and mostly compulsory, annual respite – the “right to rest” was inscribed in the Russian constitution. Under the communist regime, a visit to the doctors could result in being dispatched to somewhere likeLatviaor Georgia where spa towns were renowned for the healing...
In India — a land known for revering its elderly — a growing number of older people are being abandoned by their own families. Expanding lifespans and a lack of facilities for this aging population are putting more pressure on caregivers. (AP Video: David Goldman, Matt Sedensky, Martha ...
Lion City, located in Zhejiang province in China, is actually submerged underneath Quandao Lake. Built over a 1,000 years ago, the city wasflooded in 1959to create a reservoir for a hydroelectric power plant. Several other towns and villages were also flooded, displacing some 290,00 citizens...
owing to its myriad brothels and hop joints. And it wasn’t long before it finally went bankrupt in the 1940s and become one of the best well-preserved ghost towns in the world.
Parksville, NY is another town located in Sullivan County that was once thriving and now there's no one there. Some of these ghost towns in Hudson Valley aren't in our view to see while many are hidden within acres of land. Have You Heard Of This Abandoned New York Ghost Town?
which winds through almost deserted towns and small middle American communities filled with memories. Oklahoma has quite a few totally abandoned towns, left over from the oil rush in the early part of this century. For now, I am using the time I am isolated inside to hone my skills and pr...
More than 200 people have died on the lake since the 1990s, and more than 700 have died there since the lake’s creation in 1956. This haunted lake in Georgia is located between Sugar Hill and White Sulfur Springs, on top of a town that was formerly known as Oscarville. Oscarville ...
They were found in Georgia. We don't know the make — the front end is too far gone — but we are sure the working life of this demolished big rig tractor is over. What's left of it has been abandoned in an eastern North Carolina field. (Photo by Jim Meachen)This 1947 Ford ...
www.trainweb.org/nprr - Narragansett Pier Railroad In the mid-19th Century, a railroad was built from the New Haven Railroad at West Kingston, RI, through the textile-mill towns of Wakefield and Peacedale to Narragansett Bay. This web site depicts the rise and fall of that short line......
Otherwise known as “the old stone house,” the remnants of this Greene County, Illinois manor were, at one time, part of a mansion built in 1848 by a stockman namedAzariah Sweetin. Though nothing but a shell today, a grand ballroom once occupied the third floor, a ballroom that was ...