The Unfinished & Abandoned CEMENTLAND Amusement Park

The Cementland amusement park was the brainchild of sculptor Bob Cassilly, and was created on the former site of an abandoned 54-acre cement factory. Cassilly used repurposed machinery and materials to create an amusement park-like art exhibit that people could explore and enjoy. Unfortunately Cassilly was killed on the Cementland property during construction and the park was never finished. Join us as we show you what could have been of this defuncat and incomplete park.
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I explore the various abandoned and decrepit buildings and locations that pepper the world. These places are remnants of the past, and I enjoy documenting them for all to see before they succumb to man or Mother Nature. Join me as I enter the belly of the beast and show you what these abandoned buildings have to offer on the inside. Happy Hunting and I wish everyone safe explorations :)
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[@tinkmarz1]

"How would you turn this into an amusement park...and do it safely?"...you need to see the City Museum in St. Louis, take a good look around. Many of the elements there can be seen taking shape at Cementland. Cemetland was to be much the same thing on a much grander scale. (As for the City Museum and by the City Museum, structural engineers inspect it on a regular basis to ensure safety. Mr. Cassilly was very concerned with safety as well as art, architectural and industrial reuse, and the museum continues in that tradition.)

[@burningsandsexploration3711]

It would have been interesting to see the park's architectural plans to see how he intended to pull this off. Would be interesting for sure. Huge place. So much to look at. Thanks for this. Awesome video.

[@lordexplores]

Look up the St. Louis City Museum. It is an art museum created by Bob Cassilly and will give you a look into his art style!

[@GamerGuats]

There are none. He built stuff in his head. He did not put it on paper/plans.

[@richdiscoveries]

I've never heard of this place before, it's absolutely beautiful. This one may make it on my list of future locations. Thanks for taking us along my friends, stay safe out there!!

[@lordexplores]

Thank you, Rich.

[@StringerMedia]

That’s such a shame that this was abandoned. You never see cement factories anymore that are re used. Something like this is too cool to be wasted

[@lordexplores]

I agree

[@feelix2732]

This place had so much potential. If anyone is curious about the artist look him up. He built and designed the City Park in Saint Louis and that place is insane.

[@joannhempen8210]

Great videos. I’ve watched a couple. Love your video and editing style. Really neat places you have discovered! Loved & Subbed❤️

[@AdventureswithBeck]

Wow knowing that history just adds so much more to this place... Amazing video!!

[@lordexplores]

Thanks, Beck!

[@ReikiGemWellness]

Wow, such an amazing location! Although parts of this video did trigger my fear of heights.... Lots of sirens during the earlier part of the video, I wonder what was going on. Thanks so much for exploring and sharing this place. The mystery of Cassily's death makes this place even more intriguing!

[@lordexplores]

Thanks for watching! Yeah, the heights freak me out too! Just gotta watch my step... :P

[@rowdyrazl42]

It's off of Riverview in St Louis and there's a lot going on in the area. Sirens are super common here. I went a couple Sundays ago and heard at least 20 gun shots during my exploring

[@Ruhroh420]

I climbed up top of one of the smaller buildings, and let me tell you, it was scary lmao. But once we got up top, the bats were swooping in and out of the chutes up top, into windows, flying around our heads and it was worth it.

[@OffbeatDiscoveries]

"How would you turn this into an amusement park...and do it safely?" I was thinking the exact same! Cringe walking across the squeaky metal crosswalk

[@lavenderfields26]

This place looks so calm and eerie, I absolutely love it

[@lordexplores]

It was indeed. Thanks for watching!

[@joshhoyle191]

Great vid guys. Keep it up and stay safe lads.

[@lordexplores]

Thanks, Josh!

[@completelydisinterested9298]

That’s the craziest place I’ve ever seen.

[@grandmacarla4258]

I just subscribed because of this video. It was really cool and beautiful in it's own way. Look forward for more content.

[@lordexplores]

I appreciate it

[@natekiefer2911]

I was there 3 years ago today to be exact! I had a snapchat memory pop up and watched my videos I took and then came here to youtube to search for some more footage of this beautiful place. Unfortunately it was at night when me and some friends went, but I would love to come back to this place and explore some more possibly in the day time. Also I like the video you took! really shows a lot of this place in a better pov then when I was here.

[@MidwestFlesh]

Very cool!!! Almost cool as "Cool Cole"! Lol..great explore brother 👀

[@FarmHunter]

Is that Buffalo Bill at 12:20? And I think the "Ghirardelli" square is the Anhauser-Busch symbol. I could be wrong...?

