Tag: Coastal
87 cursed places found
Bali bombing memorial
The main memorial site in Kuta, Bali, commemorating the terrorist bombing attacks of October 2002 which killed over 200 people, mostly tourists,...
Big Splash, Singapore
Big Splash was a waterpark located at East Coast Park in Singapore that operated between 1977 and 2006.
Lai Chi Kok Amusement Park
was an amusement park on the west shore of Lai Chi Kok Bay in Lai Chi Kok, Hong Kong.
Flamingo
is the southernmost headquarters of Everglades National Park, in Monroe County, Florida, United States.
Qullissat
(old spelling: Qutdligssat) is a former settlement in the Qeqertalik municipality, located on the northeast coast of Disko Island on the west coast of...
Banning
Delaware, USA was a stop in Cedar Creek Hundred on the now defunct Queen Anne's Railroad line between Ellendale and Greenwood positioned at the NE corner...
Sunnyside Amusement Park
(also known as Sunnyside Beach Park) was a popular amusement park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that ran from 1922 to 1955, demolished in 1955 to make way...
Badbea
(pronounced bad-bay) is a former clearance village perched on the steep slopes above the cliff tops of Berriedale on the east coast of Caithness,...
Ilha dos Tigres
And absolutely unique and extremely atmospheric place, and the crown jewel in Angola βs dark-tourism portfolio β the only problem is that it is very...
Wonderland City
was an amusement park located at Tamarama Beach in Sydney, Australia, opened on 1st December 1906 and closed in 1911.
Formosa Fun Coast
(Chinese: ε «δ»ζ΅·ε²Έ; pinyin: BΔxiΔn HΗi'Γ n, also known as ε «δ»ζ¨ε; BΔxiΔn LΓ¨yuΓ‘n; 'Eight Immortals Paradise" or less literally "Myriad immortals paradise') was a...
Apua
Κ»Δpua was an ancient village in the Puna district on the southern coast of the Island of HawaiΚ»i in the Hawaiian Islands.
Carter's Million Dollar Pier
Former pier in Miami Beach, Florida. Carter's Million Dollar Pier is a notable abandoned site in Miami Beach, United States, known for its unusual...
Beachy Head
England A chalk headland on the south coast of Great Britain that is notorious as the country's foremost suicide cliff.
Hotel Tokoen
Tokoen is situated on the Japan Sea coast of Tottori Prefecture, approximately seventy-five kilometers east of Izumo, in the hot-springs resort town of...
Heimaey
Heimaey is the name of the largest and only inhabited island of the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago ("Westman Islands" in English) just off the south coast of...
Attalia
() is an extinct town in Walla Walla County, Washington, United States. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
A harbour town on the east coast of Nova Scotia, Canada , whose maritime heritage includes a couple of particularly dark ones.
D-Day sites in Normandy
D-Day museums and memorials in Normandy The β D-Day β landings of Operation Overload, i.e.
La Pyramide
is a high-rise building located in the Plateau area of Abidjan, the largest city in Ivory Coast.
Vinh Moc tunnels, Vietnam
Vinh Moc tunnels, Central Vietnam Another network of tunnels and underground dug-outs near the DMZ , in Central Vietnam .
House in Corrubedo
At some point between the estuaries of Arosa and Noya, in A CoruΓ±a, and next to the Corrubedo lighthouse, is found the town of the same name, sheltered by...
The Municipal Building
This article is part of the Hidden Architecture Series βTentative dβΓpuisementβ , where we explore the practice of an architectural criticism without...
Norton House
The first work of Frank Gehry -before the Guggenheim effect and his later work β had different and simultaneous work strategies.
Zeus – Proposal for Waterfront Pineta
Our proposal consists of a coherent spatial and architectural strategy that enables the development to be built in stages.
Nuugaatsiaq
(old spelling: NΓ»gΓ’tsiaq) is a now abandoned settlement in the Avannaata municipality, in northwestern Greenland, located on an island off the southern...
Murmansk
A city in the Arctic north-west of Russia , close to the Barents Sea and the easternmost part of Norway .
USAF Museum Dayton
USAF Museum with the "Bockscar" A huge museum in Dayton, Ohio, of (mostly) US military aircraft, the star piece of which, from a dark perspective, has to...
Roq et Rob
These studies are contemporary with those of the Sainte-Baume.
