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Ghost towns, empty streets, crumbling ruins and lost empires this book reveals these and other deserted places. Many places featured were once populated and now sit unoccupied, modern day ruins, sitting in decay.
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INDEX
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Page numbers in bold refer to information contained in captions.
Admiralty 57
Afghanistan 27
AIR Studios 197
aircraft, military 39, 57
airports, Mirabel Airport 234–5
Akhurian River 22
Aldwych Station, London, UK 192–5, 192
Alfonso XIII of Spain 132
Amundsen, Roald 34
amusement parks
Nara Dreamland 250–2
Six Flags Jazzland 240–5, 240
Anatolia 40
ancestor worship 20
Aneto, Pyrenees 132
Ani, Turkey/Armenia 22–4, 22
Antarctica 30–5, 120, 121
anti-aircraft forts 56–8, 56, 58
Apo (Incan deity) 13
Arabs 10–11
Aragon 129
Aragón river 132
Archipélitude Museum 115
Arctic 222, 225
Argentina 17, 94, 166–9
Argyll, Scotland 50
Armenia 22–4
Arpa River 24
as-Salam Palace, Iraq 231
asbestos
blue 122–5, 122
white 125
asbestosis 125
Asia, Central 22
Asian Financial Crisis 1997 216
asylums
Larundel Asylum 226–9, 226
Poveglia 126–7, 127
Atacama, South America 94, 97
Athens Olympic Games 2004 236–7
Atlanta, Georgia, USA 236
Atlantic Ocean 47, 116–21
Atlantic Wall (coastal fortification) 39
atomic weapons 148
Australia 48, 122–5, 226–9
Azerbaijan 22
Baghdad 22, 231
Bagratuni dynasty 22, 25
Balaklava, Crimea 212–14
Balaklava, battle of 212
Balaklava Bay, Crimea 213
Balkan mountains 160
Bangkok, Thailand 216–19
Bangladesh 44, 108–10
Bardot, Brigitte 140
Barentsburg, Svalbard, Norway 225
Basilicata, Italy 106–7
Bates, Paddy Roy 58
Bay of Bengal 109
Bay of Biscay 129
Beardmore Glacier 34
Béarn, France 129
Bedouin people 10–11
Beelitz Sanatorium, Brandenburg, Germany 204–9, 204, 206, 209
Badehaus (bathhouse) 207
Belarus 174
Berlin, Germany 72
Berlin Wall 207
Bible 8, 48
see also Book of Exodus
Bingham, Hiram, III 17
Black Death 126–7
Black Sea 211, 212
Black Sea Fleet (Soviet) 212
Blackwater River 78
Blackwater Shaft, Waiuta 78, 81
Blitz 64
Bocaccio, Giovanni 126
Bodey, William S. 60
Bodie, California 60–3, 60
Bogotá, Colombia 201
Bogotá River 201
Bokor Hill Station, Cambodia 52–4
Bolivia 17, 94
Book of Exodus 47
Boreray, Hebrides, Scotland 47
Bosch, Carl 97
Bosphorus Strait 212
Bostanlar valley 22
Bovington, UK 64
Bowers, Henry Robertson 34
Brades, Montserrat 198
Brandenburg Gate, Berlin 72
Brazil 94, 125
Britain 68, 142
see also Scotland; United Kingdom
British Army 64–5
British Empire 57
Buenos Aires, Argentina 168
Bulgaria 160–5, 174
Bulgarian Communist Party 162
Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig 10
Burgon, John William 10
Burton, Richard 140...
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Petra
- Machu Picchu
- Easter Island
- Ani
- Mandu
- Ross Island
- Stelling van Amsterdam
- Kayaköy
- Sonargaon
- St Kilda
- Bokor Hill Station
- Red Sands Sea Forts
- Bodie
- Tyneham
- Oradour-sur-Glane
- Giersdorf Church
- Graun
- Waiuta
- Kolmanskop
- Detroit
- Lion City
- Humberstone & Santa Laura
- Chinguetti
- North Brother Island
- Craco
- Chittagong
- L’Île-aux-Marins
- Leith Harbour & Grytviken
- Wittenoom
- Poveglia
- Canfranc Station
- Eastern State Penitentiary
- Varosha
- Hashima Island
- Tatooine
- Sanzhi UFO Houses
- Millennium Mills
- Buzludzha Monument
- Epecuén
- Pripyat
- Centralia
- Young Pioneer Camp
- Juragua
- Rosario Island Villas
- London Underground Stations
- Plymouth
- Hotel del Salto
- Beelitz Sanatorium
- Objekt 825
- Sathorn Unique
- Macassar Beach Pavilion
- Pyramiden
- Larundel Asylum
- Saddam’s Palaces
- Mirabel Airport
- Athens Olympic Venues
- Six Flags Jazzland
- Tampico
- Nara Dreamland
- Kangbashi New Area
- Index
- About the Publisher