1. Fengdu ghost city
The history of Fengdu ghost town can be traced back to China more than 2000 years ago. This abandoned city is located on the Bank of the Yangtze River. Local people believe that this is a place where ghosts and ghosts live, and it is also the entrance to the underworld for human beings. Fengdu is believed to have been founded in the Han Dynasty by two Taoist hermits, Yin Changsheng and Wang Fangping.
In the Tang Dynasty (618-906 A.D.), Fengdu became more famous as the home of the dead, and became the place behind the famous Taoists. It was at this time that Fengdu was the residence of king of darkness, or the king of Yin.
After the completion of the Three Gorges Dam, the relatively low-lying areas of Fengdu city have been sleeping forever. Now, through the Yangtze River, tourists can get in and out of Fengdu ghost city more conveniently. The superstructure of the temple has become a famous tourist attraction. It is full of sculptures of ghosts and monsters depicting their torment of the dead. Among the numerous Taoist temples and shrines, you can also find the stone statue the ghost king. This is the world's largest sculpture made from a single piece of rock, setting a Guinness world record.
2. Kayakoy
Kayakoi, an abandoned ancient village in southwest Turkey, is near the Toros mountains. More than 20000 Greeks once lived here. Almost a century ago, political disputes left kayakoe in ruins. After the first World War, the Ottoman Empire split and Greece and Turkey fell into a land war. The second Greek Turkish war ended with the signing of a mandatory population exchange agreement. More than 200000 people and Greeks were forced to leave their homes.
This was originally called camerasus, an ancient city on which cayakoi was built. Now it's one of the attractions in fitschier. )The village was built in the 18th century. Now the houses here are roofless, weathered and left unattended. The villagers who had been at peace with their Muslim neighbors were sent back to war-torn Greece after the second Greek Turkish war. They had to start again in Greece to avoid persecution that had nothing to do with themselves.
Today, the village's remaining 350 houses and two Orthodox churches look rather dilapidated. They prove that human actions are so short-lived and fragile in the face of nature. A museum that records the history of the village is the only one left in kayakoe.
3. Sathorn unique skyscraper
In the early 1990s, Thailand was at the peak of its history. During this period, Bangkok began to show off its steady development in the form of high-rise buildings. But the 1997 Asian financial crisis brought an abrupt end to Thailand's economic success. Assets evaporated almost overnight, and plans to build shaton's "Ghost Tower" abruptly ended months before completion.
The 49 story residential building stands alone, enjoying Bangkok's magnificent urban scenery and Mekong River scenery. It is not allowed and dangerous to enter the unfinished building, because many floors may collapse if only touched lightly. Now, Thailand's economy has recovered, and there are many other skyscrapers. But Sutton's future is still uncertain, because it will cost more to finish than to build a new skyscraper. In fact, it's more famous for being haunted by rumors.
4. Covasna inclined plane
Kowasna is located in the border area between the former Austro Hungarian Empire and the Principality of Romania. This small town is an important forestry center and timber producing area. In 1890, the railway network was fully completed, connecting kowasna with the rest of the country.
Inside the railway network, people also designed and invented the roller skating system. This system allows a carriage full of wood to go down the hill, while another empty car is pulled up to the top of the hill. This process depends only on gravity. In the middle, the tracks diverge, causing freight cars to diverge from each other, and then the tracks converge. Although this extraordinary design is simple, it reflects the flash of human wisdom, which is rare at that time. This design can only be found in a few places in the world.
Unfortunately, a violent storm swept through the area in 1995, knocking down most of the trees and destroying the associated timber industry. The local government and some wealthy investors have discussed revitalizing the railway network and the inclined plane system for tourism development. But all of this is still not going on, which is largely due to the 2008 economic crisis.
5. North brother Island
The island, overlooking the East River and miles from LaGuardia Airport, was once terrifying. New Yorkers have now completely forgotten it. The riverside hospital in New York City was on the island from the 1880s to the 1930s. Many people with smallpox, scarlet fever and leprosy have made their last leg in Riverside hospitals. Mary Mellon, the infamous typhoid patient, was born in Ireland in 1869 and immigrated to the United States at the age of 15. At first, she worked as a maid. Later, she found that she had great cooking skills, so she changed to be a cook, earning a lot more than a maid's salary every month. Mary has been in good health, but she carries typhoid. Later, Mary infected many people one after another, and finally was isolated in an infectious ward on an island called "northern brother island" near New York. )He died on the island in 1938. Before its collapse in 1963, Riverside hospital was a rehabilitation center for young drug addicts.
