Goldfield Hotel: a step back into Nevada History
Goldfield, Nevada, is one of those legendary towns that exploded during the gold boom of the early 1900s, only to be deserted almost completely in a matter of years. Millions […]
International Car Forest of the Last Church~
The International Car Forest of the Last Church is the unusual dream project of two Nevada artists. Some artists work with paint, others with clay, marble or stone. Chad Sorg’s […]
Farina: South Australian ghost town
Lost in the vast land of outback South Australia, 650 kilometres (400 miles) to the north of Adelaide on the edge of the desert and along the old route of […]
Akureyri Heart-Shaped Traffic Lights
All we know that Icelandic winters can be very cold. With six months of darkness and icy storms that close roads and bridges, much of the country becomes inaccessible from […]
The entrance of Bockenheimer Warte Subway Station of Frankfurt: a tram crashing into the sidewalk!
Try to imagine a scene in a Marvel movie in which the Hulk has picked up a tram car and rammed it into the sidewalk. That’s kind of what the […]
McBarge: The floating restaurant that McDonald’s unveiled at the Expo 1986.
Before the 2010 winter olympics, Expo ‘86 was the biggest event Vancouver had ever hosted. Held to celebrate the city’s centennial, this world’s fair is often credited as launching the […]
A revolutionary war Sugar House prison window in downtown Manhattan
Hidden away on a wall of the New York City Police Department Headquarters there is a mysterious window. It is embedded in the wall, and made of an ancient brick […]
The cyanometer that measure the blueness of the sky in Ljubljana centre
Cyanometers have been color-coding the sky since the late 18th century, however Martin Bricelj Baraga’s sculpture adds a really modern twist. Located in the center of Ljubljana, Slovenia, the monolithic […]
Legends and origins of “O’ Munaciello”, the Neapolitan sprite.
A Neapolitan proverb reads: “O munaciello: a chi arricchisce e a chi appezzentisce“, which means something like “The munaciello or enriches or sends into poverty“. The munaciello, literally “little monk” […]
Former Sangritana railway: the abandoned station of Crocetta – Castel Frentano.
The former station of Crocetta was a railway station located on the Sangritana railway, and point of origin of the route to Ortona. This served the inhabited center of Crocetta, […]
Szimpla Kert: Budapest ruin pub that offer peep into the past.
Try to imagine: on a chilly night, young party-goers gather inside a two-storey former factory in the heart of Budapest’s entertainment district, where old computer monitors displaying psychedelic patterns line […]
Navje, Ljubljana: can a Cemetery be also a park?
As macabre as it sounds, this cemetery is actually a really nice place to visit. Just over the railroad tracks from the historic center of Ljubljana, Slovenia, this beatiful and […]
The story of the almost disappeared town of Thurmond, West Virginia
On the shore of New River Gorge, in West Virginia, United States, lies the almost abandoned city of Thurmond. “Almost” because, the 2010 census, confirmed that five people still live […]
Idroscalo of Pavia: a piece of history of the city abandoned on the Ticino river.
On the Ticino river, south of the covered bridge, which was one of Pavia’s most symbolic monuments, there is a now abandoned structure, left to decay. It is the Idroscalo […]
Pavia’s Covered Bridge and the pact with the devil
The Covered Bridge on the Ticino river represents one of Pavia’s most symbolic monuments. It connect the historical centre of the city to the area known as Borgo Ticino, a […]
Monumental Kitty of Detroit, Michigan~
Although it may seem strange, one of Detroit’s most beloved felines isn’t curled up on a windowsill or lazing on on the knees of some more or less unlikely cat […]
