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This is Villa Epecuen, an old tourist town south of Buenos Aires that spent a quarter of a century underwater. Established in the 1920s on the banks of a salt lake, the town was home to over 5,000 residents and a holiday destination to thousands more vacationers from the Argentinian capital. In 1985, a dam [...]
This is the caribbean island of Montseratt in the West Indies. In the 17th century, Britain colonized the island and held on to it ever since. But the British didn’t consider the consequences of building their paradise around a volcano (probably because they were too busy benefiting from the sugar and rum economy they built [...]
As a former Londoner, born & raised, who thought she knew everything there was to know about the city, finding out that there’s been a secret Royal Mail underground train line beneath our feet for over 85 years was just a little bit shocking. A reader sent me a tip this morning about a group [...]
Tokyo: a supercity of the future with unique culture, entertainment and …. cat cafés. By cat cafés, I mean supervised indoor cat rental (with caramelized lattés). For a cover charge according to the desired amount of ‘cat time’, guests can cuddle with feline friends while having a catch-up coffee with human friends, surf the net [...]
A friend sent me the above image this morning which recently appeared on the social media website, 9Gag. The photograph sparked a bit of a debate in the comments section of the site about where this image was actually taken. The source has not been identified and abandoned sites such as Chernobyl, Pripyat and Hashima [...]
When Mr. Escobar wasn’t bombing commercial airlines carrying over a hundred innocent passengers to eliminate one of his enemies on board, spending $2,500 a month worth of rubber bands to wrap up his billions in cash, offering to pay off Columbia’s national debt or engaging in gunfights with Columbian police squads, Pablo liked to kick [...]
I‘ve heard Fucking is fabulous in the Spring. Too old for schoolyard humor? Never! It has a population of just 104 and lies 4 kilometres from the German border in west Austria. And it’s name really is Fucking. The unfortunately-named village (pronounced fooking) is a peaceful place. The only crime ever reported here was for the [...]
As if Alaska wasn’t already wonderfully creepy enough (a minimum of zero hours of sunlight in winter= perfect for vampires), it’s also home to an abandoned igloo hotel. Located 20 miles from the nearest town of Cantwell (population: 222), along the George Parks Highway, this unexpected four-story structure has become a bit of a road-side [...]
If you’ve ever been to Venice, you’ll remember that it’s a chock-a-block city. Not just with with tourists but with houses, shops, palazzos and basilicas that seem to pile on top of each other, squeezed into every nook and cranny. In Venice and most of it’s surrounding islands of the lagoon, there is no more [...]
There is a place where beaches are made not of sand, but of the skeletons of millions of fish. Luxury yacht clubs are now frequented only by pigeons, vacation homes lay open to the elements and RV camp grounds look more like burial grounds. (c) above Jeremy Engleman & JBennett Fitts below Not 60 miles from the [...]
Some cities have a litter problem, some suffer from high crime rates and others might have a lack
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Camping on Mars? Seaside fun with views of Saturn? French artist Djuno Tomsni imagines the perfect
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A room with uninterrupted sea views? Admittedly, it might need a bit of work but this underwater
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Today I thought we could make a quick stop at Villa Pausa on the French Riviera, the former
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When was the last time you felt like complaining to your landlord? It seems there’s always
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Beachfront properties custom-built for movie stars and the Hollywood elite, panoramic views from
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More abandoned p0rn to tie you over this Monday afternoon, this time, Victorian and Art Deco
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(c) El Toro Route 66; where all those wonderfully off-beat attractions of ‘Roadside
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The Rothschilds are known as one of the greatest European banking dynasties ever established,
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It was once known as the “Paris of the West”, the birthplace of the middle
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Thomas Jorion has been exploring abandoned buildings since he was a child and he’s one of
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Little do London tube passengers know as they travel through the maze of the underworld, what may
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