[@montanalimper160]

Was there yesterday. They’re currently doing construction, I think they’re tearing it down. So people who want to go now is the time

[@Ben-yj9wz]

I love your vids but I always miss them because of the premiere feature, I’m always here too early

[@FarmHunter]

Great intro too! Loved the backstory. Mysterious!

[@lordexplores]

Thanks, Farm Hunter :D

[@faveauxmaite9462]

Wonderful place. Thanks. Bad that the park was not achieved.

[@onlypains9364]

Keep them uploads coming

[@jettloaf]

Another cool explore & location! Some of the climbing you guys did with all the holes around you would freak me out! 😅

[@lordexplores]

Thanks for watching!

[@darrynskinner4121]

I have been here many times and it is really amazing

[@michellethroop1274]

Loved this video!!! Fantastic Explore, and I LOVE that I get to "come along" with you guys!!!! Thank You!! It looks a LOT like a place called "Marlboro" (Marlborough) , an old abandoned Cement Foundry, in Baldwin, MI. I explored that quite a few times with the ex. Where IS This place???

[@saucyjo5951]

st. louis missouri

[@decorationdude]

The guy who was working on this also built the city museum in St. Louis and that place is pretty crazy. I can’t imagine how long it took him to build. I really wish that this place could have opened aswell

[@polaris911]

very cool. Your camera takes excellent video btw

[@lordexplores]

Thank you, I shoot with a Canon 80D with a 10-18mm wide angle lens. Great rig imo

[@soraisfinallyhere1305]

Just went here today was pretty sweet!

[@SueGirling68]

Hi, a pretty cool place, I cannot believe you went across that red cable bridge, very very sketchy lol. A shame that the guy died/got killed because I bet when that would have been finished it would have made for a great day out. Thanks for the explore, stay safe. x

[@lordexplores]

Thanks for the kind comment. Look up the 'St. Louis City Museum' if you'd like to see what it may have looked like when completed. It's a museum created by Bob Cassilly himself. Really cool place!

[@SueGirling68]

@@lordexplores Oh wow thanks I will check that out.

[@johnb.7979]

I just recently read something about this place, and how it's still under tight security, but based on your actions and what you show, it looks pretty wide open. Would have been interesting to see completed. Cool video.

[@jacobbowman3010]

I've been there no security What so ever

[@majinbrat]

@@jacobbowman3010 I went there in 2015 and my group definitely got caught by some private security there, they had the most jacked Pitt I have ever seen, idk what it’s like now but we passed by at least three other groups of people there, busy day lol

[@jacobbowman3010]

@@majinbrat when i went there it was mid 2020 and we only passed by 1 group of people and saw no security

[@andrewseitz1132]

@@jacobbowman3010 prolly me

[@lx4253]

This is sick

[@lordexplores]

Thanks, boss.

[@chaseriver9765]

Another fascinating achievement (by you)! A lot of mystery still surrounds this place -- not only with the (alleged) murder of Bob Cassilly, but the fact that a fire in 2014 was determined to be arson. There was another fire in 2016 which was most likely arson as well, since there was nothing flammable in the area where the fire occurred (in your video at 12:46) -- yet an off-duty police officer heard an explosion coming from the structure the same night. And the expensive artwork that had been kept in this location was suddenly missing (according to an interview with Mr Cassilly's widow in the Riverfront Times). Too bad Mr Cassilly's vision never materialized -- this would have been a very good example of "re-purposing material". Thanks Lord for another awesome adventure!

[@lordexplores]

Thanks, Chase. It's sad some people find destruction of other's property and stealing fun. Gives us real explorers a bad name.

[@chaseriver9765]

@@lordexplores I totally agree. That's why I (and all of us here) have so much respect for you, and appreciate all that you do.

[@butcher24yrold]

Been there a couple of times. Always used the train tracks to get in.

[@nightslipkno]

sad that it is never completed en opent, poor Cassily he ad great idees

[@mitchharris6546]

I would love to go check out that place someday if the area wasn’t so dangerous

[@Common_sense_commentary]

Exactly. I live about 30 mins away in St. Louis county and someone was just found dead here.

[@adriangomez3214]

been here at night before...those death holes are even scarier when u cant see the bottom

[@Sharpest_]

This looks like the stuff you build in Fallout 4

[@lordexplores]

Haha, I agree

[@Woodyoncp]

Hey, my sister and I were scoping out the area and were trying to find a good place to park/get in. How did you guys go about this? Awesome video, we’re dying to go in.

