Welcome to Dark Playgrounds. This is a site about Urban Exploration, Archeology, and History. It's about going places to discover the unknown, and play in the lost. Our goal is to provide a written history for the building that we explore. Such places lost to time as the R. L. Hearn Power Station, Flintkote, Newark State School, Holley H.S, Muskoka Regional Center, and the Edgar A.O.C. Please keep checking back for updated content. Feel free to browse the site checking out everything we have to offer. This site is associated with the 'zine Darkplaygrounds, our first issue is slated for release in January of 2009. News Oct 6th, 2008 - Updates, the Papers section has now a paper on the German Roman Catholic Orphan Home, there are a few links up on the links page, and the about section has some FAQs up. Oct 3rd, 2008 - Site Launch. Content will be limited as the sections are built. Blog is up, hosted by Blogspot. Site Map About - a little about the site, and the hobby in general Gallery - a small taste of some of the buildings we've visited Papers - mostly histories of the various buildings that we have conducted research on Blog - links to our blog, outlining recent adventures and other topics (external) Links - our friends in the exploration world