Places

Hidden away in the Brandenburg forest north of Berlin is an abandoned complex with a sinister history, rooted in the soviet past In fact the place used to be so secret, no locals were allowed near it, no one...

Thankfully, the ever present threat of WW3 with the prospect of the obliteration of mankind via the atomic bomb are behind us now. However, relics of the era certainly do remain. Codenamed 17/5001, this...

Every year around the months of spring, thousands of Chinese tourists flock to the The Gorges Reservoir to see an elusive turtle-shaped island rise from the waters of the Muodaoxi River. The event, dubbed...

The haunting yet beautiful image of a once popular grand hotel The luxurious Hotel del Salto opened in 1928 to welcome wealthy travelers visiting the Tequendama Falls area, in Colombia. It is easy to see...

Karosto Prison in Latvia was a brutal military prison turned death camp throughout parts of the 20th Century. Both the Nazi’s and the Soviets used the prison to incarcerate hundreds of prisoners. Many of...

It may seem hard to believe, however there is a village in India where each of the 300 odd buildings has doorways but no doors. The village is Shani Shingnapur, and the residents that live there leave their...

The town of Holland Island was once a thriving fishing village off the coast in the Chesapeake Bay. In the early 1900’s, the island contained 70 homes, local convenience stores, and other buildings. Now,...

The White Sands Missile Range - Home of Trinity Site and Museum It’s a rather unusual museum. All it has on display is a few pebbles of glass, a chunk of concrete about the size of a milking stool and a...

Adolf Hitler was a monster; that much is clear. However, as leader of the Third Reich he did believe that his subjects were deserving of vacation time. Evidence of this can still be found in the sprawling...

Unfortunately there are no shortage of Olympic villages around the world, where after the glory of the event they are left to quietly rot into the landscape. The site of the 1984 Winter Olympics based in...

What better way to heighten awareness of homelessness, while at the same time raising money for a local charity? Faktum Hotels in Gothenburg, Sweden has managed just that with an ingenious project that has...

Lake Hillier within Australia's Recherche Archipelago is a magnificent looking destination. The distinctive like bubble-gum pink of its waters draws photographers from all over the world. From the air, it...

Everyone knows about Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and, now, Fukushima. But what about Kyshtym? On September 29, 1957, an explosion in a steel storage tank containing liquid nuclear waste led to the release...

Beneath a large patch of remote farmland in Western Ukraine, lies the Gypsum Giant cave system. Containing over 127,779 meters of explorable passageways, caves and an underground lake this huge subterranean...

Taking strange architecture to another level is Rishi Sowa’s floating island off the coast of Mexico. The British born artist has created his floating retreat, using a base of over 100,000 empty plastic...