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Tomigusuku, Okinawa, Japan
During World War II, Japanese naval forces in Okinawa, led by Rear Admiral Minoru Ota, built an elaborate underground headquarters, with hundreds of meters of connecting tunnels under a hill in... »
Memento Mori, Ossuaries, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries, Ghost Towns, Disaster Areas, Subterranean Sites | Edited by spinkk, Dylan and others
Peace Park and the A-bomb dome
On Monday, August 6th, 1945, at 8:15 am, a US bomber dropped the first nuclear weapon used in warfare over the city of Hiroshima.
Estimates of the number killed vary from 90,000 to 166,000... »
Museums and Collections, Strange Science, Unique Collections, Memento Mori, Ghost Towns, Disaster Areas | Edited by spinkk and Dylan
Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be
A man made environmental disaster has left a once-great sea dry, the land polluted, and the locals inundated with disease.
The destruction of the Aral Sea is a strange legacy of the US Civil War,... »
Watery Wonders, Ghost Towns, Disaster Areas | Edited by Annetta
Abandoned LA zoo provides a perfect place to experience what it is like to be on the other side of the bars
In a quiet area of Griffith Park in Los Angeles, you can picnic in a bear grotto and climb inside abandoned monkey cages. If you have ever wondered what you appear like to the animals in the zoo,... »
Ghost Towns, Incredible Ruins | Edited by Lisa E
The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere
Nat Mendelsohn had a dream. A city that was going to rival Los Angles, in three hundred and twenty square kilometers of Mojave desert paradise, centered around a beautiful -- though not native to... »
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Legendary "evil" doll has been haunting the citizens of Key West for over 100 years
Robert Eugene Otto -- or Gene, as his family called him -- was just a young boy in the early 1900s when his family's maid gave him a strange, straw-filled doll to play with. Gene loved his... »
Museums and Collections, Ghost Towns, Hoaxes and Pseudoscience | Edited by anhie
Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly empty
Until 1909, Chile had something very special. Known as white gold, Chile saltpeter, or more technically as Sodium nitrate, it was an extremely valuable commodity for two main reasons: it could... »
Ghost Towns, Incredible Ruins | Edited by
This church buried halfway in lava rock is all that remains of a Mexican village destroyed by a volcano
On February 20th 1943 a new volcano began to rise from a cornfield, erupting and slowly consuming two villages in lava and ash. As Paricutin volcano erupted, it is said that two miles away the San... »
Ghost Towns | Edited by Tre and re_nakaba
An abandoned, religious-themed amusement park
In the early 1950s John Baptist Greco, a staunch Roman Catholic, had a vision of a roadside theme park devoted to God. By the end of the decade, he had created exactly that: a theme park built to... »
Ghost Towns, Curious Places of Worship | Edited by Dylan and michelle
