Abandoned industrial plant in Ontario that looks like a space ship

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...

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Terre Rouge Steel Mill

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...

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Bodie Ghost Town, California

The Bodie Ghost toen is one of the best preserved ghost towns in north america, it’s located northeast of Yosemite, 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. Thanks to the low humidity in the surrounding environment many buildings, equipment and cars remain relatively well preserved. Today are still more than...

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Hashima Island Japan (EN)

I’ve decided to create more english content on my blog to be more interesting and readable for an international audience. This is my first try and I will decide later if I’ll switch completely to english blog posts. If you want more English blog posts (or not) feel free to tweet me @alexanderhorl 😉 So lets start with the infamous Hashima Island in Japan. Hashima Island, commonly called...

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