Photostory of Alkimia Club: what’s left of a pizza restaurant with live music.
Since three years, but certainly since many and many more, on the trunk road Adriatica SS16, between the italian sea localities of Francavilla and Ortona, there are the remains of […]
Grand Hotel Boarezzo: past, present and future.
This is the Story of the “Grand Hotel of Boarezzo”, also known as “Albergo Piambello”, an hyperbole that starts in the 20s of the last century, wanted and built in […]
Zona del Silencio: the urban legend magnet for curious.
We are lost in the desert in northern Mexico, between the states of Durango, Chihuahua and Coahuila, in an area known as zona del silencio, in english, the “zone of […]
Michelangelo Da Vinci and its planes that stopped flying.
The Michelangelo da Vinci Restaurant Pizzeria is exactly located in Villamarzana just a few minutes from the city center, and was a different and original way to spend the evenings. […]
Porto: Igreja de São Francisco and its Catacombs.
Ancient catacombs, with portals to the dead located in the church’s cellar, form the foundation for this church ghotic in structure and Rococo in decoration. The exterior of the church […]
Dolnì Vitkovice of Ostrava (Cze): once industrial site, now playground of science, technology, and art.
Not even 20 years ago, Ostrava, the third-largest Czech city, was known as the “Czech Republic’s Iron Heart,” especially for this huge industrial plant born in 1830 and now transformed […]
Hashima: the incredible abandoned island discovered by Google Maps Street View.
Not always, with google maps street view, you can only travel through the known places of the world. Sometimes it happens to find something new and unexplored, such as the […]
Anežka Kašpárková, the ninety-year-old artist who decorate the village of Louka in Czech Republic.
In the small Czech village of Louka, in the South Moravian region, a ninety-year-old lady decided to spend its life with a really particular artistic adventure: beautifying all the houses […]
A regular upside down house in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
It seems that in the city of Kasnoyarsk, Russia, the natural attractions were not enough to attract a consistent number of tourists to the sunny and fresh (-18°C stimated in […]
A random walk around the Monumental Cemetery of Milan.
The Monumental Cemetery in Milan is really an open-air museum, since 1866 to today. In this article i don’t want speak about history, because you can safely write on google […]
The terrifying Owlman who terrorizes the poor english urban explorers.
Urban exploration is an hobby, a passion, and for some people, young and not, also an obsession that is becoming increasingly popular thanks to the lot of photographs and videos […]
Why do you need television when you are already in world of fairy tales?…
Have you present the famous german fairy-tale “Hansel and Gretel”, recorded by the Grimm brothers? What happened after they have grown up? This time we tell the story of two […]
And you have ever been inside an old cement plant? Photogallery
Few, almost no information on this place. only that in 2010 the existing cement plant was absorbed by another company, and closed only after two years (we think for the […]
The train’s cemetery of Garbagnate Milanese
Not far from the active rails in the Garbagnate Centro station, of the Trenord station, there are three dead rails. Here entire trains and locomotives, abandoned probably after an accident, […]
MTV, Manifattura tessile del Veneto (textile manufactory of Veneto). Bankruptcy and fire.
Just another sad story of an Italian company, closed for bankruptcy. This is the textile manufactory of Veneto (abbreviated mtv), partially destroyed in a fire in August 2015. In this […]
Aquaria waterpark, just another typical italian story.
The waterpark was founded in Pinarella di Cervia in 1992, with the initiative and totally private investments. Its symbols were the large twisted slides with vivid colors, which drew a […]
Villa Sgaravatti. Jacopo Dondi “Dell’orologio” was living here.
Over the years, this villa was abode of to various astronomers and scientists, and here was living Jacopo Dondi too, a doctor, astronomer and clock-maker from Padua, Italy, remembered today […]
Maglificio Susy, inside the knitwear-factory abandoned since 2004.
This was a place without information. I only know that this is a former knitwear-factory located at the exit of the Boara-Rovigo Nord motorway. The company developed a turnover estimated […]
Mary’s house, home of ghosts and legends
There are lot of stories about this house. Some local old people tells that between April and June could materialize the dress of a little girl drowned in the nearby […]
Ex-Maskó, memories of a discotheque and testimony of who remember.
“A long time ago (it was 2005, NDR), here it was always party.” These are the words of D, a man who remembers well this disco, when it was open, […]
Manzolli, inside a disused agricultural holding.
I know very well that it’s impossible. But I don’t have informations on this place, except that it is an abandoned agricultural holding. Containers are really nice, because they look […]
Chernobyl nuclear power plant: 32 years later
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster began in the early hours of Saturday 26 April 1986 in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. An explosion released large quantities of radioactive contamination into the […]
Postcards from Pripyat, the town nearest to the No.4 reactor of Chernobyl.
Pripyat is the town nearest to the No. 4 reactor, had 49,000 inhabitants, and was founded to house workers from Chernobyl. The name came from the river where sits the […]
Villa Renier, historic villa abode of Ugo Foscolo
It is said that in the nineteenth century Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet, writer and translator and one of the leading writers of neoclassicism and pre-Romanticism, stayed in this villa and wrote here the novel “Ultime lettere a Jacopo Ortis”. Now, after more than 20 years since the death of the elderly landlord, the four heirs were never able to buy the villa.....