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    Tyneham, Dorset

    Sacrificed for War: Tyneham, Dorset

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    About an hour west of Bournemouth and less than a half mile from England’s intimidating Jurassic Coast is Tyneham village, a feudal relic and...

    Nueces County Courthouse: Empress in Distress

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    When it was built in 1914, the Nueces County Courthouse was both majestic and massive. The local newspaper proudly declared “the new building poses...
    Begich-Towers-cover

    Begich Towers: An Alaskan Town in a Tower

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    In the 1950s the United States government built a bunker of a residential skyscraper in the Alaskan wilderness. The purpose of the bomb-proof mid-century Hodge...
    Cazinoul-din-Constanta

    Romanian Treasure: Cazinoul din Constanţa

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    Founded in 600 BC, the city of Constanţa (historically known as “Tomis”) is the oldest continually inhabited city in Romania. Its port is the...
    Prora KdF resort

    Prora: the Colossus of Rügen

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    Owner of the title “longest failed beach resort of the Third Reich” belongs to Prora, a mostly abandoned collection of buildings along the Baltic...
    Seaview Hospital bed

    NYC Farm Colony & Seaview Hospital

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    Founded in 1830, the Staten Island Farm Colony was once a sprawling several-hundred acre campus. Sister facility Seaview Hospital was planned and built between...
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    Uncovering the history of the abandoned, forgotten, and unexplained.