Tag: Island
80 cursed places found
Astroland
was a 3.1-acre (1.3 ha) amusement park in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City that opened in 1962.
Catacombs of Milos
The Catacombs of Milos are an ancient underground Christian cemetery located on the island of Milos in the Cyclades, Greece, dating to the 1st-5th century...
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...
Unga
(Unangam tunuu: UΔnaasaqaxΜ) is a ghost town on Unga Island in the Aleutians East Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska, about two miles west of Sand Point.
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...
Big Island Amusement Park
Big Island Park (commonly referred to as Big Island Amusement Park) was a popular tourist destination that existed near Minneapolis, Minnesota between...
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
The central memorial space dedicated to commemorating the A-bombing of Hiroshima .
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...
Vinh Moc tunnels, Vietnam
Vinh Moc tunnels, Central Vietnam Another network of tunnels and underground dug-outs near the DMZ , in Central Vietnam .
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...
Housing development at Giudecca Island
is a notable architectural project in Venezia, Italy.
Marriot Marquis Hotel Times Square
There is always some confusion in defining what Manhattanism is and, mainly, how it is shown in a single building that represents the congestion of the...
Chiran Kamikaze museum
& shrine The premier memorial space in Japan devoted to those 'special attack groups' known as Kamikaze pilots.
Montserrat Volcano Observatory (MVO)
The official site from where a team of volcanologists monitor Montserrat 's Soufriere Hills volcano's activity and hazards.
Villa Mache
Iannis Xenakis built this Villa for his daughter and her husband, the French composer François-Bernard Mache.
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.
Villa Severina, El Correo 1.2
El Correo is a series that compiles the informal and playful exchange of letters between the editors of Hidden Architecture, defining a contingent...
Heligoland
Heligoland (Helgoland in German) is one of the coolest places that Germany has to offer β even though, strictly speaking, it isn't actually in Germany :...
Cape Town
The second capital of South Africa (officially the first is Pretoria, but parliament, government and president are partially based in Cape Town too).
Glenrio
formerly Rock Island, is an unincorporated community in both Deaf Smith County, Texas, and Quay County, New Mexico, United States.
Galaxy Towers
also known as the Galaxy Towers Condominium Association or GTCA, are a trio of 415 feet (126 m) octagonal towers located at 7000 Kennedy Boulevard East in...
Monument to Morelos on Janitzio Island
is a notable statue location in PΓ‘tzcuaro Municipality, Mexico.
Hanlan's Point Amusement Park
was an attraction on Hanlan's Point on the Toronto Islands that operated from the 1880s until the 1930s and was regarded as "Canada's answer to Coney...
Manila, El Correo 1.4
El Correo is a series that compiles the informal and playful exchange of letters between the editors of Hidden Architecture, defining a contingent...
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...
New York City
The "Big Apple", the biggest city, though not the capital city of the USA (that's Washington D.C.
Confederation Centre of the Arts
(French: Centre des arts de la ConfΓ©dΓ©ration) is a cultural centre dedicated to the visual and performing arts located in the city of Charlottetown,...
Roosevelt Island Masterplan
This article is part of Never Modern, a series curated by Hidden Architecture where we explore the conditions of several urban projects from 1950s onwards...
Austin
is an abandoned town in the Murchison region of Western Australia.
Ellis Island
New York An island in the bay that the mouth of the Hudson River forms south of the tip of Manhattan, New York .
Tarrafal, Cape Verde
Tarrafal prison camp, Cape Verde Islands A former prison/ concentration camp in the then Portuguese colony of Cape Verde , namely on the island of...
CafΓ© Pudding
Building and cafΓ© at Wangerooge island, Germany.
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...
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.
Slavery Museum Kura Hulanda
Slavery Museum Kura, Curacao A private museum that is part of a hotel/resort complex on the island of Curaçao called Kura Hulanda, founded and funded by...
District Six Museum
Cape Town A Cape Town museum commemorating District Six, a former residential area that the Apartheid government of South Africa decreed a "whites-only"...
Dai Kannon of Kita no Miyako park
The Dai Kannon of Kita no Miyako park (Japanese: εζ΅·ι倧観ι³, Hepburn: HokkaidΕ Daikannon), also known as the Hokkaido Kannon, as well as the Byakue Kannon, is...
Atsena Otie Key
is an island and ghost town one-half mile offshore of Cedar Key, Florida.
Makronisos, Greece
Makronisos - Another former prison/exile island in the Aegean Sea in Greece β cf. the better known Yaros .
Maison des Esclaves, Goree, Dakar
Maison des Esclaves, Goree The most (in)famous dark site in Senegal .
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...
Awaji Kannon
or World Peace Giant Kannon, was a large gypsum statue, museum and temple complex on Awaji Island, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan.
Sakurajima volcano, Kagoshima
One of Japan 's most active volcanoes β right opposite Kagoshima, the southernmost city on the southern mainland island of Kyushu.
