Tag: Desert
34 cursed places found
Calico
is a ghost town and former mining town in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Cima
(Spanish for "Summit") is a small unincorporated community in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California, in the United States.
Amboy
is an unincorporated community in San Bernardino County, in California's Mojave Desert, west of Needles and east of Ludlow on historic Route 66.
Ancho
is an unincorporated desert hamlet in Lincoln County, New Mexico, United States. It is located west of the Lincoln National Forest, 2 miles east of U.S.
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...
Absheron peninsula, Azerbaijan
Absheron peninsula to (overall; individually between 1 for Arteshgah, and 8 for Artyom) A semi-desert promontory that pokes out eastwards into the Caspian...
Houari Boumedienne Agricultural Village
The experience that RBTA has gained in the construction of housing developments was called on by the Algerian government, through the agency of France, to...
Trinity
It was here, in the middle of the desert of the White Sands range in southern New Mexico, USA , that the first ever atomic bomb was detonated β in a test...
Lake Dolores Waterpark
is an abandoned waterpark off Interstate 15 in the Mojave Desert in the community of Newberry Springs, California, United States.
Andrews
is a ghost town in Harney County, Oregon, United States. It is located south of Steens Mountain and near the Alvord Desert.
Chuquicamata copper mine
This is a truly extreme attraction in northern Chile : the gigantic open-pit copper mine and adjacent smelter plant at Chuquicamata, in the Atacama...
Barringer Meteor Crater
This site has to be regarded as the quintessential meteorite crater on Earth.
Focsa Building
This article is part of the Hidden Architecture Series βTentative dβΓpuisementβ , where we explore the practice of an architectural criticism without...
Betoota
is a ghost town within the locality of Birdsville, in the Shire of Diamantina, in the Channel Country of Central West Queensland, Australia.
Aral Sea
The Aral Sea Rather: the area that once was the Aral Sea, the fourth largest lake on earth.
Bagh-e Fin Garden
Muslim gardens which have survived into the present: for example, the famous gardens in Granada and Cordoba in Spain, and the lovely gardens in Srinagar,...
Uxmal
This article is part of Infrastructural Urbanism , a series curated by Hidden Architecture where we explore the evolutionary potential over time of...
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...
CΓ³rdoba Bus Station
When I was commissioned to design the Cordoba Bus Station Project, a multitude of memories of my first journeys came to mind.
In Ekker and Reggane
The two nuclear testing grounds that France used in the Sahara desert in Algeria for its first atomic bombs in the 1960s.
Atolia
is a ghost town in the Mojave Desert near Randsburg, in northwestern San Bernardino County, California.
Darvaza flaming gas crater, Turkmenistan
Darvaza gas fire crater, Turkmenistan A crater in the desert β aka "Door to Hell" β full of countless gas fires that have been burning for decades.
La Luz
In 1967, two young developers, Ray Graham III and Didier Raven, chose an equally young Antoine Predock to plan and design the residential community of La...
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Ashgabat (but extra marks on the weirdness scale!) The capital city of Turkmenistan is one of the strangest cities in the world.
Loewy House
The Lowey House consists of two long, narrow rectangles at right angles to each other which surround a pool that passes under one of the sides of the...
NTS - Nevada Test Site
NTS (Nevada Test Site) The military area where the USA conducted the majority of its nuclear tests (though not the first one, which was at Trinity , nor...
Dakar
The capital city of Senegal and one of the hubs of West Africa as a whole.
Shibam
Located on the centre of Yemen, the walled city of Shibam is one of these impossible places and oddities of the Arabic urbanism.
Al-Kindi Plaza
In 1977, the Saudi Government, decided to transfer the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and all foreign diplomatic representations from Jeddah to Riyadh.
International Hotel and Conference Center
In 1966 the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Finance sponsored an international competition for the design of a conference centre with hotel and mosque.
Desert View Watchtower
This article is part of [SΓ] , a personal project curatedby Marta LΓ³pez GarcΓa where she wills to shed light on a twice silenced reality.
Spatial Retaining Bars
The most prominent aspect of the history of Phoenix is the mysterious disappearance of the Hohokum Indian civilization after 1000 years of continuous...
AMARG boneyard and Pima Air & Space Museum
AMARG military plane 'boneyard' & Pima Air & Space Museum On the one hand, a vast sea of old planes parked in the Arizona desert, all decommissioned...
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...