Yeni-Kale
(Ukrainian: ΠΠ½Ρ-ΠΠ°Π»Π΅; Russian: ΠΠ½ΠΈΠΊΠ°Π»Π΅; Turkish: Yenikale; Crimean Tatar: YeΓ±i Qale, also spelled as Yenikale and Eni-Kale and Yeni-Kaleh or YΓ©ni-Kaleb)...
Baucau
& north-east East Timor This area was actually the first one I headed for on my 8-day round trip of East Timor in August 2014.
A Roamers Retreat: Re-activating Conisbrough Viaduct
We wanted to feature the project Re-activating Conisbrough Viaduct by Ryan Hinson where he proposes a critical approach to the reuse of an obsolete...
Bergen
Norway 's "second city" (after the capital Oslo ) and a famously beautiful one too, so that no comprehensive trip to the country can afford to do without...
Snyder House
Built as a personal residence for John Snyder, the Chief Executive of the Pressed Steel Car Company which manufactured Goldberg's Unicel freightcars and...
Montebello Islands
The site in Australia where the first British atomic bomb was detonated on 3 October 1952, making the UK the third country to enter the circle of nuclear...
Dyea
( dye-EE) is a ghost town in the U.S. state of Alaska. A few people live on individual small homesteads in the valley; however, it is largely abandoned.
Sakurajima volcano, Kagoshima
One of Japan 's most active volcanoes β right opposite Kagoshima, the southernmost city on the southern mainland island of Kyushu.
OBSCURED BY CLOUDS: Hotel Palace, Haludovo
This article is part of Obscured by Clouds, a personal project curated by Biljana JanjuΕ‘eviΔ about architectural heritage of Balkans region, with emphasis...
Batumi
A city on the Black Sea in Georgia , near the border with Turkey .
Ribeiro House
Fernando TΓ‘vora receives an apparently minor commission, a holiday home in a pine forest located somewhere between the Atlantic coast north of Porto and...
Goma, DRC
A city in Eastern Congo (DRC) on Lake Kivu near the border with Rwanda .
Tsunami monument in Yala National Park, Sri Lanka
Tsunami Memorial in Yala National Park Yala National Park, rather than a decidedly dark place, is actually Sri Lanka 's premier wildlife spotting area,...
Anderson's Cove
is a former community on the south coast of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
La GΓΌera
(Arabic: Ψ§ΩΪ―ΩΩΨ±Ψ©, Hassaniyya pronunciation: [ΛΙl.ΙgwΓ€yrΙ]; also known as La AgΓΌera, Lagouira, El Gouera) is a ghost town on the Atlantic coast at the...
Skede memorial
Skede Holocaust memorial This lonely spot north of the twin towns of Karosta and Liepaja on the Baltic coast of Latvia was the site of massacres...
Salinger House
This article is part of Ungreen, a series curated by Hidden Architecture, where we attempt to create a resistance against some of the dogmas assimilated...
White Island
New Zealand 's only marine volcano. i.e. an island, about 30 miles (50 km) off Whakatane on the eastern coast of the "mainland" of North Island.
Spirit Catcher
The Sculpture Bird (also called Dream Catcher, Spirit Catcher) is a sculpture situated on the shore of Kempenfelt Bay in Barrie, Ontario, Canada.
Rainbow Warrior wreck
The story sounded too James-Bondsy to be believable at the time but it really happened: in 1985, the French were preparing for nuclear testing at their...
Holidays House at Sykia
This small holiday home in SykiΓ‘, a few kilometres from XilΓ³kastro, along the road between Corinth and Patras, is among the works by Konstantinidis that...
Gruinard Island Scotland
Gruinard Island, Scotland A small island off Scotland's north-western coast, Great Britain 's wildest and least inhabited corner.
La Parra
β La Casaβ or βLa Parraβ is situated in the highest part of the plot and descends (from west to east) in terraces, adapting topographically to the terrain...
Liepaja
A town on the Baltic coast of Latvia . It is also a significant sea port.
Fraser Residence
Deeply influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra and Japanese design, Ron Thom was one of the most significant talents to emerge from the postwar...
Dounreay exhibition, Thurso
Dounreay exhibition at Caithness Horizons, Thurso UPDATE October 2021: apparently this place is set to reopen in November under a new name: "North Coast...
Les Arcs Ski Resort
This article is part of β [SΓ] β, a personal project curatedby Marta LΓ³pez GarcΓa where she wills to shed light on a twice silenced reality.
