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Nazca Lines. Nazca, Peru These giant ancient pieces of line art — of which, according to National Geographic, there are "over 800 straight lines, 300 geometric figures, and 70 animal and plant ...
jochen_ac, flickr Travelers looking for a getaway from the normal getaway should skip the sandy beaches to walk amid silent relics in Namibia, Chernobyl or an abandoned California gold mining town.
Across the planet, there are locations and monuments left abandoned. Once time and corrosion have taken hold, entire towns are left in ghostly shells of their former selves.
Abandoned buildings and structures in the United States (4 C, 6 P) Urban exploration (3 C, 27 P) Pages in category "Abandoned buildings and structures"
These places are tiny islands, the driest part of large deserts, very high mountains, and ice caps. The only other areas which are completely free of people are areas set aside by law such as strict nature reserves, sacred mountains, bombing ranges, and exclusion zones.
In the 1970s, Saint Martin of the Tigers was cut off from the mainland by the rising sea levels, and its water supply line was severed; both Tigres and Foz do Cunene were subsequently abandoned. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The island, bound by the South Atlantic Ocean and the Tigres Strait , lies in a zone that is ideally suited for ecological projects. [ 3 ]
Not all ghost towns are from the Old West, and the reasons vary why a popular tourist destination might become abandoned. Here are 16 from Detroit to Taiwan.
Some locations on free, publicly viewable satellite map services have such issues due to having been intentionally digitally obscured or blurred for various reasons of this. [1] For example, Westchester County, New York asked Google to blur potential terrorism targets (such as an amusement park, a beach, and parking lots) from its satellite ...