Tag: Railway
100 cursed places found
Rumbula
A memorial commemorating one of the worst massacres perpetrated in the Holocaust by the Nazi Einsatzgruppen against the Jews of Latvia , when on just two...
Jerome Junction
is a ghost town in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.
Bagdad
was a settlement and railroad stop located in northern Forest County, Wisconsin, United States.
Armstead
is a former community in Beaverhead County, Montana, United States, about 21 miles (34 km) south of the county seat of Dillon.
Sego
is a ghost town in Grand County, Utah, 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.
Andersonville
was a town in Anderson County, South Carolina, that was settled around 1800. It was named for Robert Anderson, who was a Revolutionary War veteran.
Banning
Delaware, USA was a stop in Cedar Creek Hundred on the now defunct Queen Anne's Railroad line between Ellendale and Greenwood positioned at the NE corner...
Bennett
British Columbia, Canada, is an abandoned town next to Bennett Lake and along Lindeman Creek (formerly known as the One Mile River).
Bear River City
is a ghost town that was briefly, 1867โ1868, a rapidly thrown together railroad town.
Cook
is a railway station and crossing loop located in the Australian state of South Australia on the Trans-Australian Railway.
Hot Springs
is a ghost town in King County, Washington, United States.
Askwith
is a ghost town located in Piscataquis County, Maine, United States.
Fairbank
is a ghost town in Cochise County, Arizona, next to the San Pedro River.
Climax
is an extinct mining company town, railroad station, and post office located in Lake County, Colorado, United States.
Kanchanaburi, Thailand
A provincial capital city in the western region of Thailand of the same name.
Hundred Mile City
Build a street based, linear city a hundred miles long, 200 metres wide and 4 storeys high. Wrap it round London.
Sorge open-air border museum
Another border museum on the former line of division between Germany East ( GDR ) and West ( FRG ) during the era of the Iron Curtain and the Cold War .
Attalia
() is an extinct town in Walla Walla County, Washington, United States. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place.
Siedlung Klosterneuburg
In his plans, Frank envisaged 118 row houses on a square plot.
New York World Building
โDonโt Amputate-Renovate' is a series curated by Hidden Architecture where we conduct a work of recovering and archiving of buildings demolished in New...
Kozloduy nuclear power plant
A large nuclear power station in Bulgaria โ and until a few years ago one of the potentially most dangerous nuclear installations in the world.
Eichsfeld border land museum
Yet another of Germany 's border museums on the former Iron Curtain division line between the FRG (West) and GDR (East).
Friedrich Steinberg, Herrmann&Co. Hat Factory
This is the first industrial plant built by Mendelshon.
Greenbelt station
is a Washington Metro and MARC station in Prince George's County, Maryland.
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...
Kurchatov
Kazakhstan - darkometer rating : formerly 8 - now possibly no more than 5 or 6 ...
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.
Kanchanaburi WWII Museum, Thailand
Kanchanaburi World War II Museum (where it is dark โ otherwise 1, but weirdness: 10) - A private museum right by the Bridge over the River Kwai in...
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.
Singer Building
โDonโt Amputate-Renovate' is a series curated by Hidden Architecture where we conduct a work of recovering and archiving of buildings demolished in New...
Skopje
The capital city of the North Macedonia (formerly "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia") in the southern Balkans has at least two sights that put in on...
post-socialist tour
Bratislava Post-Socialist Tour A special-interest tour offered by an alternative operator in Bratislava that takes in socialist monuments and grand...
Glenrio
formerly Rock Island, is an unincorporated community in both Deaf Smith County, Texas, and Quay County, New Mexico, United States.
Murmansk
A city in the Arctic north-west of Russia , close to the Barents Sea and the easternmost part of Norway .
Blood Road Museum
A small museum about the construction of a vital road in northern Norway during the occupation of the country by Nazi Germany .
Greenbrier
The Greenbrier nuclear bunker, West Virginia The formerly secret location of a nuclear bunker that was to house the USA 's Congress if World War Three had...
๏ปฟFrom urbanism to “interiority”: Nuestra Seรฑora de la Luz Church
This article is part of the Hidden Architecture Series โTentative dโรpuisementโ , where we explore the practice of an architectural criticism without...
South Pass City
is an unincorporated community in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States. It is located 2 miles (3 km) south of the intersection of highways 28 and 131.
