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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Koga Family Land</b> was a small amusement park on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiga_Prefecture" target="_blank">Shiga perfecture</a> of Japan. Built on the shores of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Biwa" target="_blank">Biwa lake</a>, the park shut down sometime in the 90s and was left to decay for the next 20 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What was left from the amusement park, including a restaurant and a cart ride, was finally torn down in 2008. The only thing standing today is its enormous ferris wheel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Western Village</b> or Western Mura (ウェスタン村) was an American west themed amusement park which opened in the early 1970's at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikk%C5%8D,_Tochigi" target="_blank">Nikko</a>, in Japan's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tochigi_Prefecture" target="_blank">Tochigi prefecture</a>, a couple of hours away from Tokyo. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Its first name was Kinugawa Family Ranch and it was run as a family business. At first it was basically an American west style ranch with a few horses and a fishing pond. Over the years though, it kept expanding to include more buildings such as a sheriffs office, a barber shop, a bank, a hotel and many other buildings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the late 1970's it was named 'Western Village' and it kept expanding. It now had ghost houses, amusement arcades, a restaurant and even a replica of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rushmore" target="_blank">Rushmore mountain</a> was added during the 1990's. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Staff would dress up as cowboys and put on shows for visitors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Western World finally closed in 2006. For the next several years the park remained abandoned attracting mainly lovers of </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">haikyo - the Japanese word for abandoned places.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was supposed to bring some of the 'Disneyland' magic in the Philippines but it's construction was never completed and today it sits abandoned. <b>Fantasy World</b> is a theme</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> park located in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemery,_Batangas" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Lemery</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, in the province of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batangas" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Batangas</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, Philippines. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Owned by a Japanese businessman, construction started in 2001. His plans were very ambitious. A large theme park, the largest in the Philippines, modeled after Disneyland with a medieval castle and a large central fountain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijlmerbajes" target="_blank">Bijlmerbajes</a> </b>prison complex in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam" target="_blank">Amsterdam</a>, the Netherlands, was built as a 'humane prison' and opened in 1978. Situated close to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Amstel_station" target="_blank">Amsterdam Amstel railway station</a>, it consists of six high-rise buildings, each operating as a separate prison. The buildings are joined by a 260-meter (850-foot) long tunnel called the ''Kalverstraat'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Being a 'humane prison' the windows didn't have bars at first. However, it turns out the glass wasn't unbreakable, so bars were retroactively fitted. On each tower, measuring 14 stories high, each two floors operate as a different department, connected via open stairs. Two large lifts were used by the prisoners only and a special small lift was available for staff. Each prison department would accommodate different types of prisoners: repeated offenders, drug addicts, prisoners with psychological problems, prisoners for light crimes etc. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Located at the corner of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_State_Route_64" target="_blank">Arizona State Route 64</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_180" target="_blank">U.S. Route 180</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedrock_City_(Arizona)" target="_blank">Bedrock City</a> is mainly visited by tourists who are on their way to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon" target="_blank">Grand Canyon</a>, some 30 miles away. It opened in 1972 after its owner found success with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedrock_City_(South_Dakota)" target="_blank">similar theme park</a> in South Dakota, that one near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rushmore" target="_blank">Mount Rushmore</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the next 9 years, Duke of Lancaster served the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heysham" target="_blank">Heysham</a> - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast" target="_blank">Belfast</a> route, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishguard" target="_blank">Fishguard</a> - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosslare_Harbour" target="_blank">Rosslare</a> crossing and the the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holyhead" target="_blank">Holyhead</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BAn_Laoghaire" target="_blank">Dún Laoghaire</a> service. In 1979 it came out of service and was laid up at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holywell" target="_blank">Holywell, Wales</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Boston's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Row_District" target="_blank">Piano Row</a> is a historic district known for its piano showrooms built in the late 19th century. There, </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">piano dealers M. Steinert & Sons own the building standing at</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> No162 Boylston Street. The six-story building was designed by architects <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradlee,_Winslow_%26_Wetherell" target="_blank">Winslow & Wetherell</a> and </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it was erected in 1896 by company employee Alexander Steinert</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Four stories below the ground, the building features </span><b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinert_Hall" target="_blank">Steinert Hall</a></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, a now abandoned concert auditorium designed in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_style" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Adam-style</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> with fluted </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinthian_order" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Corinthian</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> pilasters separating round arches. In the early 20th century, the 'Little Jewel' as Steinart Hall was called, was considered headquarters for the musical and artistic world of cultured Boston. Among those who performed there, 40 feet below ground, were </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Lh%C3%A9vinne" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Josef Lhévinne</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Hofmann" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Josef Hofmann</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Bauer" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Harold Bauer</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Kreisler" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Fritz Kreisler</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacy_Jan_Paderewski" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Ignacy Jan Paderewski</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Rachmaninoff" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Sergei Rachmaninoff</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The last performance was given in 1942 as the hall closed due to new stricter fire code restrictions enforced after the 1942 </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoanut_Grove_fire" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Cocoanut Grove Nightclub fire</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and a prohibitive cost of updating the hall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2015, </span><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/05/22/building-owner-plans-revive-underground-theater-common-that-been-silent-for-years/8MQY5GGMdKgxu8XMa58fBP/story.html" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">it was reported</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> that the new owners of the building were hoping to restore Steinart Hall and open it again as a concert hall. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">New Jersey's <b>Hagedorn Psychiatric Hospital</b> is a recently abandoned hospital, since the state of New Jersey shut it down in 2011. The hospital has a history dating back to 1907 when the state opened its first sanatorium near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Gardner,_New_Jersey" target="_blank">Glen Gardner</a>, in rural New Jersey. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back then, it was a modern facility able to treat 500 tuberculosis </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">patients</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">annually. Between 1907 and 1929 more than 10,000 people were treated in the sanatorium. Although at first the hospital would accept only "curable" patients, by the 1920's it accepted all cases, regardless of severity. In 1950, after new TB treatments had emerged, the sanatorium broaden its scope of treatments to include all chest diseases. The hospital finally shut down in the 1970's and was left to fall apart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Between car repair shops and apartment buildings, a small airplane graveyard has appeared in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangkok" target="_blank">Bangkok, Thailand</a>. The first fuselage parts, the nose sections of two <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747" target="_blank">Boeing 747s</a> appeared sometime around January 2010. By 2014, two <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_MD-80" target="_blank">MD-82</a> jetliners formerly operated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orient_Thai_Airlines" target="_blank">Orient Thai Airlines</a> were added. One of them had been involved in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-Two-GO_Airlines_Flight_269" target="_blank">fatal 89 person crash</a> at Phuket International Airport in 2007.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the north of Canada, 5 km (3 miles) away from the shore, there's an abandoned island with long history but no population. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel_Island" target="_blank"><b>Herschel Island</b></a>, known as Qikiqtaruk ("island") in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuvialuktun" target="_blank">Inuvialuktun language</a>, had been inhabited by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_people" target="_blank">Thule people</a> for at least 1,000 years according to archaeological excavations. The first European who set foot on the island was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Franklin" target="_blank">Sir John Franklin</a> on 15 July, 1826. At that time the island was a base for whaling, fishing and hunting and was inhabited by 200 to 2000 people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the late 19th century, Herschel Island became a whaling base after whalers discovered that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_Sea" target="_blank">Beaufort Sea</a> was one of the last refuges of the depleted <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowhead_whale" target="_blank">bowhead whale</a>. At the height of the Beaufort Sea whaling period (1893–94) the number of residents on the island was estimated at 1,500, making it the largest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukon" target="_blank">Yukon</a> community at that time. That was also when a number of buildings still standing today were built on the island. The most prominent of those was Community House built in 1893. It included a recreation room, an office for the manager and storekeeper, and storage facilities. Today it is well preserved and it's the island's visitor center. Another building, known as the Bonehouse which was built in the mid-1890s as a storehouse for baleen (whalebone) was were the first court case in the Arctic took place in 1924. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whaling subsided after the first decades of the 20th century but Herschel island saw some renewed activity in the 1970s when it became a temporary safe harbour for oil-drilling ships. The last family permanently living there left the island in 1987. From that year, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qikiqtaruk_Territorial_Park" target="_blank">Qikiqtaruk Territorial Park</a> was established, encompassing the whole island. It is jointly managed by The Government of Yukon and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuvialuit" target="_blank">Inuvialuit</a>. The park is now a UNESCO <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Heritage_Site" target="_blank">World Heritage Site</a>, protected as a cultural and also natural site.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A few miles outside <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Paulo" target="_blank">Sao Paulo</a>, sits the picturesque village of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranapiacaba" target="_blank">Paranapiacaba</a>. It was established in the middle of the 19th century by the British-owned <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Paulo_Railway_Company" target="_blank">São Paulo Railway Company</a>. Designed by Jeremy Bentham according to a prison model style, it was the operational headquarters of the British railway company.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The British had built the zig-zag railway line in the hilly terrain to export coffee beans from the area through the port Santos. For 30 years Paranapiacaba prospered and at one time about 4,000 workers, mostly British citizens, lived there. When automated machines replaced the funicular, the population declined and many buildings were abandoned. The last steam train was decommissioned in 1982. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even though only about 1,000 people live in Paranapiacaba today, the village's abandoned buildings have been well preserved as the government of Brazil has declared it a historic district and has promoted tourism. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It used to be one of the largest military complexes in Europe but it was destructed to keep it from falling into the enemy's hands. <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDeljava_Air_Base" target="_blank">Željava Air Base</a></b> was built by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavia" target="_blank">Yugoslavia's</a> communist government starting in 1948 just on the border between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia" target="_blank">Croatia</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" target="_blank">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Known by the code name 'Objekat 505', construction took about 20 years and cost approximately $6 billion, making it one of the largest and most expensive military construction projects in Europe. Yugoslavia's communist government chose the site, below Mount <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plje%C5%A1ivica" target="_blank">Pljesevica</a>, for its strategic location. The role of the facility was to establish, integrate, and coordinate a nationwide <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early-warning_radar" target="_blank">early warning radar network</a> for Yugoslavia, similar to the American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Aerospace_Defense_Command" target="_blank">NORAD</a>. With radars on top of the mountain, the base was built in an ideal location.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The facility had 5 runways and within the immediate vicinity of the base, there were numerous short-range mobile tracking and targeting radars, surface to air missile sites, mobile surface-to-air missile interceptor systems, and various other supporting facilities. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What made this base special though were its underground facilities. The tunnels ran a total length of 3.5 kilometers (2.2 miles) and the bunker had four entrances protected by 100-ton pressurized doors, three of which were customized for use by fixed-wing aircraft. The complex included an underground water source, power generators, crew quarters and other strategic military facilities. It also housed a mess hall that could feed 1,000 people simultaneously, along with enough food, fuel, and arms to last 30 days without resupply. Fuel was supplied by a 20-kilometer (12.4 mile) underground pipe network.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The airbase was last used extensively during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_Wars" target="_blank">Yugoslav Wars</a>. In 1991, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_People%27s_Army" target="_blank">Yugoslav People's Army</a> destroyed the runways during its withdrawal by filling pre-built spaces for this purpose with explosives and detonating them. The destruction was completed the following year by the forces of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_the_Republic_of_Serb_Krajina" target="_blank">Military of Serbian Krajina</a> which detonated an additional 56 tons of explosives, to make the facilities unusable by the enemies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The destruction of the base caused serious environmental damage in the area. It is said that there are still undetonated explosives in the vicinity of the base and accidents have occurred periodically. Today the former military base serves as a waypoint for illegal immigrants while the local government has launched an initiative to use one of the runways as an airport.