Well, in the Wyandotte County Lake Park (the one near the Woodlands) there is the ruins of what seems to be an old abandoned ice skating rink (mostly assumed since there are ice skates all over the place) which looks like it caught fire and everyone just sort of up and left it there exactly how it was. There are melted chairs scattered about, there are even skates laying around. I'm not entirely sure how recent the incident was, the area is extremely overgrown and seems to be forgotten for the most part. I have no idea what the history of the place is, though. I'd love to find out.
It's pretty easily accessible and as far as I can tell it's perfectly okay to be up there. There's a riding/walking trail right past it, and we've seen people up there before whilst exploring and they don't seem to pay any attention to us. There aren't any warning/danger/keep out signs or anything
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I found it through a friend, and god only knows how SHE found it. She just told us she had something to show us one day and wandered off onto this forgotten little trail into the thick of the woods and we ended up facing this creepy crumbling old building littered with trash and grafitti. Poor thing.
The whole park is pretty neat to explore actually. If you wander off past the Spillway up on the trail to the right, you find more ruins of unknown buildings/houses/etc and even in broad daylight it gives me the creeps. There's hardly anyone out there. Some of the trails actually just meander off into the woods and just forget they were trails at all after a while.
There's plenty of other cool little spots around Wyandotte County, none that I've really explored much myself (there's lots of abandoned churches and cemetaries). Only looked at from a safe, legal distance (after the cops caught us once trying to find some limestone caverns XP). Now I live out in Overland Park so I have a bit of a drive to go explore the old neighboorhood, but I have a feeling there's a lot of untapped mystery out there, just due to the age of the place.
Downtown Kansas City is also awesome if you go down there on a Sunday. I went down there for a photoshoot back in highschool and it was completely empty of any signs of life. It's an awesome place for photography.
Is anyone interested in pictures from the skating rink? let me know, I'd be happy to post them. I have a ton.