Atlas of Improbable Places : A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners
Atlas of Improbable Places : A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners
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Author(s): Elborough, Travis
ISBN No.: 9780711264014
Pages: 208
Year: 202107
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 18.61
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

DREAM CREATIONS FLEVOPOLDER The region reclaimed from the sea ZHELEZNOGORSK Former closed Soviet city FREE CHRISTIANIA Squatter-city AUROVILLE 1960s utopian city SLAB CITY The squatter metropolis PORTMEIRION The Village ZVYOZDNY GORODOK Star City HEARST CASTLE Randolph Hearst''s Xanadu-esque home DESERTED DESTINATIONS TEUFELSBERG Abandoned U.S. spy station PRESIDIO MODELO Cuba''s most notorious former penitentiary BATTLESHIP ISLAND Deserted mining settlement NO MAN''S LAND FORT A long shunned coastal bulwark THE LOST CITY OF SAN JUAN PARANGARICUTIRO Abandoned after the eruption of 1943 HUMBERSTONE AND SANTA LAURA Redundant saltpetre works WONDERLAND Abandoned Disneyland-style theme park ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE Village left abandoned since the Second World War MUYNAK Drained port WITTENOOM Asbestos-ridden industrial town ANI, KARS Ruins of one-time capital of the Armenian Empire CONCRETE CITY Garden city of the anthracite region VAROSHA Abandoned tourist resort ARCHITECTURAL ODDITIES MARYHILL STONEHENGE Concrete Stonehenge SPIJKENISSE The ''real'' fictional euro bridges KABAYAN The Ibaloi mummy caves SANTURIO MADONNA DELLA CORONA Chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside LONDON BRIDGE, LAKE HAVASU The 1831 London Bridge THE AFRICAN RENAISSANCE MONUMENT Controversial symbol of independence TEN COMMANDMENTS MOUNTAIN The Fields of the Wood FLOATING WORLDS THE PALM 105 An artificial island paradise THE KINGDOM OF REDONDA Uninhabited Caribbean island POVEGLIA ISLAND Former plague quarantine island GREAT BLASKET Uninhabited since 1954 HOLLAND ISLAND Island slowly being eroded by the water PALMERSTON A community formed in its founder''s image WRANGEL ISLAND A place frozen in time MOUNT RORAIMA The Lost World ROSS ISLAND British Indian penal settlement HIRTA The Edge of the World OTHERWORLDLY SPACES AOKIGAHARA The Demon Forest COLMA City of the dead LEAP CASTLE The world''s most haunted residence DARVAZA CRATER Door to Hell THE HILL OF CROSSES Home to some 100,000 crosses THE ISLAND OF DOLLS A terrifying attraction SUBTERRANEAN REALMS THE UNDERGROUND POSTAL RAILWAY Rail Mail COLD WAR SPY TUNNEL The telephone tapping centre BEIJING UNDERGROUND Bunkers to beat the bomb MOOSE JAW Illicit tunnels CINCINNATI Abandoned subway ZKP TAGANSKY, AKA BUNKER 42 Cold War communications bunker PUERTO PRINCESA Subterranean river.


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