The Musicians House
The method of โAnalogue Architectureโ has been dead for a while.
Marienthal government bunker
( for speakers of German) A part of a formerly huge underground nuclear bunker at Ahrweiler and Marienthal near Bonn that was to serve as the emergency...
Fukuro-machi Elementary School Peace Museum
The preserved section of a school building that was exposed to the A-bombing of Hiroshima .
Scotland's secret bunker
Scotland's Secret Nuclear Bunker A no longer quite so secret former government nuclear bunker in Scotland, Great Britain , that has been opened to the...
Secondary School in Stettbach
A considerable vertical difference is the characteristic feature of this Stettbach slope where, according to a commemorative plate, the French and...
Groothandelsgebouw
The Groothandelsgebouw (meaning Wholesale Building or Offices) is an extensive building and monument in the center of Rotterdam, Netherlands next to the...
Saint-Guidon/Sint-Guido metro station
Saint-Guidon (French, pronounced [sษฬ ษกidษฬ]) or Sint-Guido (Dutch, pronounced [sษชnt หxiหdoห]) is a Brussels Metro station on the western branch of line...
Annelly
is a ghost town in Richland Township, nine miles southeast of Newton in Harvey County, Kansas, United States.
Nordbahnhof ghost stations exhibition
Nordbahnhof โ ghost station exhibition A small topical exhibition in a restored Berlin underground regional metro train station, which itself used to be a...
Pirna-Sonnenstein euthanasia centre
Pirna-Sonnenstein Schloss (castle) Sonnenstein in Pirna in Saxony, Germany , was one of the six "euthanasia" killing centres of the Nazis ' " Aktion T4 ".
Aralsk, Aral Sea
Aralsk & North Aral Sea This poor town used to be the main fishing port on the Aral Sea , before the latter began drying up.
Sobibor
Sobibรณr The site in eastern Poland of one of the three death camps of Operation Reinhard in 1942/43, the very deadliest phase of the entire Holocaust .
Kwai Bridge, Thailand
The Bridge over the River Kwai The real "Bridge on the River Kwai" in Thailand . Yes, it really exists.
Eckley
is an area in Contra Costa County, California, which served as a train-ferry landing for crossings of the Carquinez Strait prior to the opening of the...
Alexander
is an unincorporated community located in southern Erath County in Central Texas, United States.
The Acropolis Place
The Acropolis building fragments are not a collection brought together by an individual or a nation.
Avery
(Meskwaki: รwรฎheki) is a ghost town in Lincoln County, Oklahoma, United States.
Centre Point
is a building in Central London, comprising a 34-storey tower; a 9-storey block to the east including shops, offices, retail units and maisonettes; and a...
The Centre Cumbernauld
(formerly Cumbernauld town centre and The Cumbernauld SHopping Centre) is the commercial centre of the new town of Cumbernauld, Scotland.
Baden Historisches Museum
This article is part of the Hidden Architecture Series โTentative dโรpuisementโ , where we explore the practice of an architectural criticism without...
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...
Cรณrdoba Bus Station
When I was commissioned to design the Cordoba Bus Station Project, a multitude of memories of my first journeys came to mind.
Preston
also known as Preston Bend, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located on the Red River in Grayson County, Texas, United States.
Liverpool Overhead Railway (LOR)
The Liverpool Overhead Railway (LOR) was a train system that worked during 1893 until its closure in 1956 after serious damages caused during the World...
Wos 8
is a heat transfer station that supplies warm water for a neighbourhood ofUtrecht. In 1997, NL was commissioned to design its faรงade.
New York Hippodrome
โDonโt Amputate-Renovate' is a series curated by Hidden Architecture where we conduct a work of recovering and archiving of buildings demolished in New...
Shinjuku Ruriko-in Byakurenge-do
Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama received the commission to build a new Buddhist temple near Shijuku station, one of the busiest areas of Tokyo.
Zorita Nuclear Power Plant Village
The original project for this first Nuclear Power Plant that Uniรณn Elรฉctrica Madrileรฑa is building in Zorita (Guadalajara) was based on a very compact...
Lippo Centre
(Chinese: ๅๅฏถไธญๅฟ; Jyutping: lik6 bou2 zung1 sam1), previously known as the Bond Centre (ๅฅ้ไธญๅฟ; ban1 daat6 zung1 sam1), is a twin tower skyscraper complex...
