Category: Abandoned Places
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Urbex News: Dark Tourism – Favorite ‘Dark Tours’ Around The World
Dark tourism involves travel to places historically associated with death and tragedy. More recently, it was suggested that the concept should also include reasons tourists visit that site, since the site’s attributes alone may not make a visitor a “dark tourist.” The main attraction to dark locations is their historical value rather than their associations with death and…
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Urbex News: COVID-19 Impacted Sites Provide a Haunting Reminder of the Pandemic’s Effects
The urbex movement – “urbex” being a portmanteau of urban and exploration, took off exponentially during the Covid-19 pandemic as adventurers made vlogs out of exploring the diminishing cities from every possible angle. The activity presents various risks, including both physical danger and, if done illegally and/or without permission, the possibility of arrest and punishment but it is a…
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Calico Ghost Town – Yermo, San Bernardino County, California
Profitable mining of silver in Calico ceased in 1896. The town that once gave miners prosperity became a “ghost town,” after the silver mine was depleted but because of colemanite mining lasted until 1929 after which it truly became a ghost town.
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Favourite Ghost Towns- Bodie, California
Favorite Ghost Towns – A ghost town is an abandoned town or city, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads. A town often becomes a “ghost town” because the economic activity that supported it ended for some reason. The ghost town often declines because of natural or human-caused disasters…
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The Tündérhegy/Preisich Sanitorium, Budapest, Hungary – Favourite Urbex Haunts
In Budapest, on one of the secluded streets of the Zugliget, stands the former Preisich Sanatorium, which was built at the turn of the century on the side of the Fairy Hill. The beautiful villa building has been abandoned since 2009
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