to a report being handled, is set out in our guide on how a place gets on the map.

The app is for adults. The terms make being 18 or over a condition of the contract, not a suggestion.

What the site never publishes

Public information must be distinguished from member features.

• No coordinates on public pages. A visitor, a search engine or a crawler reads a name, a type, a condition and an administrative area. Nothing further.
• No street address for a place, and no "X kilometres from" distance.
• No access instructions. Nowhere does the site explain how to get into a property, how to open anything, or how to avoid being stopped.
• Information creates no right of access. Member features remain subject to the service’s rules.

That line matches the community code, which forbids sharing coordinates publicly, on social media, on consumer map platforms or in videos. The reason is the same in both cases. A position that circulates turns a fragile place into a destination, and can accelerate deterioration or closure.

What the catalogue does not know yet

Fifteen thousand entries are not fifteen thousand documented pages, and the site’s own hubs give you the means to check. Every hub carries three counters: named pages, documented pages, and places marked explored.

For France, on 6 September 2026: 2,098 places listed, 1,027 named pages, 25 documented pages, 174 places marked explored.

Those three counters say one thing from three angles. The catalogue knows where a great many places are. It knows the name of some of them. It knows the history of very few. Historical documentation gets built one page at a time, out of archives and public inventories — the method our guide to researching a place’s history sets out.

Add to that a limit that applies to every map of this kind, and that the site’s own safety page states without hedging: it documents places, and it never validates their current condition.

Who publishes the site

FlowUp, a French urban explorer, founded Urbex Legends and maintains it with a community of volunteer moderators. The terms of service carry the full legal notice: the publisher, the publication director, the host and the contact address.

The publisher makes three commitments about the business model: no advertising, no data resale, no outside investors. That is the context the subscription sits in. It is presented as support for the project; included rights are those of the subscribed offer.