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was supposed to become the world's tallest hotel. Instead, it became the world's tallest abandoned building. The pyramid-shaped <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel" target="_blank">Ryugyong Hotel</a></b> is 330 metres (1,080 ft) tall and one of the most prominent features of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang" target="_blank">Pyongyang's</a> skyline. The structure consists of 105 floors and it was originally intended to house five revolving restaurants, and between 3,000 to 7,665 guest rooms</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1992, after it reached its architectural height, construction halted due to the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">economic crisis and famine in North Korea</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> following the collapse of the Soviet bloc. By then, the hotel's construction cost $750 million, consuming 2% of North Korea's GDP. For over a decade, the unfinished building sat vacant and without windows, fixtures, or fittings, appearing as a massive concrete shell while A rusting construction crane remained at the top.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2008, construction resumed by the Egyptian </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orascom_Construction_Industries" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Orascom</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> company. The company had also made a deal to operate North Korea's telecommunications network and installed antennas on top of the building. By 2011 work had finished. Ryogyong Hotel was fitted with windows but not much work had taken place in the hotel's interior. Since then, there have been many rumors of the hotel finally opening but until today it remains unoccupied. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Haunted or not, the <b>Lake Shawnee Amusement Park</b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Shawnee,_West_Virginia" target="_blank">Lake Shawnee, West Virginia</a>, has seen its fair share of death and suffering, which begun even before the small amusement park was built. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Formerly, it was the site of the Clay family massacre. Until 1783, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercer_County,_West_Virginia" target="_blank">Mercer County</a> was home to a Native American tribe. When a European family attempted to settle the land, a turf war began. One day, while the family's patriarch, farmer Mitchel Clay was away hunting, the natives murdered his family, including his youngest son Bartley, while his daughter Tabitha was knifed to death in the struggle and his eldest son Ezekial was kidnapped and burned at the stake. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After burying his family, Mitchel Clay assembled a group of white settlers and took revenge by murdering several Native Americans. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Centuries later, the tragic history of the site didn't stop a </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">businessman named Conley T. Snidow from buying the site of the Clay farm in order to turn it into an amusement park. The park included a swing set, a Ferris wheel, and a pond for swimming. Then, more deaths followed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A little girl in a pink dress was killed after climbing into the circling swing set. Another time, a little drowned in the amusement park’s swimming pond. In total, 6 people died inside the amusement park. In 1966, Lake Shawnee Amusement Park was abandoned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Its new owner claims that the amusement park is haunted and you can hear the wooden swings creak even if they don't move, while sometimes the seats start moving when you get near them. He says that he's even seen a little girl covered in blood. Unsurprisingly, he offers paid tours of the "haunted" amusement park. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It used to make one of the most loved beers in Germany but today it is abandoned. The <b>Bärenquell Brewery</b>, first called Borrusia Brewery, was founded in 1882 in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin" target="_blank">Berlin</a> borough of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treptow-K%C3%B6penick" target="_blank">Treptow-Köpenick</a>. In 1898 it was bought by brewer <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner-Kindl-Schultheiss-Brauerei" target="_blank">Schultheiss-Brauerei AG</a>, which expanded it adding more buildings and equipment. Only two of the original buildings remain today: the official residence and the administrative building, built in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Revival_architecture" target="_blank">neo-Renaissance</a> style.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After World War II, the brewery was nationalized and became part of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkseigener_Betrieb" target="_blank">Volkseigener Betrieb</a>, the large publicly owned corporation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany" target="_blank">East Germany</a>. The harder times came when Bärenquell Brewery was privatized, after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_reunification" target="_blank">Fall of the Berlin Wall</a>. East Germany turned its back to its local products, delighted by what the west had to offer. The eastern beers could not compete anymore to the trendy ones available from the west. That was the time that many breweries closed and </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bärenquell</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> was one of them, shutting its doors in 1994. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_Miranda" target="_blank">Miranda Castle</a></b> (Château Miranda), in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namur_(province)" target="_blank">Namur province</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium" target="_blank">Belgium</a> was built in 1866. It was commissioned by the Liedekerke-De Beaufort family, who had left their previous home, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_of_V%C3%AAves" target="_blank">Vêves Castle</a>, during the French Revolution. Its architect, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Milner" target="_blank">Edward Milner</a>, died before the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_architecture" target="_blank">Gothic</a> castle was completed. Construction finished only in 1907 after the clock tower was erected.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Descendants of the </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Liedekerke-De Beaufort family stayed in the castle until World War II. During the war, a portion of the </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge" target="_blank">Battle of the Bulge</a> took place around Miranda Castle and the property was occupied by German forces. