Finding the Locations of Popular Liminal Spaces (ft. kylie & Adrian Ghastly)

Liminal-Space images are very popular online, but we often face the reality of not knowing where a picture is taken. Many pictures are mysterious, and many backrooms photos have an interesting story behind them. Thankfully for those who are curious about the real life locations of liminal space photos, I go over some of the most popular ones in this video!

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Intro 0:00
Holiday Inn 2:42
Asep Stroberi Kadungora 3:48
Lantern of Madison 4:35
Borders Bookstore 5:22
At-Play Amusement 6:25
Lansing Mall 8:30
Sanatorium Ingul 9:25
Hamamatsu Station 11:02
Rainbow Funhouse 11:44
Hillside Intermediate School 14:09
Pool Rooms 16:10
Kiski Area High School 17:05
Krusty Krab in Ramallah 17:47
IKEA in Innaloo, Australia 19:15
Google Data Center 19:44
Ramona Ave. House 20:03
Gabrielle Traversat 20:54
Hotel Pool in India 21:41
Outro (please stay) 22:30

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[JadenSalads]

When I hit 100K subscribers one day, I'll try and visit as many of these places as possible. NOW that's a good video idea.

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[FMassi]

This guy literally doxxed the backrooms what a legend

[rinkooo]

you have no idea how long i’ve been waiting for someone to make a longer than five minute video of “finding liminal spaces”, and with actual locations and not just vague answers

[its_not_izzy]

I love the concept of liminal spaces as an architect. Those images are an exemple of what should we avoid in our projects, so we don't give the uncany valley feeling on people

[fetidcreeper]

The reason nursing homes sometimes design hallways like a neighborhood is mostly for the folks with alzheimers, dementia, sundowner. It helps them be settled, living in something that looks like old neighborhoods they may have grown up in.

[hollyr-commons]

i’ve actually stayed at the level 188 hotel place on my vacation to europe last year, it was funny bc me and my friend saw it and were like “haha it looks like the backrooms” and took a bunch of pictures unknowing it was actually a backrooms location

[evaasclouds]

I’d like to point out that the indoor neighborhood is almost certainly designed for people with dementia. A highly clinical setting can be extremely confusing and stressful for those suffering from dementia, so placing them in a more familiar and comforting setting can really help increase their quality of life

[renditoputra]

I'm from Indonesia and I've been visit that Strawberry restaurant. It's a nice restaurant, good food too but fun fact the menu there has absolutely nothing to do with Strawberries, it is just for decoration and the food are mainly savory.

[SnowWhite-ovof]

The Rainbow Funhouse images are crazy! The contrast of beautiful gothic architecture and garish rainbow plastic is so interesting to me

[ohhaithere]

Fun fact about the seniors home, a lot of places aren’t like that, but they’ve found that for older people with Alzheimer’s or dimentia, having your apartment or room or whatever look like a distinct home helps them ground themselves and find their own room, rather than just having it look like a normal apartment or hotel where every door looks the same

[jellyfrogfish]

I think the playgrounds, libraries, arcades etc are like childhood landmarks, and in a sense they DO represent a transitional period or place between. It’s THE transitional period! Your adolescence. The place between being a baby and being an adult. I think that’s why we feel nostalgic and yet a little uneasy when we see those pictures

[xyq]

i remember going to watch the fnaf movie when it first came out. i went to the toilets about half way through the film and to my surprise as soon as i left the movie hall i was struck with an insane feeling that i could only link with the backrooms. its very eerie being in a place thats normally packed with people when its not. the only sign of "life" was a faint sound of popcorn popping. i get chills just thinking about it

[axelrose]

4:41 this actually freaked me out so much. i've never seen this image before in my whole life but ive genuinely seen this place in a dream. not in the typical angsty "ive seen this place before" or wtvr you used to see in weirdcore edits, but ive genuinely seen that place in a dream. like, a couple months ago. it was an incredibly vivid dream and i remember basically the whole thing, people i met, conversations i had, but specifically that place. i'm getting nervous 😭😭😭

[lostboycmd]

I think an important detail is that they feel like they shouldn't be empty. Either because they're normally a place you associate with having a lot of people (scholastic book fair, empty auditorium, etc) or because they're missing detail and feel like they've been "smoothed out" (the backrooms, the pool hallway). It makes our imaginations start to imagine what else /could/ be in those spaces

[fluffcake]

To me, liminal spaces aren’t as scary as other people make them out to be. They’re calming and like a gateway to the good old days of being an innocent kid. I wish I could walk around them and thanks to this video, I guess I could now.

[what_could_be]

The origin of the first backrooms photo was just found this month. Years of searching of this unsolved mystery have come to an end. The photo is of an old play called Rhonners. It is an Oshkosh Wisconsin. A new company moved into the building and was tearing everything down. (This is like 2000 or late 1990s) For whatever reason someone took that iconic photo of the "backrooms". Somehow it made it on to 4chan and the rest is history.

[pmconspiracy]

For me, the liminal aesthetic often embraces the beauty of in-between moments that evoke a feeling of nostalgia :)

[doughnaught_]

Hey guys, I'm the person who took the photo at 6:28 ! (You cited a Reddit repost of my photo that I originally posted with the title, "The party's been over for years" on the LiminalSpace subreddit)

Anyway, about the photo:
I admire the amount of digging you've done to find the location of it - as I had no idea about the newer name "At-Play Amusement." With that being said, this photo was taken in 2014 while the place was still called "Fun Zone, " although the place was barely operational anymore by that point. At the time, I assumed this was the original Music Express ride after getting ripped apart. Funny to find out now that it was actually a new ride being prepared for the rebranding of the place!

[legendary]

6:48 as someone who’s been to a fun zone near closing when everyone is leaving it really does look like a liminal space

[Mr.Koolaidlover]

Here back after the og backrooms image was found