The Bodie Ghost town is one of the best preserved ghost towns in north america, it’s located northeast of Yosemite at the border to Nevada, 13 miles east of Highway 395. The town grew 1859 as a gold-mining settlement but was abandoned in 1940 due to the harsh climate by 1879 it had a population of 5.000 – 7.000 people and 2.000 buildings. Over the time the mines produced a value of...
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The Ho Thuy Tien park opened in 2004 by a tourism company that invested 3 million Dollars into it, meant to increase tourism and bring visitors into the nearby town of Hue located in the central part of Vietnam. But unfortunately like many other ambitious tourism projects in Vietnam it failed. The park has been a home for a bunch of live crocodiles who luckily got transferred to a zoo in Vietnam...
St. Thomas Assembly was an automobile plant located in Southwold, Ontario, Canada that produced many Ford cars, it was built in 1967 with a size of 2,600,000 square foot (240,000 m2). The plant was closed September 15, 2011 and left to rot. Today the factory is almost entirely demolished. The whole location included typical for a car plant conveyer belts, robots and lots and lots of pipes...
Die Terre Rouges Hochöfen befindet sich in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxemburg. Sie wurden 1869 gebaut und 1977 geschlossen. Das Gesamte Areal ist seit 39 Jahren verlassen. Den Namen Terre Rouges hat das Gebiet der rötlichen Erde aufgrund des hohen Eisenerz Vorkommens zu verdanken. Der erste Hochofen wurde 1872 gestartet, bis 1899 wurden drei weitere gebaut und entzündet. 1911 wurde die Fabrik mit...