This incredible underwater city, trapped in time, is 1341 years old. Shicheng, or Lion City, is located in the Zhejiang province in eastern China. It was submerged in 1959 during the construction of the Xin’an River Hydropower Station. 1,078 large…
Very few resorts will get as ghostly as the Kupari luxury resort in Croatia, which hasn’t seen any paying guests since its last season more than 20 years ago. Kupari is a bay on the Adriatic Sea in an area…
The Ryugyong Hotel sometimes spelled as Ryu-Gyong Hotel), or Yu-Kyung Hotel, is an unfinished 105-story, 330-metre-tall (1,080 ft) pyramid-shaped skyscraper in Pyongyang, North Korea. Its name (“capital of willows”) is also one of the historical names for Pyongyang. The building…
Abandoned North Brother Island, New York North Brother Island, located in between Queens and the Bronx in New York, has a long and fascinating history. The entire island has now been abandoned for nearly 50 years. A morbid past…
Nicosia International Airport was once the main airport for the island of Cyprus, but has now been derelict for nearly forty years. Principally used as the headquarters of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus, the commercial flight area has…
Before the division of Cyprus in 1974, Varosha – a resort in Famagusta – was booming. The rich and famous were drawn by some of the best beaches on the island. Richard Burton and Brigitte Bardot all dropped by –…
The abandoned Queen Chateau in Mito, two-hours northeast of Tokyo, The Queen Chateau soapland is situated on a hill in Mito’s otherwise-thriving red light district, a location that accentuates its multistory castle-inspired layout. If “Dracula” was remade by Vivid Video,…
Contaminated Vehicles from the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster at Rassorva. Over 20 years since the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, many of the contaminated vehicles used in the clean-up operation remain in graveyards in the vast exclusion zone around the reactor.
This “Swingers Tiki Palace,” as it was dubbed by one photographer, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was built in 1972 by strip-club tycoon Billy Hull to be the ultimate party palace. The unique structure felt into decay after Hull was arrested for…
This land originally sought after by both the Japanese and Russians is now controlled by Russia and has always been uninhabited. This amazing building was opened the day the Titanic sunk in 1912. The Orpheum Theater opened in 1912 with…
On an island in a now dried Aral sea, there was a town Aralsk-7. Before 1940s it had a factory that was making foods out of fish, but later it was closed down and rebuilt into a Soviet bio warfare…
