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Richard Happer. Abandoned Places: 60 stories of places where time stopped
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CONTENTS
PETRA
The rose-red city half as old as time
The wanderers settle down
Water management
The rock shakes
The city lives again
Exploring the site
The secrets that sleep on
MACHU PICCHU
The palace in the peaks
Mountain-worship rituals
The end of an ancient empire
No men for maintenance
‘Indiana’ Bingham
The story in the stones
EASTER ISLAND
Where did the sculptors go?
Brave new world
Images of the dead
A hard lesson to learn
ANI
The medieval megacity
The city of 1001 churches
Trophy of the empire builders
Lost and found
The city’s future survival
MANDU
Capital of kings
The Jahaz Mahal
Keeping cool
Abandonment
ROSS ISLAND
Antarctic basecamp, 1911
Scott’s sensational journey
The push for the pole
‘The worst has happened’
Frozen in time
Shackleton’s hut
The legends live on
STELLING VAN AMSTERDAM
State of the military art
War on the doorstep
The first setback
Completion and redundancy
A city wall of water and guns
KAYAKÖY
Peace among the ruins
Trading places
The spiritual atmosphere amid the stones
SONARGAON
The town of many empires
Left behind in a new age
ST KILDA
The island on the edge of the world
The westernmost isle
A communal way of life
Oppressed by religion
First contact with the wider world
Exploring today
BOKOR HILL STATION
Ghosts on the mountaintop
The cool retreat in the hills
The empire crumbles
RED SANDS SEA FORTS
Stalkers of the sea
Innovation in offshore defence
Ruling the airwaves
The Principality of Sealand
Red Sands today
BODIE
Boom and bust in the wild, wild West
The stage is still set
TYNEHAM
Land of the army
Rehearsing an invasion
For the good of the country
You can never go back
Relic of resistance
ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE
Carnage in a country village
The problem of the Resistance
The surprise in Normandy
The massacre
Aftermath
Standing trial
The crumbling memorial
GIERSDORF CHURCH
Hallowed be thy name
A more famous brother
GRAUN
No man is an island
WAIUTA
Gold in the wilderness
Life at the quartz face
Trouble underground
Waiuta today
KOLMANSKOP
The city born of sand
Diamonds in the desert
Home far from home
The conflict and the diamonds
The sands of time
DETROIT
The rusting of motor city
Detroit gets into gear . .
. . . and goes in reverse
Detroit’s rotting core
Michigan Central Station
The Michigan Building
Detroit’s future
LION CITY
The city that was sacrificed
Sleeping in the deep
HUMBERSTONE & SANTA LAURA
Land of white gold
Synthetic nitrates
The sites today
Pinochet’s prison camps
CHINGUETTI
The cultural oasis
The Oxford of the desert
Volumes of wisdom
The ever-marching sands
NORTH BROTHER ISLAND
A walk on the wild side
Quarantine island
Banished to die alone
A change for the better
A glimpse into the past – or future?
