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Mo'ynoq - the city of the dead ships

Mo'ynoq, a town in Uzbekistan, used to be a thriving port city. Now, Aral Sea, which the city stood on, has dried up due to the human thoughtlessness, and the place is considered one of the creepiest…
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Askeran Fortress

Currently there are 48 landlocked countries in the world. Nagorno-Karabakh is obviously can be called landlocked as today it is surrounded by Azerbaijan. The ethnic Armenians prefer the ancient name…
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Port Royal - the sunken pirate Babylon

Port Royal, Jamaica, was the pirate Babylon of the 17th century, supported by the British and governed by the infamous Henry Morgan. After the earthquake in 1692, the city sank to the bottom of the…

The Black Castle

The Black Castle, or Halshany Castle was built in 1610 in Hrodna Voblast, Belarus, and has many spine-chilling legends about it - cursed graveyards, subterranean churches, the ghosts of Black Monk and…

The Palace of Garbage King

Palacio do Rei do Lixo, or the Palace of the Garbage King, in Coina, Portugal is famous for its bad reputation. Besides that the main owner of the place was believed to be a blasphemous freethinker,…

Montserrat, the ash-covered island

Since 1995, Montserrat keeps being continuously covered in ash due to series of intermittent eruptions of Soufriere Hills volcano for the last 15 years. If you are into abandoned ghost towns and…

Varosha, the luxury ghost beach resort

Varosha is a ghost beach town in Famagusta, Cyprus, which used to be one of the luxury vacation places in the world for the richest and the wealthiest. In 1974, Turkish army invaded Cyprus, surrounded…
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Giant rusty space gun of Barbados

One of the fruits of US-Canadian High Altitude Research Project is a gigantic space gun, left to rust in the bush of Barbados since 1967. The goal of the project was to shoot objects into the upper…

The unfortunate fate of the World Discoverer

The World Discoverer is an abandoned cruise ship near Solomon Islands, which was built in 1974 and met his fate in April 2000. Rescuing the ship was too costly because of the ongoing civil war on the…
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