Abandoned TV studios in Hong Kong Near the Che Kung temple, in Ho Chung village of Hong Kong there is an old industrial building. A factory at first, it was later converted to TV studios for Hong Kong’s ATV channel. The studios were abandoned during the 2000’s as the channel moved to … Read more
The abandoned towns of Fukushima Four years after the devastating Japan earthquake and tsunami that left nearly 19,000 people dead or missing and displaced more than 300,000, the surrounding towns of Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant remain abandoned. Even today, tens of thousands of survivors live in temporary housing as the area surrounding … Read more
Hashima, also known as Gunkajima or Battleship Island due to its shape, is an abandoned island an hour away from the port of Nagasaki in Japan. Mitsubishi bought the island in 1890 to use it as a base for an underwater coal mining facility. There, they built Japan’s first concrete building (9 … Read more
Camp Century was an Arctic US military scientific research base in Greenland, located 240 kilometers east of Thule Air Base. When it was first built, Camp Century was publicized as a demonstration for low-cost ice-cap military outposts and a facility for scientific research. Camp Century was a training camp for Project Iceworm, … Read more
The strange history. In the early 1900′s, during the second world war, Winona and Norman Stephens were convinced by a German named Herr Schmidt that when Germany ultimately won the war, the American government would not be able to stay afloat thus leading to a time of anarchy in the United States. … Read more
The burnt-out shell of Süd-Bowling in Steglitz suggests happier times were had here before. It used to be one of the city’s most successful bowling alleys, with 16 lanes. Now the old Kegelbahn has none. It has been abandoned, ignored, burnt and shat upon so often nobody remembers what it was before … Read more
Joyland: An abandoned amusement park in Kansas Joyland was once the largest theme park in central Kansas but today it remains abandoned and vandalised. It opened in 1949 and it remained in continuous operation for 55 years, until 2004 when it shut down due to economical troubles and safety concerns. The park … Read more
The abandoned ‘Model Prison’ of Cuba Built by dictator Gerardo Machado in the Isla de la Juventud, ‘Presidio Modelo’, the Model Prison was where everyone who went to jail for more than 180 days in Cuba was sent. It opened in 1936 but it’s construction began a decade earlier. The prison was … Read more