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Balestrino, a town and municipality in Liguria whose old town was abandoned in 1953. Bussana Vecchia is a town in Liguria that was abandoned following an earthquake in 1887. Campomaggiore Vecchio was a town in Potenza that was destroyed by an avalanche in 1885. The modern town of Campomaggiore has replaced it. [71] [72]
Throughout human history, cities have been abandoned or reclaimed by nature. Sometimes people rediscover these cities using technology or by a stroke of luck. These five cities, buried under rock ...
Michał Dziekański / 500px Prime / Getty Images CC. Pripyat, Ukraine: After. Pripyat is one of the world's best-known ghost towns. People fled in such haste that the city looks frozen in time ...
Troy was a city located in northwest Anatolia in what is now Turkey. It is best known for being the focus of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer. Repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt, the city slowly declined and was abandoned in the Byzantine era. Buried by ...
Large room at the abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Carol M. Highsmith (archive of the Library of Congress [1]) Detroit's formerly abandoned Michigan Central Station was a frequent subject of photographers, and a backdrop for movie-makers Abandoned power plant in Budapest, Hungary Block 65 on Hashima Island, Japan Ruined ski station, built for the 1984 Winter ...
The team mapped the two cities in 2022, making 22 flights with a drone equipped with LiDAR. The endeavor marked the first time researchers have used the technology in the region, according to the ...
Kolmanskop (Afrikaans for "Coleman's peak", German: Kolmannskuppe) is a ghost town in the Namib in southern Namibia, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) inland from the port town of Lüderitz. It was named after a transport driver named Johnny Coleman who, during a sand storm, abandoned his ox wagon on a small incline opposite the settlement. [1]
Abandoned cities offer an insight into a world without people