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• March 21, 2010 hross added Castle Town Ghost Town
  

  Castle Town Ghost Town

  Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane

  The ghost town of Castle is one of many towns created and ruined by the silver rush in the late 1800s. The first mine registered on the site was the (oddly named) North Carolina mine in 1884, but... »

  Ghost Towns | Edited by hross, Dylan and others

• March 21, 2010 hross added Lake Shore Inn
  

  Lake Shore Inn

  Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course

  The Lake Shore Inn in California City, a ghost town north of Los Angeles, was abandoned more than two decades ago but is still standing today, refusing to fall—for now. Still intact are the... »

  Architectural Oddities | Edited by hross, Nicholas Jackson and others

• March 21, 2010 hross added Arthouse Tacheles
  

  Berlin, Germany

  Arthouse Tacheles

  An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune

  “Tacheles” is an old Jewish word meaning to disclose, to reveal or to speak clearly. The slang meaning of the word was to bring something to an end. Located in former East Berlin, the... »

  Outsider Art, Unique Collections | Edited by hross, Dylan and others