The Nuragic Sanctuary of Santa Cristina
A few kilometers from the small town of Paulilatino, one can find the archaeological remain of the Sanctuary of Santa Cristina, a construction attributed...
Tukuturi
Moai on Easter Island. Tukuturi is a notable statue site in Isla de Pascua, Chile, known for its unusual character and eerie atmosphere.
Mt Tarawera and Te Wairoa buried village
Mt Tarawera & Te Wairoa buried village New Zealand 's volcanoes do not only provide for fantastic scenery to be marvelled at (cf.
Colossus of Rhodes
The Colossus of Rhodes (Ancient Greek: α½ ΞολοΟΟα½ΈΟ αΏ¬ΟδιοΟ, romanized: ho KolossΓ²s RhΓ³dios; Modern Greek: ΞολοΟΟΟΟ ΟΞ·Ο Ξ‘ΟΞ΄ΞΏΟ , romanized: KolossΓ³s tis RΓ³dou)...
Lippo Centre
(Chinese: εε―ΆδΈεΏ; Jyutping: lik6 bou2 zung1 sam1), previously known as the Bond Centre (ε₯ιδΈεΏ; ban1 daat6 zung1 sam1), is a twin tower skyscraper complex...
Hashima
(Gunkanjima) A small island in the sea south of Nagasaki , Japan , which is the location of one of the most spectacular ghost towns on Earth!
A Vere
Moai on Easter Island. A Vere is a notable statue site in Isla de Pascua, Chile, known for its unusual character and eerie atmosphere.
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.
Spassk
memorial A cemetery-like ensemble of memorial stones dedicated by various nations to the gulag centre that used to form part of the KarLag system in...
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...
PEI Ark
In 1974, the provincial and federal governments invited the Cape Cod-based New Alchemy Institute to construct a demonstration on Prince Edward Island of...
Marienfelde refugee camp memorial museum
A specialized memorial museum on the wider topic of divided Germany , and Berlin in particular, and especially on the issue of refugees from the GDR , who...
Harrisburg Three Mile Island nuclear plant
Harrisburg, Three Mile Island NPP The site of the potentially worst nuclear power station accident before Chernobyl .
Ggantija
Δ gantija is a megalithic temple complex from the Neolithic era (c. 3600β2500 BC), on the Mediterranean island of Gozo in Malta.
Gruinard Island Scotland
Gruinard Island, Scotland A small island off Scotland's north-western coast, Great Britain 's wildest and least inhabited corner.
cavern luola, 1900 (5)
Area on a kuninkaansaari island in Helsinki.
Robben Island
A prison island in the bay outside Cape Town .
Coppelia Ice-cream Building
The scene is unprecedented: It is 9:00 AM, and lines of people crowd around the garden where the Coppelia ice cream building is located.
Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La LibertΓ© Γ©clairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture of a robed and crowned...
Pyramiden
Spitsbergen A ghost town on Spitsbergen, Svalbard , that used to be the remote settlement surrounding the Russian coal mine of the same name.
Stromboli
UPDATE January 2026: Iβve just booked a trip to Sicily and the Aeolian Islands, including a two-day stint on Stromboli with a guided volcano hike (see...
Yaros prison island, Greece
Yaros (Gyaros) The infamous prison island in the Aegean Sea, basically a completely barren rock, which was used as a detention centre/ concentration camp...
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.
Lubyanka
KGB headquarters An imposing yellow, red and grey stone building on the square of the same name in Moscow β and once probably the most feared building...
Railway Sleeper House
In the 1970s Japanese architects were searching for independence.
House among pines
Juan Huarte had a summer house on the island of Mallorca, next to the sea, in Formentor designed by the architects GarcΓa de Paredes and Javier Carvajal.
Kaiser-Wilhelm-GedΓ€chtniskirche
In 1956, a limited competition was announced for the new construction of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, which had been severely damaged during the...
HtwoOexpo
is a notable architectural project in Neeltje Jans Island, Netherlands.
Port Howard
West Falkland A small settlement on West Falkland , the sparsely populated "lesser"of the two main islands of the archipelago.
Housing Development at Giudecca Island (II)
β It is the apparent monotony of the buildings, which constitutes the city, which accentuates the beauty of the monuments, of the remarkable buildings.
2-28 Memorial Museum
UPDATE: the museum is currently closed for refurbishment and remodelling; it's scheduled to re-open on 28 February (of course!) in 2025.
Archaeology of Superpositions, as seen in Sidonβs Sea Castle
Located at about 48 km from Beirut, Sidon (also known as Saida) is the third largest city in Lebanon.
Alexander Battery
Building on a Vallisaari island, Helsinki.
Mudyug Death Island
Mudyug or "Death Island" - An island north of Arkhangelsk in north-western Russia that once was home to a British concentration camp .
Quake City, Christchurch
Christchurch, the main city on New Zealand βs South Island, has been hit by earthquakes frequently, and especially hard in 2010 and 2011.
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.
Valletta
The capital of Malta and Europe's southernmost and one of the smallest.