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1950, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Railway_Company_of_Belgium" target="_blank">National Railway Company of Belgium</a> took over the castle and renamed it to <b>Château de Noisy</b>. It was then turned into an orphanage and a camp for children and remained so until the late 1970's. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Château de Noisy was abandoned in 1991 as the </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">costs to maintain it were too high, and a search for investors in the property failed. Although the municipality of Celles had offered to take it over, the family has refused, hoping to find a buyer. Meanwhile, Château was often visited by urban explorers and it was also used as a filming location by the US tv series <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_(TV_series)" target="_blank">Hannibal</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In October 2016, it was reported that the demolition of the castle had began by tearing down its towers. However, as of 2017 the largest part of the castle is still standing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1902, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie" target="_blank">Andrew Carnegie</a>, one of the richest men of the modern time, donated $5.2 million to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" target="_blank">New York City</a> to be used for the construction of 39 public libraries. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Carnegie_libraries_in_New_York_City" target="_blank">Carnegie libraries</a> were heated by coal, and maintaining them was a 24/7 job. That's why every one of them included a large apartment where a live-in custodian and his family could live while also getting paid for their job. Although coal is a thing of a past, some of these secret apartments were occupied until fairly recently. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For example, </span><b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hunts Point Library</b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bronx" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">the Bronx</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> includes an apartment that was occupied until 2001. Today, it is one of the 13 Carnegie apartments that haven't been renovated yet. Built in the architectural style of 14th-century Florence, Hunts Point Library was one of the last Carnegie libraries to be completed, opening in 1929. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Located on the second and third floor of the building, the huge 8-room apartment was occupied by the library's custodian and his family until 2001. One of the perks of the job was that the residents could read books after hours and have parties in the library when it was closed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The custodian program ended towards the end of last century as a 24/7 presence in the library wasn't needed anymore after coal furnaces were removed. During the last years the abandoned library apartments are being converted into usable space for the libraries. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This village was founded in 1968 on the shore of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Anadyr" target="_blank">Anadyr Bay</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Sea" target="_blank">Bering Sea</a>, opposite to the town of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anadyr_(town)" target="_blank">Anadyr</a>. You wouldn't find it on the map during the Soviet era, as part of the village was a military settlement guarding the eastern borders of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" target="_blank">USSR</a>, opposite to Alaska. Those living in the civilian part of the village were mainly engaged in lignite mining. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union" target="_blank">fall of USSR</a> and the elimination of a part of the country's nuclear weapons, the military part of the village was abandoned. The officers' club, a school and a shopping center were shut down. That was the beginning of the end for the village. In 2013, the local authorities decided to move the last remaining residents to Pervomaysky district </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as 70% of the village was abandoned by then.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For more than a thousand years, the Romanesque town of Sant Romà de Sau was standing in what is today in the Sau valley of Catalonia, Spain. It did so until the 1960's when the government decided to create a reservoir that would submerge the town. The residents left, taking with them their valuables as well as their dead, leaving behind only the empty buildings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The creation of the reservoir flooded Sant Romà de Sau submerged the town, covering everything but the top of the town's church. The tip of the bell tower can be seen even when the level of the water is high. During drought conditions, when water levels fall, the rest of the church, as well as other ruins of the town can be seen as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During one of the dry seasons, engineers reinforced the church so it would remain standing, as it had already started attracting visitors to the area. Today, tourists often visit the Sau reservoir to see the submerged church as well as other ruins of the town, including an empty cemetery and the foundations of other buildings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The submerged church reminds us of </span><a href="http://desertedplaces.blogspot.com/2016/01/a-semi-submerged-church-in-northern.html" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">a similar one in South Tyrol, Italy</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back in the early 1960's it wasn't possible for Japanese tourists to travel oversees, so the country's tourism industry tried to compensate by building equivalent resorts closer to home. The island of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachij%C5%8D-jima" target="_blank">Hachijo-jima</a>, part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izu_Islands" target="_blank">Izu islands</a> in the Philippine sea, was chosen for its subtropical climate and it was promoted as the 'Hawaii of Japan'. With a distance of 287 kilometers (178 miles) south of Tokyo, it was possible to reach the island by ferry or by plane.