Holland Island in the Chesapeake Bay

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Today there's not much left of the Holland island, named after the early colonist Daniel Holland who inhabited it in the 1600s. Situated in the Chesapeake Bay, in Dorchester County, Maryland, the island had about 360 residents in 1910, a community of fishers and farmers, making it one of the largest inhabited islands in the Chesapeake Bay. Among the many building on the island there were 70 homes, many stores, a post office, a two-room school with two teachers, a church, and a community center.

Holland Island though is primarily made up of clay and silt and not rock. The wind and tide began to seriously erode the island in 1914 and in 1918 the last family left Holland Island after a tropical storm damaged the island's church. The island continued to subside year by year and today at high tide the island is underwater. In October 2010, the last remaining house on Holland Island, built in 1888, collapsed.

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An abandoned NSA spying station in Berlin

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Teufelsberg (German for Devil's Mountain) is an artificial hill in west Berlin built by Second World War rubble. On top of that hill is where the American National Security Agency (NSA) built one of its largest listening stations. 'The Hill', as it was known to American soldiers, began operation in 1961 while a permanent construction was built in 1963. 

It remained active until the fall of East Germany and the Berlin Wall, but after that the station was closed and the equipment removed. A group of investors bought the hill in the early 90s from the City of Berlin with the intention to build hotels and apartments but this never happened. Today, the buildings and radar domes still remain in place.

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Abandoned Russian cinemas

Between 2010 and 2011, Russian photographer Sergey Novikov travelled around Moscow and St Petersburg to take photos of old movie theaters, some of them abandoned and other reused. Novikov says "I prefer an engrossing film to disgusting popcorn. I don't mind shifting about in a squeaky chair, soaking in the atmosphere of an old cinema. Unfortunately, the films have already left them." All photos by Sergey Novikov.

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The abandoned 'Model Prison' of Cuba

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Built by dictator Gerardo Machado in the Isla de la Juventud, 'Presidio Modelo', the Model Prison was where everyone who went to jail for more than 180 days in Cuba was sent. It opened in 1936 but it's construction began a decade earlier. The prison was a replica of Joliet prison in Illinois. Until today, 'Presidio Modelo' is known as the ideal design of a 'panopticon' prison. The cells are built at the edge of a circular building and a tower in the middle allows the watchmen to observe all cells from the same position while the inmates can't know when they're being watched. 

Fidel Castro and his brother Raul were also imprisoned there for perpetrating the attack at Moncada Barracks which started the Cuban Revolution. After Castro's triumph in 1959, Presidio Modelo was used to jail political dissidents, counter-revolutionaries, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and anyone else considered an enemy of the Socialist Cuban state. By 1961, due to the overcrowded conditions (6,000 to 8,000 political prisoners at one time), it was the site of various riots and hunger strikes. 

The prison was closed by the government in 1967. Today Presidio Modelo serves as a museum national monument and is visited by Cubans and foreign tourists. 


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Sathorn Unique: Bangkok's ghost skyscraper

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The construction of the Sathorn Unique tower in the center of Bangkok begun in the early '90s when the Thai economy was booming. The 49-store skyscraper was meant to become a modern residence for affluent citizens of Bangkok. The Asian Financial Crisis though changed all that. The tower was abandoned in 1997, when the construction was 80% completed. Since then, it's often visited by urban explorers who often climb to the top for a magnificent view of the Thai capital.

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An abandoned tropical swimming pool in the Netherlands

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Pool Tropicana used to be a big attraction in the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands until 2010 when the tropical indoor swimming pool was shut down with plans to be demolished. Before that, Dutch photographers Frank Hanswijk and Rutger Geerling took photos of the abandoned swimming pool.

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Joyland: An abandoned amusement park in Kansas

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Joyland was once the largest amusement park in Wichita, Kansas but today it remains abandoned and vandalized. It opened in 1949 and it remained in continuous operation for 55 years, until 2004 when it shut down due to economical troubles and safety concerns. 

The park had more than 24 amusement rides, a 1949 roller coaster, a miniature train (built between 1905 and 1910), and a Mammoth Military Band Organ (or Wurlitzer Style 160, built around 1905). In 2006, maintenance works took place aiming to reopen the park again but this never happened. Today, an organization is trying to raise funds in order to restore Joyland. 

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Inside an abandoned secret Russian military base

In February 2012 only 5 people were allowed to enter inside this abandoned Cold War era Russian military base on Kotlin island. Inside the base, part of which was a coastline anti-ship complex, there are many vehicles in good condition. The base was abandoned more than a dozen years ago. 

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Maunsell Forts: The abandoned sea forts from World War II

To protect London and other Thames settlements during World War II, the Royal Navy built several Maunsell forts, named after their designer, Guy Maunsell. During the war, the forts shot down 22 aircraft and about 30 flying bombs. They were decommissioned in the late 1950s. During the 60s, many of them were used as offshore pirate radio stations, as their size made them ideal antenna platforms. Today, Fort Roughs is occupied by a family claiming that the fort is an independent nation, called the Principality of Sealand.

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The abandoned Château Rochendaal

Castle Rochendaal was built in 1881 by Jean-Henri-Paul Ulens, a lawyer and later mayor of the city of St. Truiden in Belgium. During World War II the small castle was occupied by the Nazis and became part of a Luftwaffe airfield which included 3 runways. Château Rochendaal was renovated and used as a residence for many high-ranking officers. After the War, the castle was taken over by the Belgian Air Force and used again as an officers' residence until 1996 when it was abandoned.

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