CRACO
The ruined crown
Crushed underfoot
The enemy beneath
Exploring Craco today
CHITTAGONG
Breakers on the beach
Beached and broken
Braving death for a few dollars a day
L’ÎLE-AUX-MARINS
Island life – French style
Between a rock and a hard place
Luxury across the water
Lives of the fisher-folk
Windswept wonderland
LEITH HARBOUR & GRYTVIKEN
Life and death in a frozen ocean
The business of death
The world’s most remote industrial centre
The slaughter dies off
South Georgia today
WITTENOOM
The most dangerous town in the world
The blue-rock boom
The danger of denial
Dust to dust
Exploring today
The deaths go on
POVEGLIA
On beauty’s doorstep
Island of sadness and horror
The pits beneath the green
Off limits, then and now
CANFRANC STATION
Death of a dream
Rails across the border
Crossing the tracks
The marvel in the mountains
Struggling to survive
Post-war decline
The station today
EASTERN STATE PENITENTIARY
The monstrous model prison
Crime, punishment and rehabilitation
The ideals are compromised
Most haunted
VAROSHA
Paradise in peril
The colonial corner of the ‘Med’
Politics behind the palm trees
The 1974 coup and Turkish invasion
No-man’s-land
The resort today
HASHIMA ISLAND
The gateway to hell
A symbol of Japan’s rapid industrialization
Life on Hell Island
The arrival of the atomic age
Day to day living
The coal fires die out
TATOOINE
Alien life on Earth
New developments on Tatooine
A planet rediscovered online
SANZHI UFO HOUSES
Space age holidays are here
Life after death
MILLENNIUM MILLS
A building out of time
A dock worthy of a world empire
A bang ends the boom
A rotting shell by the river
The machines stop turning
BUZLUDZHA MONUMENT
‘ON YOUR FEET DESPISED COMRADES ON YOUR FEET YOU SLAVES OF LABOUR! DOWNTRODDEN AND HUMILIATED STAND UP AGAINST THE ENEMY!’
Creating a living monument
Scion of Socialism
The power of wind and water
An array of socialist art
Buzludzha’s future
EPECUÉN
The town that drowned
A change in the weather
Sunk and forgotten
PRIPYAT
The second the clocks stopped in Ukraine
The accident
Fuelling the fire
The evacuation
Cleaning up the mess
Pripyat, the dark tourist Mecca
CENTRALIA
The town with the burning streets
A town built on coal
No smoke without fire
Life is snuffed out
YOUNG PIONEER CAMP
Scouts of the Soviet Union
Young Pioneers of communism
Solemn promise of a pioneer of the Soviet Union
The fun starts here
The holidays are over
JURAGUA
Island with an energy crisis
Swapping partners
America’s nuclear neighbour
Awaiting the big switch on
ROSARIO ISLAND VILLAS
Mountains of money
Playground of the players
The cost of his success
Decay in paradise
LONDON UNDERGROUND STATIONS
The end of the line
Going underground – for a little way
Stations in the shadows
PLYMOUTH
The emerald of the Empire
Glamour beneath the palms
Live by the sword, die by the sword
A capital city obliterated
Exploring today
HOTEL DEL SALTO
Crumbling on a clifftop
Rooms with a view
Rebirth as a museum
BEELITZ SANATORIUM
A most beautiful place to die
Sanatorium supreme
History comes to stay
A Russian hospital in Germany
The Badehaus
Beelitz today
OBJEKT 825
Battleground of empires
Selection as a Soviet base
The secret mountain
Post-Cold War cobwebs
The future of Objekt 825
SATHORN UNIQUE
The ghost in the heart of the city
Symbol of a crash
MACASSAR BEACH PAVILION
The pavilion in paradise
Season of the sands
PYRAMIDEN
Mining coal at the ends of the earth
A Soviet foot in the West
The exodus
Pyramiden today and half a millennium hence
LARUNDEL ASYLUM
Scared by shadows of the past
Treating the untreatable
An unsettling place to visit
Ghosts in the shell
SADDAM’S PALACES
Behind a dictator’s closed doors
Pick of the palaces
Who would live in a house like this?
MIRABEL AIRPORT
Montreal takes off
Thinking big
The airport’s wings are clipped
Unclaimed baggage
ATHENS OLYMPICS
Fleeting dreams of glory
The Games come home
SIX FLAGS JAZZLAND
The deadliest summer
The perfect storm
The city as sitting duck
‘The storm that most of us have long feared’
Adding up the cost of the damage
The park today
TAMPICO
Willingly abandoned
Tampico has been hollowed out by fear
Trading chemicals
NARA DREAMLAND
Japan dreams of Disney
The ride is over
Land of lost theme parks
KANGBASHI NEW AREA
Life in the emptiest town on earth
China’s economic miracle
The land of black gold
New area, new era
The city with everything but people
An empire reborn
INDEX
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