Strange Places – SALAR DE UYUNI
Strange Places – SALAR DE UYUNI At 4,085 square miles in size Salar de Uyuni is the biggest “salt flat” in the world. What is even more remarkable is that it is over 3,500 metres above sea level and is…
Strange Places – GREAT BLUE HOLE – BELIZE
Strange Places – GREAT BLUE HOLE – BELIZE Found on both land and in the ocean throughout the Bahamas and the national waters of Belize are deep circular cavities known as Blue Holes which are often the entrances…
Londons Underground Mystery – Secret Station
Bull & Bush (originally to be named North End, but more recently given the nickname Bull & Bush by London Underground Staff) is unique in having the distinction of being a closed Underground station that never even opened! Originally…
Easter Island – The mystery of the “walking” statues
One of the astonishing facts about the stone statues or moai of Easter Island is that 95 per cent of them all came from the same quarry, known as Rano Raraku. Of the 887 statues known to exist on…
Modern Ghost Town – Centralia, Penn, USA
In May 1962, five members of a volunteer first company were hired by the Centralia Borough Council to clean up the landfill of the town of Centralia in Pennsylvania. After burning the dump, the firefighters let the landfill burn for…
Ghost Town – Hashima Island, Japan
Hashima Island; commonly called Gunkanjima (???; meaning “Battleship Island”) is one among 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture about 15 kilometers from Nagasaki itself. The island was populated from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility. The…
Modern Ghost Town – Motor City, Detroit USA
Americas newest ghost town Detroit – The fastest growing ghost town in USA? Once the cornerstone of America‘s industrial revolution, Detroit, at almost 50 percent, now holds the highest rate of unemployment in the United States. The City is deeply…
Ghost Town – Humberstone and Santa Laura, Chile
This town was founded in 1862, around a nitrate mine in La Palma, although the name of Humberstone did not come with it’s foundation, but later, in 1925, when it was named after the mine manager who brought prosperity…
Modern Ghost Town – Prypiat, Ukraine
On April 26, 1986, an explosion occurred at the No. 4 reactor of the nuclear power station at Chernobyl, in the then-Soviet state of Ukraine. It was the worst disaster in the history of nuclear energy production. The radiation spread…
Modern Ghost Town – Beichuan
In May 2008, officials in the Chinese province of Sichuan announced that the city of Beichuan may be moved to a neighboring county leaving the old city abandoned. Beichuan was one of the areas hardest hit by an earthquake earlier…
Ghost Towns – Gunanjima (Japan) : the forbidden island
This island is one among 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture of Japan about 15 kilometers from Nagasaki itself. It is also known as “Gunkan-jima” or Battleship Island thanks to its high sea walls. It began in 1890 when…