[@nemui1fan447]

2 years late but my friends and I are planning a trip out here. We found a way to get in, but now we just gotta stash the car lmao. Did you ever find a good place to park?

[@TheCRTProductions]

Ayyy URBEX LAND! For people like us, y'know? That's an amazing idea! But they guy who's idea it was got beaten to death... so maybe I should shut my mouth... 18:00 Or especially DOWN! This was such a crazy cool explore guys, it looks like they had loooots more planned for the place judging by the materials left behind. You did a great job with the video as well, if this were me making the video... well, I might still be at the place. Well done LordExplores.

[@lordexplores]

Thank you, CRT. I had a lot of fun making it! Happy how it turned out.

[@crystalclearchaos5387]

2:59 you found a stargate congradulations

[@liamjohnston8923]

Those bridges gave me anxiety

[@alissabrown3022]

me and my friends went here late at night 1 night almost 5 yrs ago an 1 of my friends fell thru a hole in the floor, 2 stories high an broke her legs an arm. cool place but pls be careful and do not go at night

[@valeriebarnes6615]

I bet it would've been beautiful

[@cjsbakd]

almost died there lmfao

[@schmidtlandscapingas]

Cool video, I explored that place for 3 hours and feel like I have so much more to explore. Should definitely take a slower longer video to do the place more justice. And also when your in the supply house by the sphinx, that square is an old Anheuser-Busch logo not Ghirardelli.

[@huskerhank9896]

Makes me want to play Fallout 3. Just need to add a few super mutants

[@greatlakestatedestroyerpet117]

Awesome video! That cement block is actually a hollow core precast floor plank. If it fell like that, due to deteriorating walls, it should be in rubble. Even picking those panels up in the wrong spot can make them “shatter.” I erect steel and precast for a living, so it was really cool to see the steel, concrete and precast in this setting. Would have been a unique place to visit, if it had the chance to open. I haven’t researched the guy yet, but judging from all the concrete used alone (cement land, I know) he must have owed someone a lot of money. Therefore, an unfortunate accident. Sorry for the long post, but this was a really cool video. I just subscribed from the cop car video. Stay safe!

[@crystalclearchaos5387]

Would be a cool place for airsoft since people play it in abandoned places that are falling apart all the time

[@ozzykaylor7610]

I’m going here next week if anyone knows the best way in to avoid security please let me know

[@RenoRacing387]

How did it go? I want to go soon.

[@ExploringWithCF]

If he hadn't been killed it would have been,amazing to see what he ended up with there. The standing ring at 3:00 looked like the Stargate. The castle was his crowning achievement before his death and the area around it was the closest to his theme park idea. Loved the suspension bridge and it least if it broke you had a nice soft swamp landing. I can't help wondering if this guy was related to the man that built the concrete water park I Explored a few years back? Lol "instant death holes" I may borrow that phrase in the future Cole. This is definitely one of your best Explores guys.

[@lordexplores]

Thank you, CF. The castle was one of the coolest parts. And yeah, the instant death holes were sketchy! Glad you enjoyed

[@hannahburcar9063]

Went there last week, theres looters there getting wood and burning shit down

[@JessE-ir1dz]

Oh hey lol

[@anupmasaini7993]

3

[@karenwalker4795]

Someone just bought the property.

[@lelemarie6579]

Idk if that intro is true that building as been empty and abandoned since I was a child and I'm 25 now

[@lordexplores]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cementland

[@brittanyhaller1920]

Be careful going there now cops be out that way now

[@benjaminholman8416]

Get your facts straight. He wasn't beaten to death and to say so is really irresponsible. The people who knew him best say it was an accident, I know cause I worked with those people and have heard it myself. Its pretty disrespectful of you to throw that bullshit in your video.

[@samwillows5279]

There was an official medical examiner report that proved so. There was also never an official investigation of his death, nor was there any damage on the bulldozer whatsoever. Denying the truth of his murder is extremely detrimental to his legacy and surviving family, of which were the people who had pushed for the investigation to open in the first place. When it comes to the creator of the City Museum, an attraction that brings in millions of income annually, possibly reconsider positioning the claims of those who worked with him over his family. Bob Cassilly was proven to be murdered. Please reassess your position and delete your comment.

[@GamerGuats]

@@samwillows5279 He was not proven to be murdered. There are two conflicting medical examiner reports, one saying it was an accident, one saying it was homicide.

[@Common_sense_commentary]

@@GamerGuats Either way, if only one investigator determined it to be a homicide that’s enough to reopen the case! His wife also believes he was murdered which is also cause to reinvestigate. None of us were there so we can’t say for sure…