Mid-century Legend: Hotel Okura Tokyo
Over the last century architectural design in Tokyo has been in a constant state of metamorphosis. A stroll through the country’s largest city confirms this;...
Abandoned Anthrax: Vozrozhdeniye Island
The Aral Sea was known as “the Sea of Islands,” and once upon a time this camp – now in the middle of the desert –...
The Disappearing Aral Sea
Over one hundred ships are mysteriously abandoned in this desert in central Asia. You rub your eyes, but it’s not an optical illusion; no water...
World’s Oldest Space Launch Facility: The Baikonur Cosmodrome
About 1,300 miles (2,100 km) southeast of Moscow in the desert steppe of Kazakhstan, the world’s oldest and largest operational space launch facility is still...
Derinkuyu & The Underground Cities of Cappadocia
In 1963, a man in the Nevşehir Province of Turkey knocked down a wall of his home. Behind it, he discovered a mysterious room. The...
Thames Town: an English Town in China
You’re not far from Shanghai, yet the spire of the Victorian revival church in front of you casts its shadow across a medieval town square....