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...
The Terre Rouge was a big entity of the iron ore industry in Luxembourg formerly called ARBED, and now part of the Arcelor/Mittal Group. It’s located in Esch-sur-Alzette. The history of the site began in the year 1870 when the authorization was given to start the construction of the “Brasseur” factory. In 1872 the first iron ore furnace was heated, and by 1899 three more were...