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Battelle
is an unincorporated community in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States.
Jerome Junction
is a ghost town in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.
Monte Grappa war memorial
The military memorial of Monte Grappa is the largest Italian military ossuary of the First World War.
Aultsville
is a ghost town in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is one of Ontario's Lost Villages, which were permanently flooded by the creation of the St.
Iultin
(Russian: ΠΡΠ»ΡΡΠΈΠ½; Chukchi: ΠΠ²ΡΠ»ΡΠΈΠ½) was an urban-type settlement in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, part of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia.
Frisco
is a ghost town in Beaver County, Utah, United States. It was an active mining camp from 1879 to 1929.
Cima
(Spanish for "Summit") is a small unincorporated community in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California, in the United States.
Coutchman
(sometimes spelled Couchman) is a ghost town in northern Freestone County, Texas, United States, some four miles southwest of Streetman, off Texas Farm to...
Lida
Nevada is a small ghost town in Esmeralda County, Nevada, near the border with California. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place.
Barclay
The ghost town of Barclay, in Franklin Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, was a coal mining town.
Peak Hill
is the name of a goldfield, locality and the site of a gold mining ghost town in the Murchison Region of Western Australia.
Antioch
is a ghost town in Houston County, Texas, 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.
Signal
is a ghost town located on the banks of the Big Sandy River in southern Mohave County, Arizona, United States.
Dresden
A city in the south-east of Germany that is in the dark annals of world history primarily as the victim of one of the worst aerial bombing raids in the...
Bodie
( BOH-dee) is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States.
Memorial ossuary on MaΔkov kamen
Memorial Ossuary MaΔkov kamen (Serbian Cyrillic: MaΡΠΊΠΎΠ² ΠΊΠ°ΠΌΠ΅Π½) is a memorial monument located near Krupanj, Serbia, which stands on the mountain Jagodnja...
Tafjord
The site of yet another disastrous landslide causing a tsunami in a fjord in Norway (cf.
Uluru
Project in collaboration with Guillermo FernΓ‘ndez Pardo, Esperanza Romeu Pardo, Luis MΓ‘rquez Barrero.
ChΓ’teau de Lusignan
The ChΓ’teau de Lusignan (in Lusignan, Vienne dΓ©partement, France), of which hardly any traces remain, was the ancestral seat of the House of Lusignan,...
Montserrat Volcano Observatory (MVO)
The official site from where a team of volcanologists monitor Montserrat 's Soufriere Hills volcano's activity and hazards.
Aso
Mt Aso, Kyushu ----------------- UPDATE 10 October 2016: I've just heard that Mt Aso has sprung to life again in an explosive eruption and that access to...
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).
Kolmanskop
(Afrikaans for "Coleman's peak", German: Kolmannskuppe) is a ghost town in the Namib in southern Namibia, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) inland from the port town...
Crisp
is an unincorporated community in Ellis County, Texas, United States. It was the birthplace of country music star Ernest Tubb.
Harnekop nuclear bunker
Lost places: Harnekop nuclear bunker [ ] UPDATE: sadly, this place has now closed down, since it passed into new hands.
Belcher Camp
is a ghost town located in Ferry County, Washington, United States. The town is located on upper Lambert Creek, nearly ten miles northeast of Republic.
Kurchatov
Kazakhstan - darkometer rating : formerly 8 - now possibly no more than 5 or 6 ...
Chalet HindiΓ©
Designed in the early 1970βs by Lebanese architect Maurice HindiΓ©, this mountain chalet was constructed as a home-refuge for the architect and his family...
Mcmath-Pierce Solar Telescope
Glowing like an American Stonehenge, this giant, upside-down concrete βVβ looks like a tribute to the Sun God, which in a sense it is.
Bankhead
Alberta was a small coal mining town that existed in the early twentieth century, in Banff National Park, near the town of Banff, Alberta.
Preah Vihear
Cambodia An ancient mountain-top temple complex on the Cambodia - Thailand border, the possession of which has long been contested, despite an...
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.