Old train station earthquake ruin, Skopje
Earthquake ruin of Skopje train station The remainder of what used to be Skopje 's main train station until the disastrous earthquake of 1963 caused part...
Arlington
is an unincorporated community in western Phelps County, Missouri, United States.
Anita
is an extinct town in Hensley Township, Johnson County, Indiana, United States.
Batumi
A city on the Black Sea in Georgia , near the border with Turkey .
Hellfire Pass, Thailand
Hellfire Pass Hellfire Pass itself is a cutting on the former infamous Death Railway in western Thailand .
Caserne de Pompiers (Fire Station)
is a notable architectural project in Agadir, Morocco.
Glasgow Necropolis
Scotland A Victorian cemetery right next to Glasgow's cathedral, Scotland, Great Britain .
Riga Ghetto Museum
A partly open-air kind of museum in Riga that is about the Riga Ghetto specifically but also about the Holocaust in Latvia in general.
Harrisburg Three Mile Island nuclear plant
Harrisburg, Three Mile Island NPP The site of the potentially worst nuclear power station accident before Chernobyl .
Huelva Central Bus Station
The new bus terminal for Huelva was to be located on a site in the form of a 33ยบ sector with a radius length of 200 meters.
Edificio Altolar
Placed on the city's southern hills, Altolar opens itself to the views of the valley of Caracas.
Paraรญso
is a station on Line 1 (Blue) and Line 2 (Green) of the Sรฃo Paulo Metro.
Vantage Point
(formerly Archway Tower designed by Oscar Garry & Partners Architects) is a 195-foot (59m) 17-storey residential apartment building above Archway...
Gemaal Parksluizen
Pumping station in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Gemaal Parksluizen is a notable architecture site, known for its unusual character and eerie atmosphere.
Forsmark nuclear power station
Sweden Sweden is one of the most ardent advocates of the use of nuclear power (while at the same time vehemently critical of nuclear arms).
JEATH Museum Kanchanaburi, Thailand
JEATH Museum The oldest of all the Death Railway related museums in Kanchanaburi , Thailand .
Gouden Leeuw
This article is part of the Hidden Architecture Series โTentative dโรpuisementโ , where we explore the practice of an architectural criticism without...
Antolini: Proposal for the station area of Brno
Pier Vittorio Aureli, The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, 2011
BrooklandโCUA Station
is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., on the Red Line. Service began on February 6, 1978.
Death Railway, Thailand
The Death Railway, Thailand The actual railway line in Thailand (and Burma) that Japan infamously had built by forced labourers, including western POW s,...
Friedrichstraรe & Trรคnenpalast
Friedrichstraรe station & 'Palace of Tears' As one of the latest additions to Berlin 's extensive dark tourism portfolio, a new exhibition opened in...
Cementerio General, Santiago de Chile
As the name 'general cemetery' implies, this is Santiago de Chile 's main cemetery, a large expanse of over 200 acres to the north of the city centre.
Live Forever / The Return of the Factory
Live Forever: The return of the Fafactory We propose a building for 1,600 inhabitants located within the Telliskivi Creative Campus, a triangular site,...
Kelvedon Hatch secret nuclear bunker
A former Cold War government nuclear bunker in Great Britain , and now privately owned and accessible as a kind of eccentric (if somewhat scruffy) museum.
Passeig de les Estacions
Two stations, the railway crossing, the depressed car parks, the buses, the connections programmeโฆ all make us think of a park where there are cuts...
Penn Station
โDonโt Amputate-Renovate' is a series curated by Hidden Architecture where we conduct a work of recovering and archiving of buildings demolished in New...
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...
Cold War Museum REGAN Vest
A unique sight in Denmark , the former nuclear bunker for the Danish government (and the monarch!) from the Cold War era.
Macclesfield railway station
serves the Cheshire market town of Macclesfield, England. It lies on the Stafford to Manchester branch of the West Coast Main Line.
Astana
The shiny, glitzy new capital city of independent Kazakhstan .
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 ,...
Locomotiva 3. Proposal for the area of Spina 4
The proposal of Pier Vittorio Aureli, located in the area of Spina in Turin, is a remarkable example of how to combine the XXL urban scale with a domestic...