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Sometimes Interesting appendix article count: 149
- ADX Florence (toughest prison)
- Afton Mountain, Virginia
- Agdam, Azerbaijan (Ghost Town of War)
- Ambassador Apartments (Gary, Indiana)
- Anchors at Algarve, Portugal
- Antonov An-225 Mriya
- Anthrax Island (Vozrozhdeniye, Uzbekistan)
- Aral Sea (The Disappearing Sea)
- Armour Meat Packing Plant (East St. Louis)
- Baikonur Cosmodrome (oldest space launch facility)
- Bannerman’s Castle
- Bagger 293 (largest vehicle in the world)
- Beach Pneumatic Transit (first subway)
- Begich Towers (BTI) in Whittier, Alaska
- Berkeley Pit, Montana (copper mine)
- Bouvet Island (remote island)
- Buck Hill Inn (Poconos, PA)
- Buckminster Fuller’s Dome Home
- Buckner Building (City Under One Roof)
- Bugatti EB110: Rise & Fall of a Supercar (and its abandoned factory in Italy)
- Byblos, Lebanon (Oldest city in the world)
- Cahokia (U.S.A.’s oldest civilization)
- Cazinoul din Constanţa (Romanian casino)
- Centralia, PA
- Chelyabinsk-40, Russia
- City United Methodist Church (Gary, Indiana)
- Ciudad Real Central Airport
- Coco Palms Resort
- Concrete Arrows (U.S. Airmail Beacon System)
- Conservatory under the Lake (Whitaker Wright estate)
- Consonno, Italy (City of Toys)
- Craco, Italy
- D.B. Cooper (unsolved hijacking)
- Dallol, Ethiopia (hottest place in the world)
- Dancing Mania
- Derinkuyu Underground City (Anatolia, Turkey)
- Detroit Schools
- Dixie Square Mall (closed shopping mall)
- Dogs of the Special Forces
- Dome Home, Florida (sinking into the sea)
- Door to Hell (Turkmenistan)
- Duluth, Missabe, and Iron Range Railroad (Minnesota railroad history)
- Dyatlov Pass Incident (unsolved Russian mystery)
- Eagle Mountain, California (abandoned company town)
- Ellen Austin Encounter (ghost ship)
- Emerson School (Gary, Indiana)
- Empire, Nevada (abandoned company town)
- Falling From Airplanes (surviving falls without parachutes)
- Fordlândia, Brazil (failed Henry Ford company town)
- Forest Haven Asylum (Wash. D.C.)
- Fort Carroll (former military fort now a bird sanctuary)
- Foxconn (Chinese Apple products factory)
- Gary-Alerding Settlement House (Gary, Indiana)
- Gennie Pilarski (troubled youth lost in the system)
- Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay (an entire abandoned fleet)
- Giethoorn, Netherlands (the town with no roads)
- The Glass Bank (demolished building from Cocoa Beach, Florida)
- Glenn Dale Hospital (D.C. tuberculosis sanatorium)
- Grand Hotel of Lopud Island, Croatia (formerly Yugoslavian luxury hotel)
- Grande Hotel of Beira, Mozambique (former luxury hotel turned ghetto)
- Guiyu, China (industrial waste)
- Hart Island, New York (burial place for NYC’s homeless, poor, and unidentified persons)
- Hashima, Japan (island shaped like a battleship)
- Holland Island, Chesapeake Bay (erosion claims the last house)
- Holy Land U.S.A. (Bible theme park)
- Horace Mann School (Gary, Indiana)
- Hotel Okura Tokyo
- Howard Johnson’s, Host of the Bygone Ways
- Hudson River State Hospital (fourteen decades of mental hygiene)
- Hurricane Sandy Salvaged Vehicles
- Irish Hills Towers (mid-century roadside landmark)
- Ishi (last wild Native American)
- Kadykchan, Russia
- Klomino, Poland
- Kolmanskop, Namibia
- Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong
- La Rinconada, Peru (highest city in the world)
- Lake Vostok, Antarctica
- Laurel Hill Tunnel (Ganassi Racing Coastdown Tunnel)
- Lighthouse Reference Guide
- Mahencha Apartments (Gary, Indiana)
