Curious if we’ve featured something before or looking for an old post? Check here for a continuously-updated list of our sometimes interesting articles. (click each title for link to story)
[ Sometimes Interesting articles sorted alphabetically ]
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Sometimes Interesting appendix article count: 149
Courtesy Idiot Photographer
- 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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i wish you would post some more please 🙂 its really educational and entertaining to read this type of things
Great site, read every page! Thanks for the enlightenment
Great site you’ve got here.. It’s hard to find high quality writing
like yours nowadays. I really appreciate blogs like this!
Thanks for the good read! please post some more soon!
Thank you, I appreciate all the kind words. They definitely help keep the blog going. I will strive to continue posting interesting things in 2014. Thank you all for reading. 🙂
Just finished the last (first) story and already having withdrawals. I NEED more stuff! Excellent website! Thank you!
Thank you Art! I’m working on that sir, have a couple of stories in the pipeline and a looser upcoming schedule should permit more researching & writing! Thank you for the comment. 🙂
Thanks for the good reads. I enjoyed them. Please keep them coming.
Thank you for reading my articles and taking the time to comment. I appreciate the feedback 🙂
Love this site, I stumbled upon it sometime last year. I live in Connecticut, which is the site of some interesting abandoned places. Fairfield Hills, the former mental hospital, comes to mind with its barred windows and blocked underground tunnels. Dudleytown in Cornwall is probably the best CT site, the remains of a very old settlement. Today, it’s considered to be one of the most “haunted” places in America. Holyland USA in waterbury is another. It’s a crumbling former biblical park. It is about to start undergoing renovations, though. Still, it’s a creepy, decaying walk through “biblical times” with an amazing view of the city. If you need new places, I would love to see an entry about them!
I hope you keep finding new places to write about, it’s fascinating!
Thank you Christine, and thanks for recommending some places in Connecticut. I have unintentionally neglected the state and need to rectify that, so now I have some leads to work with. I’ll start looking in to these suggestions and see if we can’t get something from CT on the list. Thanks again! 🙂
The Dyatlov Pass Incident brought me here and now I’ve been stuck here for two days reading through the remainder of your posts (though I’m not complaining!). Thank you for taking the time to enlighten us on these fascinating cases throughout the world.
Aw shucks, thanks. I’m flattered you spent that much time reading the blog! Thank you for taking the time to stop by and comment, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate when people take the time to do so. Thanks for reading. 🙂
Brilliant site, need more interesting articles to read! Hope there’s plenty more in 2015
Thank you Heather, I appreciate the kind words. I hope to bring more interesting articles out this year, recently I’ve been in talks with others to expand the site’s content. Soon! Cheers, thanks for the comment. 🙂
Is this site itself now abandoned and forgotten? That would be ironic.