Tag: Abandoned
Budget Cuts: Detroit Schools
Over the last decade attendance in the Detroit school system has experienced a 50% decline, dropping from over 170,000 students to just 83,000 enrolled....
Hotel that took 25 Years to Build: The Ryugyong
North Korea has not historically been known for progress or leading the world in anything. In the mid-1980s they wanted to change that perception...
Abandoned coal mining town in Siberia: Kadykchan, Russia
Deep in the Magadan region in remote Siberia, a coal mining town known as Kadykchan was built by Gulag prisoners during World War II. At...
Abandoned Mediterranean Resort: Varosha Quarter in Famagusta, Cyprus
In the early 1970’s Varosha, Cyprus was one of the Mediterranean’s most glamorous and popular tourist destinations. An upscale quarter in Famagusta Bay, its...
Abandoned Resort: Sanzhi, Taiwan
Sanzhi might look like an outcropping of structures from an episode of Star Trek, but the site is actually home to the remains of...
The Island Shaped Like a Battleship: Hashima
Populated from 1887 to 1974, Hashima was originally purchased by Mitsubishi to be run as a coal mining facility. Just off the coast of...