Now, North brother island is a nature reserve. The riverside hospital still exists, but the interior is just empty with its original shape. The windows were broken, the walls were lacquered, and some roofs collapsed. In 2008, as an architect and photographer, Christopher Payne recorded the island's current situation, and the northern brothers island has come back to people's view.
6. Teufelsberg
On the top of devil mountain, the highest mountain in West Berlin, stands the ruins of the cold war. It was a listening station that had been used to monitor all the radios sent and received in Soviet controlled East Berlin. The devil mountain itself was built in 1963 with the remains of World War II. It was originally a Nazi military academy that the Allies failed to destroy. They decided to bury it under the wreckage and debris of a 120 meter high house, so it was later called Devil mountain.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the wall covered with graffiti has changed hands several times. One of the owners, David Lynch, had planned to turn it into a meditation school, but the plan was blocked by the Berlin municipal authorities. There are also plans for luxury hotels, restaurants or spy museums, but none of these are likely to happen in the short term. That's a good thing for Kristopher McLaren, who used to work in devil's mountain, because he's organizing a weekend tour of devil's mountain for spy enthusiasts.
7. Plymouth
Montserrat, where Plymouth is located, was first discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493. The 40 square mile island in the Caribbean Sea is expanding every day. That's good for a small town, but that's why the southern part of the island is abandoned.
The once silent sufriere volcano erupted twice in 1995 and 1997, covering Plymouth and its surrounding areas with a layer of 4.6 feet thick (about 1.4 meters). As hard as concrete, the cooling ash debris has permanently engulfed most of Plymouth's buildings, streets and vehicles, just like the ancient city of Pompeii. Fortunately, the vast majority of the people were evacuated safely to the northern part of the island. However, Plymouth's tourism economy has really disappeared. After the eruption of the volcano, there is no sign of recovery in the near future.
8. Chateau Miranda
Miranda castle is located in southern Belgium, near the French border. This neogothic Castle used to be beautiful, but now it is a ruin. During the period of the French Revolution, the active political family of the liedkelke Beaufort had to leave their castle and take refuge in a nearby farm. As soon as the storm subsided, they were ready to make a comeback and began building Miranda castle in 1866.
As time went on, the tranquility was maintained until the end of World War II. The German army occupied the area in the bulge campaign. From the end of the war to the 1980s, the Belgian national railway company used Miranda castle as a summer resort for orphans. As the cost of maintaining the castle rose, it was completely abandoned in 1991. Four years later, a fire destroyed part of the castle's roof, and the lidkelke BOFT family took away valuable items from the castle, removed the hardwood floors and Italian marble and placed them in another castle in Italy.
Today, even if there are several attempts to buy the castle and turn it into a hotel, the castle is still empty. The lidkelk BOFT family even formally offered to demolish the castle. Whatever the outcome, the ruins of Miranda castle are on its last leg.
9. Holy Land USA
In 1958, John Greco, from Waterbury, Connecticut, built a Bible themed park out of secondhand materials. Surprisingly, the theme park was very popular in the 1960s and 1970s, attracting more than 40000 visitors each year. The main features include a miniature model of Bethlehem, the birth of Jesus, Jerusalem, the crucifixion, King Herod's palace, a 50 foot stainless steel cross that can be seen from any corner of the garden, as well as many biblical passages carved into stone. In 1984, in order to renovate and expand the park, Mr. Greco decided to temporarily close the park. However, he died two years later, and the park has never been opened again.
10. Abkhazia train station
Close to the Black Sea coast, the region was once a popular destination for Russian elites, including Stalin himself. Today, however, the popularity and economic situation of Abkhazia have gone down sharply. In 1999, Abkhazia declared its independence from Georgia, but there are still disputes over its territory. Economic problems can be seen everywhere, including the gorgeous Sukhumi railway station. But even though it has been abandoned for 20 years, we can still have a glimpse of the life of the upper class in the Soviet Union. The shelves made of mahogany, the beautiful marble columns, and the exquisite plaster decoration are still old and dilapidated.
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