Ses Rotes
We had reached the first turning to enter Pollensa , we turn left leaving behind the hermitage of Roser-Vell and took the only road that goes into the...
Yad Vashem
This is the Holocaust memorial site in Israel , namely in Jerusalem , to the west of Mt Herzl: a hilltop 'national cemetery', 'Mount of Remembrance',...
Five Towers in San Sebastian
Every person from Donostia has learned to relate space and time, nature and memory, from childhood when they climbed to the rock of the whaler of Mount...
ResidΓͺncia Baeta
The land of this house is at the foot of a mountain range, covered by the Atlantic Forest, by the sea.
KarLag memorial, Dolinka
A memorial museum about the Soviet Union 's gulag system in the area of Karaganda, Kazakhstan , which had its headquarters here in the village of Dolinka.
Sakurajima volcano, Kagoshima
One of Japan 's most active volcanoes β right opposite Kagoshima, the southernmost city on the southern mainland island of Kyushu.
Residencia Olivo Gomes
In keeping with current standards of understanding of nature and the value it can represent in architecture, as a complement to buildings, we have tried...
Goma, DRC
A city in Eastern Congo (DRC) on Lake Kivu near the border with Rwanda .
Iberg castle ruin
Iberg Castle (German: Ruine Iberg) is a ruined castle located on Iberg mountain in the municipality of Riniken in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
Kindergartenhaus Wiedikon
This article is part of the Hidden Architecture Series βTentative dβΓpuisementβ , where we explore the practice of an architectural criticism without...
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.
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)...
Bates
is an unincorporated community in Grant County, Oregon, United States. It has a post office with a ZIP code 97817. The elevation is 4,062 feet (1,238 m).
Cristo Redentore
The Statue of Christ the Redeemer of Maratea (Italian: Cristo Redentore di Maratea) is a statue of Jesus Christ in Maratea, southern Italy, realized in...
Mittelbau-Dora
Of all the large memorial sites of former Nazi concentration camps in Germany , Mittelbau-Dora stands out in a number of ways: the camp was the last one...
Dawson’s Heights Estate
This article is part of the [SΓ] , a personal project curated by Marta LΓ³pez GarcΓa where she wills to shed light on a twice silenced reality.
Hilltop House
The Hilltop House, one of the Morganβs greatest designs, epitomizes his intention to build with the earth, not on it, the essential attribute of his earth...
Jaggar Museum, Volcano NP
UPDATE 2018: the museum has been closed since the eruptions that began in May 2018, and the National Park website now says "indefinitely".
Nyiragongo volcano, DRC
Nyiragongo volcano, Congo One of Africa's (and the world's) most active volcanoes, located in the Democratic Republic of Congo , and one of only a very...
Tbilisi, Georgia
The capital city of Georgia , and the hub of the country. It doesn't offer much in the way of dark sites itself, except a couple of minor sights.
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Ashgabat (but extra marks on the weirdness scale!) The capital city of Turkmenistan is one of the strangest cities in the world.
Lichtenberg Castle
(German: Burg Lichtenberg), also called the Heinrichsburg ("Henry Castle"), is a ruined castle dating to the 12th century in the Lichtenberge hills (the...
Christ of the Ozarks
statue is a monumental sculpture of Jesus located near Eureka Springs, Arkansas, atop Magnetic Mountain.
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.
Park Hotel
Situated on the side of a mountain, the hotel was initially planned as a temporary establishment, housing ten flats for the promoters of the Parque de Sao...
Hohenstaufen Castle
(German: Burg Hohenstaufen) is a ruined castle in GΓΆppingen in Baden-WΓΌrttemberg, Germany.
Liepaja
A town on the Baltic coast of Latvia . It is also a significant sea port.
Felsenbad Gastein
***Article written by Julian MΓ€ndl*** Over decades Bad Gastein, a small mountain village nestled deep in the eastern part of the Austrian Alps, held the...
Kirche Maria KrΓΆhnung
This article is part of the Hidden Architecture Series βTentative dβΓpuisementβ , where we explore the practice of an architectural criticism without...