Atlantic Wall
This term, an anglicization of the German βAtlantikwallβ (which actually means βdamβ rather than βwallβ), is collectively applied to all those coastal...
GarabogazkΓΆl
One of the most forlorn places on Earth.
Club MediterranΓ©e
The Club MediterranΓ©e decided to build its camps in Israel in 1961.
Whitby, North Yorkshire
A small picturesque town on the east coast of Great Britain that is famous not least for being the place where Dracula landed in England in Bram Stoker's...
Men at Sea
or Man meets the sea (Danish: Mennesket ved Havet) is a 9-metre (30 feet) tall white monument of four seated males, located west of Esbjerg next to...
Kenji monument and cave, Okinawa
A monument for the boys of Okinawa Normal School who served (and mostly died) in the Battle of Okinawa , as part of the "Blood and Iron" Corps.
Balaklava
UPDATE 2018: Well, Russian-annexed Crimea, and hence Balaklava, are now definitely part of Russia again.
Philadelphia
A city on the East Coast of the USA which calls itself the "city of brotherly love" (after the literal translation of the Greek roots in its name) and was...
Grand Buddha at Ling Shan
The Grand Buddha (simplified Chinese: η΅ε±±ε€§δ½; traditional Chinese: ι山倧δ½; pinyin: LΓngshΔn DΓ FΓ³) is located on the north shore of Lake Tai, near Wuxi,...
Angkor Wat Temple
Angkor Wat is a spectacular temple in central Cambodia, built by the vanished Khmer empire.
Macclesfield railway station
serves the Cheshire market town of Macclesfield, England. It lies on the Stafford to Manchester branch of the West Coast Main Line.
Karl Marx Beach
This is a ship cemetery on the coast of Angola just north of the capital Luanda.
Dead Sea and Masada
The Dead Sea & Masada, Israel A typical tourist excursion in Israel (and Jordania) which also has its rather dark sides. Why?
U-434 submarine
Hamburg A Russian submarine, used by the Soviet navy during the Cold War on spying missions, now permanently moored as a floating museum in the harbour of...
Binning House
Of the many renowned early Modern houses on the West Coast of Canada, one of the earliest and most influential is the Binning Residence in West Vancouver.
Penn Station
βDonβt Amputate-Renovate' is a series curated by Hidden Architecture where we conduct a work of recovering and archiving of buildings demolished in New...
Narvik
A town in northern Norway with a short but quite significant historical record, including that of having been one of the most contested places in WWII ,...
Linear City
βA frame in which all the functions of a city or part of a city are housed. It has been made possible by present day technology.
La Ciudad de las Columnas (I)
This article is part of the Hidden Architecture series βA Hard Rainβs A-Gonna Fallβ , where we will try to publish and bring back to current days...
Atarim Square
(also Namir Square) is a complex of buildings and a public square in Tel Aviv, Israel, designed by architect Yaakov Rechter.
Lynmouth, Devon, England
Lynmouth A small harbour village on the north coast of Devon, Great Britain , which was the scene of a catastrophic flash flood in August 1952.
Chacabuco
One of northern Chile 's countless former nitrate mining ghost towns , which, in addition to that fact alone, earns a special place on the dark tourism...
Fortaleza San Felipe
A minor dark site in the city of Puerto Plata on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic .
Can Geroni
Architect Erik Christian Sorensen designed a simple house for the Hasselbalchs between 1963 and 1964.
Fremantle Prison
Fremantle is a city in Western Australia just to the south of the state capital Perth and actually part of the larger Perth municipality.
Blockhaus dβΓperlecques
Le Blockhaus dβΓperlecques - This bunker and open-air museum was originally constructed as one of the V-weapons bases by Nazi Germany in the Pas-de-Calais...
Kinmen
UPDATE: Not so long ago I undertook an extensive trip to Taiwan during which I also spent three days on Kinmen and explored it pretty much exhaustively.
Dunkirk 1940 Museum
A small, old-fashioned museum about (mainly) the exceptional, large-scale evacuation operation which rescued some 340,000 British and French soldiers who...
Darwin
Darwin is the capital of the Northern Territory (NT), one of the constituent parts (but not a βstateβ) of the federation of Australia .
Rohwer
camp and museum - Rohwer in Arkansas, USA , was one of the ten βWar Relocation Centersβ, de facto concentration camps for Japanese Americans from the West...
Venice
(at best when cruise ships are in town) - One of the most celebrated and most popular tourist destinations in the world (and very much suffering from...