The building stood in stark contrast to Beijing's iconic Water Cube, a facility constructed for the 2008 games, and which is still in use today.A sad scene in Athens Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP/GettyImages Pictured here is a stadium from the 2004 Olympics in Athens. The photo was taken on...
Driving California’s scenic coastal route of Highway 1, you may notice a strange building that looks like it’s growing out of a boulder. That’sDevil’s Slide, an observation bunker encased in a nest of rocks during World War II, when conventional wisdom suggested that a Japanese attack ...
In 1929 we were reaching our furthest at the time, as the first flight over the South pole by Admiral Richard Byrd took place, and building the highest with the beginning of construction of the Empire State Building, tallest building in the world for many years to come. Looking both 'direc...
The interior of the building was in as good condition as the exterior. Some natural decay from 15 years without maintenance as well as a few graffiti, but nothing too bad. For the most you could still see the original design of the wall, which was part space, part Egyptian style… ...
While the Sankei Hospital was just a single building with not much tourism prowess, the good people of Toyako turned lemons into lemonade. They cleaned up the area, constructed some landslide catching dams for safety and built some hiking trails through the destroyed area and past some craters....
Driving California's scenic coastal route of Highway 1, you may notice a strange building that looks like it's growing out of a boulder. That's Devil's Slide, an observation bunker encased in a nest of rocks during World War II, when conventional wisdom suggested that a Japanese a...
That being said, the whole building was in bad condition and partly falling apart, with the rest being moldy. A decent location worth stopping for for sure, but nothing spectacular when you have more than 10 years of exploring in Japan under you belt (at the time). In addition it was ...
pit lane, a bit above the race track, we found a two-storey building. The lower floor once housed a restaurant and I guess it dated back to the speedway days. The upper floor once was the home of somebody. Quite an unspectacular house with the usual remains of an abandoned building. ...