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The island saw a lot of investments with many new hotels being built. The largest of them was lavish <b>Hachijo Royal Hotel</b>. Modeled on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Baroque_architecture" target="_blank">French Baroque architecture</a>, its gardens contained plaster renditions of Greek statues and ornate water fountains. The hotel attracted clients from Japan's expanding middle class and was very successful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the following decades things changed as Japanese tourists could now visit other countries easier. The prospect on spending their holidays on the black volcanic sands of </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hachijo-jima wasn't so appealing when instead they could visit Thailand, Guam or even Hawaii. The hotel changed names several times, with the last one being </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hachijo Oriental Resort prior to its demise and eventual closure around 2006.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since then, the tropical heat and saltwater has ensured a swift deterioration of the hotel, while thick vegetation has covered its exterior. Inside the hotel, everything appears to have been left behind, from furniture to computers and other equipment. However, it doesn't look like it's possible for it to open again anytime soon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The abandoned <b>Istvántelek Train Yard</b> occupies a vast area of land outside <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest" target="_blank">Budapest</a>. Also known as the Red Star Train Graveyard, it is the resting place of more than 100 train cars and locomotives that have been abandoned in various states of disrepair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Among them, many German rail cars that could be among those that carried hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to their death in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp" target="_blank">Auschwitz</a> during Nazi occupation in World War II. The </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Red Star Train Graveyard comes from a </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">few Hungarian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%81V_Class_424" target="_blank">MAV 424 steam engines</a> that bear a red star on their fronts. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also in the yard, many Soviet train cars brought to be repaired before being exhibited in the Budapest Railway Museum but never made it to the display and were instead abandoned there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitchurch_Hospital" target="_blank">Whitchurch Hospital</a></b> opened in 1908, it was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff" target="_blank">Cardiff's</a> largest mental health hospital. As the population of the city had expanded greatly during the late 19th century, there was need for a large psychiatric hospital to treat patients that were until then held in other institutions around Wales. Named 'Cardiff City Asylum' it was built over a period of 10 years and with a cost of £350,000.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The main hospital covered 5 acres and consisted of 10 wards, 5 for men and 5 women, that could accommodate 750 patients. Like many <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_era" target="_blank">Victorian</a> institutes, it was designed as a self-contained facility, with its own farm, were patients could work, water tower and power house which contained two steam engines powering electric generators and was decommissioned only in the mid-1980s. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During wartime, the hospital was converted into a military facility. It was called Welsh Metropolitan War Hospital during World War I and in World War II it became an emergency service hospital treating British, US Army and German personnel, while also offering early treatment of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posttraumatic_stress_disorder" target="_blank">posttraumatic stress disorder</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As Whitchurch Hospital had been constructed over a century ago, it wasn't suitable for the needs of modern psychiatric care. In the 2000s an ongoing programme to phase out and replace the old building took place. Some facilities were moved to other hospitals while other wards were replaced by community-based services. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On May 12th, 2008, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Sichuan_earthquake" target="_blank">magnitude 8.0 earthquake</a> hit a mountainous region in southwestern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan" target="_blank">Sichuan province</a> of China. Over 70,000 people lost their lives while hundreds of thousands were injured and 5 million remained homeless. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Beichuan county 3,000 to 5,000 people were killed and 80% of buildings were destroyed. Qushan Town which was until then Beichuan's county seat was abandoned but instead of pulling them town, authorities decided to stabilize and preserve the ruins as part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beichuan_Earthquake_Museum" target="_blank">Beichuan Earthquake Museum</a>. There were hydraulic engineering projects to help preserve the site and an underground museum was built at the site of of the old Beichuan High School. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In its early days one of the most faithful customers was billionaire aviator </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Howard Hughes</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> who would make several visits while he was living in nearby Las Vegas. He would fly there are a small airstrip exists next to the brothel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cottontail Ranch </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was licensed as prostitution is legal in the state of Nevada, the bureau of Land Management evicted her in the 1970's when </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">word leaked of the government's role. In 1974, Harrell </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">attempted to run for a Nevada Assembly seat in 1974 gaining national attention. </span></div>
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