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...
Tsitsernakaberd Armenian genocide memorial, Yerevan
Tsitsernakaberd Armenian genocide monument & memorial museum - The main site commemorating the Armenian genocide of 1915 (and the build-up to it),...
Budapest, Hungary
Budapest The grand capital city of Hungary .
God of the Red Mountain
is a notable statue location in Weihai, People's Republic of China.
Bledug Kuwu
mud volcano Now here's an obscure sight you won't find in the usual guidebooks at all: a highly active mud volcano in Central Java, Indonesia , whose...
Dian Fossey's grave at Karisoke, Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda
Dian Fossey's grave at Karisoke, Rwanda A site in Rwanda of pioneering conservationist heroism, of tragedy, mystery and beauty all in one.
Irbene radio telescope
A rare relic of the Cold War , the RT-32 radio telescope at Irbene in northern Latvia (aka Irbene radio locator) was once used by the USSR to spy on NATO...
Pyramiden
Spitsbergen A ghost town on Spitsbergen, Svalbard , that used to be the remote settlement surrounding the Russian coal mine of the same name.
Christ Blessing
Jesus Blesses or Christ Blessing (in Manado language is Yesus Kase Berkat or Kristus Kase Berkat) is a statue of Jesus Christ in Manado, North Sulawesi,...
Ebensee
In Ebensee there was one of the most significant satellite camps of the Nazi Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria during the final years of WWII .
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...
Ararat
Mt Ararat (ArΔi DaΔi) + meteor crater and "Noah's Ark" (but weirdness factor partly up to 10) Mt Ararat is considered by Armenia to be their very own holy...
Devinska Kobyla
Devinska Kobyla is the name of a hill to the north-west of Bratislava , Slovakia , with the suburb/village Devin at its foot.
Congress Centre Gastein
***Article written by Julian MΓ€ndl*** Over decades Bad Gastein, a small mountain village nestled deep in the eastern part of the Austrian Alps, held the...
Viti
Askja Viti means 'hell' in Icelandic β and even though the trip there isn't quite so hellish as the name implies, it's still extreme: Viti is an explosion...
El poder brutal
("Brutal Power"), also known as La cara del diablo ("The Face of the Devil") or El diablo de Tandapi ("The devil of Tandapi"), is a colossal sculpture...
Ciudad Universitaria Teaching Faculty
In 1952 I received the order from the Ministry of National Education of drafting the project of a building plan in the University City for the Labor...
Amridil, El Correo 1.3
El Correo is a series that compiles the informal and playful exchange of letters between the editors of Hidden Architecture, defining a contingent...
Merapi
volcano, Java Merapi is Indonesia 's most active volcano, and that's saying something in this country that has more active volcanoes than any other!
Eagle's Nest, Obersalzberg
Germany A prime destination in the far south of Germany primarily for history tourism buffs with a special interest in the Nazi era and WWII ...
Gaustabanen
An incredible underground tunnel system inside which funicular trains go all the way to the top of Mt Gausta, the "jewel of the Telemark", in southern...
Temirtau
This central Kazakhstan town, just north of Karaganda , is a heavy-industry centre of infernal proportions, which includes one of the largest integrated...
Punchbowl
βPunchbowlβ is the informal name for an old volcanic crater right in Honolulu, towering above the cityscape.
Krakatoa
Site (in Indonesia ) of what was probably the most infamous volcanic eruption in history: in 1883 the old Krakatoa volcano exploded, creating destruction...
Aeroseum
A unique aviation museum near GΓΆteborg (Gothenburg), Sweden , housed in a former air force base in an underground hangar hewn into the rocks of a mountain...
Minidoka
One of the ten β War Relocation Centers β, i.e. de facto concentration camps , in which the USA interned some 120,000 Japanese Americans during WWII .
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...
Jungfrau Railway
A less than 10 km (6 miles) long railway line leading to the highest train station in Europe at the so-called Jungfraujoch, a ridge between a trio of...