Jazirat al Hamra, which translates to Red Island, has a reputation for being haunted. Established sometime in the 14th century, the once thriving fishing and pearl-diving village of over 300 houses and 13 mosques was suddenly abandoned in 1968. And…
Mystery of the man missing since 2009 The “mummified” body of a round-the-world German sailor has been found slumped on his “ghost yacht” next to the radio telephone after he apparently tried to make a desperate emergency call. The strangely…
Mystery surrounds why NASA never returned to the moon! Why did the Apollo missions 18 – 19 – 20 really get cancelled? All three cancelled missions were so-called ‘J-series’ missions like Apollos 15–17 (Apollo missions were originally planned in lettered…
The brave astronauts who risked their lives to venture into the unknown have been hailed as the heroes of the space race. But the incredible infrastructure that sent these men and women into orbit has largely been forgotten, leaving haunting…
The missing Kaz 11 The 32.2 ft catamaran was found floating nearly 88 nautical miles off the northern coast of Australia in 2007. The three man crew have never been found. The boat was discovered with its engine running and…
Belchite, in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, is one of the most well-known ghost towns in Spain. Before the 1930s, Belchite was a growing city, with many services. As a consequence of the Battle of Belchite, during the Spanish Civil…
Estacion Canfranc, Spain This used to be one of the three biggest railway stations in Europe. Situated in Spain, near the French border, a town built up around it called Canfranc Estacion. Old trains, long abandoned to rust, set the…
Book Tower, Detroit – 38 floors, 475 feet (145 m) Standing tall and beautiful. The Italian Renaissance style Book Tower took ten years from 1916 to 1926 to build and was completed just at the beginning of the Art Deco…
The former ‘Queen of Memphis’: The Sterick Building in Memphis, Tennessee, has been empty since 1986 Formerly known as Crescent City Towers and Crescent City Residences, New Orleans’ third tallest building – the Plaza Tower – stands dormant in the…
Easily one of the most bizarre abandoned buildings in the world: an otherworldly “saucer” on Mount Buzludzha, Bulgaria An iconic symbol, intended to mark Bulgaria out amongst the rest of the communist world… The House-Monument of the Bulgarian Communist Party…
Dartmouth, MA, the remains of Lincoln Park’s Comet Roller Coaster Nara Dreamland theme park in Japan Nara Dreamland theme park in Japan Spreepark PlanterWald, Berlin Spreepark PlanterWald, Berlin Takakanonuma Greenland Park, Japan
The world’s second largest man-made hole, Mirny was constructed by Stalin to satisfy the Soviet Union’s demand for industrial diamond. Further digging efforts were eventually abandoned when it became too difficult to continue digging this massive hole. The Ryugyong Hotel…
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