- Manteno State Hospital
- Mar Sem Fim (Antarctica shipwreck)
- Marble Hill Nuclear Plant (abandoned nuclear plant project)
- Mary Celeste (abandoned ship found at sea)
- Monte Palace Hotel (São Miguel, Azores)
- Morristown College (Tennessee, USA)
- New Milford Waterworks of the Hackensack Water Company
- New South China Mall (world’s largest empty mall)
- New York City Farm Colony & Seaview Hospital
- North Brother Island (New York City’s quiet island with dark past)
- North Wilkesboro Speedway, Defunct Pillar of NASCAR
- Nouadhibou, Mauritania (world’s largest ship graveyard)
- Nueces County Courthouse, Corpus Christi TX (04.13.2017)
- Ochamchire, Abkhazia (destroyed by war)
- Oklahoma’s Hidden Chalkboards
- Old Car City U.S.A. (auto junkyard)
- Ospedale al Mare, Venice (abandoned hospital in Italy)
- Overhills, North Carolina (former Rockefeller estate)
- Oymyakon, Russia (coldest town in the world)
- Packard Factory, Detroit (once the largest factory under one roof)
- Palace Theater (Gary, Indiana)
- Palmerston Island
- Penthouse Adriatic Club at the Haludovo Palace Hotel (Yugoslavian Casino resort)
- Phineas Gage (man survives impalement)
- Plymouth, Montserrat (buried by a volcanic eruption)
- Pressmen’s Home, Tennessee (abandoned union company town)
- Project MKUltra (former CIA LSD program)
- Prora, Germany (resort of the Third Reich)
- Psychic Temple of Long Beach (revitalizing L.A.)
- Ravenswick Hall (abandoned estate in North Yorkshire, England)
- Reid Memorial Hospital (abandoned hospital in Richmond, Indiana)
- Roanoke – The Lost Colony
- Ryugyong Hotel, North Korea (an impressive unfinished hotel)
- S.S. America (chronicling the life of a celebrated ship)
- Salton Sea (California wasteland)
- San Francisco in 1906 (video of the city days before earthquake)
- Sanatorio de Abona (Leper Colony of Tenerife)
- Sanzhi, Taiwan (failed UFO-pod resort)
- Sealand (world’s smallest country)
- Seaview Hospital & NYC Farm Colony
- Sheraton Hotel (demolished hotel in Gary, Indiana)
- Shibam, Yemen (Manhattan of the desert)
- Sigiriya, Sri Lanka (lion rock)
- Six Flags New Orleans (abandoned theme park)
- Skinburness Hotel (abandoned hotel in Cumbria, UK)
- Somerton Man (Taman Shud Case) (unsolved murder)
- Soviet Automotive Collection (cars parked in the forest forever)
- Spreepark, Berlin (abandoned theme park in Germany)
- Swaledale (lead mining in England)
- Swannanoa Estate (a crumbling marble estate)
- St. Francis Dam (U.S. historic engineering disaster)
- St. Mary’s Mercy Hospital (abandoned hospital in Gary, Indiana)
- St. Peter’s Seminary (abandoned seminary in Cardross, Scotland)
- Star Dust (airplane crash)
- Superconducting Super Collider (Texas, USA)
- Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic
- Texas City Disaster (deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history)
- Thames Town (English village built in Songjiang, China)
- Tristan da Cunha (remote island)
- U.S. Fidelis mansion (Atkinson manor built with deception & fraud)
- Valdanos, Montenegro (abandoned European resort)
- Varosha, Cypress (warzone has been off-limits to everybody for decades)
- Villa Epecuén, Argentina (entire city buried by water)
- Voynich Manuscript (mysterious document)
- Willow Bridge Service Station, County Durham UK (abandoned petrol)
- Witley Court, England (grand English estate in arrested decay)
- World Discoverer Cruise Ship (shipwrecked in Pacific)
- Wright Brothers Factory (oldest airplane factory in the world)
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