Category: Strange Places

More Ghost Towns – Gallery

[portfolio_slideshow size=full] This may look like your average German suburb on a quiet day, but it’s actually a planned community 30 kilometers outside of Shanghai. This is Anting German Town, a one-square-kilometer residential development founded in 2001 and built specifically…
New Ghost Town Pictures

What in the world could cause an entire city to be abandoned? Some become unlivable due to environmental disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis to nuclear meltdowns (as with Pripyat, shown below). Others become the center of military activity and…
Mount Yamantaw – Secret Bases

Mount Yamantaw is, at 5,381 feet, the tallest mountain in Russia’s southern Ural range. The U. S. government is on record as stating that it strongly believes in the existence of a massive stockpile of nuclear weapons hidden in this…
Vatican Secret Archives

As the confidential correspondence of popes, princes and potentates, the Vatican Secret Archives have been jealously guarded for centuries. The priceless documents span more than a millennium, from the 8th century to modern times, and feature a cast of historical…
André Maginot Underground Shelter

Where to spend the night of December 21, 2012? This is not an idle question for people who believe in the imminent doomsday but are still concerned about salvation. For those who believe that (according to the Mayan calendar) the…
ANCIENT FORTRESS FOUND IN SPAIN

  Spanish archaeologists have discovered an impressive structure with 4,200-year-old outer walls and six pyramid-shaped towers, representing the most architecturally advanced Bronze Age fortress. Called La Bastida, the Spanish fortification system stood in the sierras of Totana, in the southeastern…