Tag: Mildly Cursed
15 cursed places found
Blockhaus d’Éperlecques
Le Blockhaus d’Éperlecques - This bunker and open-air museum was originally constructed as one of the V-weapons bases by Nazi Germany in the Pas-de-Calais...
Z Ward
A former Adelaide lunatic asylum for the “criminally insane”, including those deemed a danger to themselves and/or others.
Sonnenberg Bunker
This is one of the world’s largest public fallout shelters from the Cold-War era, located in the city of Lucerne, Switzerland .
Quake City, Christchurch
Christchurch, the main city on New Zealand ’s South Island, has been hit by earthquakes frequently, and especially hard in 2010 and 2011.
J Ward
& Aradale Mental Hospital - A former prison and lunatic asylum for the “criminally insane” in the small town of Ararat, Victoria, Australia .
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.
Fitzroy
8 June 1982 was the blackest day for the British task force in the Falklands War , when two landing ships at Fitzroy on East Falkland were hit by...
Metsamor
Armenia - Metsamor is home to Armenia 's infamous nuclear power plant of the same name – reputedly one of the most dangerous such plants in the world.
Moulagenmuseum
An excellent collection of medical wax models (technical term: ‘moulages’) on public display in a dedicated small museum at Zürich ’s medical university...
Hospital in the Rock
& Nuclear Bunker - A labyrinthine system of tunnels inside Buda Castle Hill in Hungary ’s capital city Budapest that was turned into a bombproof hospital...
Contemporary History Museum Maarjamäe
Contemporary History Museum at Maarjamäe - A branch of the Estonian History Museum of Tallinn , the contemporary part is housed in a former palace at...
Resistance Museum Lyon
Resistance Museum, Lyon - Lyon was the "capital of the Resistance" (quote Charles de Gaulle) in France under the Vichy regime during WWII and Nazi Germany...
Camp Kigali Belgian Memorial
The site in Rwanda 's capital city Kigali where ten Belgian UN peacekeepers were murdered by the Hutu extremists in order to provoke a withdrawal of the...
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...
Green Line (north)
The Green Line (north) - The Green Line , the UN -controlled buffer zone between Greek Cypriot South Nicosia and Turkish Cypriot North Nicosia , can be...