Tag: Maritime
40 cursed places found
PLTD Apung 1
stranded power generating ship, Banda Aceh This is the second most important tsunami-related sight in Banda Aceh (after the Tsunami Museum ).
Sinking Ship
The Sinking Ship is a multi-story parking garage in Pioneer Square, Seattle, United States, bound by James Street to the north, Yesler Way to the south,...
BallinStadt emigration museum
Hamburg A museum chronicling the waves of emigration from Europe to the New World, mostly the USA , as well as migration in general.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
A harbour town on the east coast of Nova Scotia, Canada , whose maritime heritage includes a couple of particularly dark ones.
Fragonard Museum
Paris The Fragonard Museum, or Musee Fragonard, which is part of Paris 's veterinary university Ecole nationale veterinaire d'Alfort (ENVA for short), is...
stranded boats in Banda Aceh
In addition to the big PLTD Apung 1 , many smaller vessels, especially fishing boats, were also carried inland by the 2004 tsunami in Banda Aceh .
Bearmouth
is a former town located in Granite County, Montana, USA.
Chicago
The third-largest city in the USA , (after New York and L.A. ) and one of its most spectacular as far as skyline (skyscrapers!) and location are concerned.
Titanic
The wreck of the Titanic, North Atlantic --------------------------------------- UPDATE 23 June 2023: a deep-sea submersible (called "Titan") taking...
Brooklyn Watefront
A design for a spectacular site on the Brooklyn waterfront situated opposite Lower Manhattan and below the Brooklyn Heights Promenade.
Drago School
This building, with its great white facade overlooking the sea, is conceived of as a continuation of the long and extensive white walls of the old...
Glienicke Bridge & Museum
Glienicke Bridge & Museum A small bridge with a big history, located right on the border between (West) Berlin and Potsdam .
Seaplane Harbour
museum A modern, award-winning, recent addition to Tallinn 's portfolio of attractions. The Seaplane Harbour Museum is housed in a huge three-domed hangar.
Pittwater House
“When you open up something that’s not glass and are just left with a hole in the wall, it’s the most acute connection to outside you’ll ever get.”...
Église Notre-Dame de Royan
Church located in Charente-Maritime, in France.
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...
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!
Ex-Presidio & Museo Maritimo
Ex-Prison & Maritime Museum of Ushuaia Ushuaia 's premier sight is also its main sight from a dark tourism perspective: the ex-presidio (former prison)...
Makronisos, Greece
Makronisos - Another former prison/exile island in the Aegean Sea in Greece – cf. the better known Yaros .
Maison des Esclaves, Goree, Dakar
Maison des Esclaves, Goree The most (in)famous dark site in Senegal .
National Maritime Museum Cornwall
This article is part of the [Sí] , a personal project curated by Marta López García where she wills to shed light on a twice silenced reality.
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.
Gruinard Island Scotland
Gruinard Island, Scotland A small island off Scotland's north-western coast, Great Britain 's wildest and least inhabited corner.
Titanic Tours, Belfast
to Ever since Belfast reconnected with its Titanic legacy – due to the fact that the ship was built here (cf.
Hamburg
Hamburg is Germany 's second largest city, after the capital Berlin – also in terms of dark tourism.
Case Milanesi. 1923-1973
Title: Case Milanesi 1923-1973. Fifty years of residential architecture in Milan Authors: Orina Simona Pierini, Alessandro Isastia Edited by: Ulrico...
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo The capital city of Japan and one of the largest conurbations in the world.
Villa E.1027
This article is part of the [Sí] , a personal project curated by Marta López García where she wills to shed light on a twice silenced reality.
Pyramiden
Spitsbergen A ghost town on Spitsbergen, Svalbard , that used to be the remote settlement surrounding the Russian coal mine of the same name.
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...
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...
Pavilions for Conversations
This article is part of the Hidden Architecture Series “Attitude” , where we explore current works by contemporain architectes which, despite its...
Nules Lighthouse
Every Image and Text by Blanca Lleó This project won the first prize of the national contest for ideas of Lighthouses and Maritime Signals.
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 ,...
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...
Karl Marx Beach
This is a ship cemetery on the coast of Angola just north of the capital Luanda.
National Maritime Union building – O’Toole Building
The elegance and style of the NMU building is a symbol of the upward mobility of the labor movement since the 1930s.
San Baudelio de Berlanga
This article is part of the Hidden Architecture Series “Tentative d’Épuisement” , where we explore the practice of an architectural criticism without...
De Bol
With this study we proposed a new maritime triangle in order to restore the connection between the city and the harbour.
Cold War Navy Museum
Skibene på Holmen - A Cold War and Navy museum in the harbour of Copenhagen , Denmark , including three vessels from the era that are now open to the...