What kinds of abandoned places does Wraiths explore?

Wraiths (wraiths.ca) documents urban exploration across British Columbia, and its focus is broad rather than limited to one category of site. According to the site, the places covered include shut-down asylums and hospitals, closed prisons, secret tunnels, derelict ferries, abandoned mines, breweries, and factories — plus one-off landmarks such as the McBarge. If you want to know whether a specific kind of abandoned location falls within their range, the answer is likely yes as long as it looked interesting enough to investigate.

Site types Wraiths covers

The site lists its exploration subjects directly, which makes it easy to check against your own interests:

• Institutional buildings — shut-down asylums and hospitals
• Correctional facilities — closed-down prisons
• Underground and hidden infrastructure — secret tunnels
• Marine and industrial sites — derelict ferries, abandoned mines, breweries, factories
• Notable one-offs — the McBarge, described as a singular landmark

That spread suggests the selection criterion is curiosity value rather than a fixed category. As the site puts it, "If it looked interesting, we probably checked it out."

Geographic scope

The coverage is centered on British Columbia. Wraiths describes itself as "home of urban exploration in BC," and the locations named — including the McBarge, a leftover from Vancouver's Expo era — fit that regional focus. If you are looking for explorations outside BC, this is probably not the right archive.

What to expect from the documentation

The site is candid about the state of its material. It is on its fifth distinct version, two decades after the first went live, and is being rebuilt as time permits. Some exploration write-ups are live, others are still coming, and photos are being added to all of them.

A practical caveat: most photos are old, taken with early digital cameras that were "1mp at best." The site itself notes that shooting in dark places with weak cameras while avoiding security does not produce artistic masterpieces. So treat the value here as the record of places visited and the write-ups, not high-resolution imagery.

How to use the site

• Start with the exploration write-ups that are already live if you want completed accounts.
• Expect missing or low-resolution images on many entries, and check back later for additions.
• Use the location types above as a checklist: if your interest is mines, tunnels, hospitals, prisons, or industrial buildings, the archive likely has something relevant.