An abandoned holiday resort in Racha, Georgia.Credit: Barcroft Media via Getty Images This post is part ofHard Refresh, a soothing weekly column where we try to cleanse your brain of whatever terrible thing you just witnessed on Twitter. ...
Along with the other officers, Hare, just 13-years-old, was sent to a the walled town of Verdun which served as a prison depot and allowed to live within the walls on parole. In 1806, however, he was transferred to the prison fortress of Sarre Libre (now Saarlouis in modern Germany)...
There were days of walking around the old shopping streets of Nakano or past the futuristic buildings of Odaiba or under the bright lights of Akihabara, or staring out at the waves of Lake Yamanaka during my trips back to my old home in Yamanashi. And there were trips to other places as ...
Her female protagonist, who insists on being called “Boss,” leads teams off-the-grid to salvage old abandoned spaceships. In the process of doing this, she encounters a 5,000 year-old military ship powered by an anacapa drive which folds space to enable a ship to travel immense distances...
which is run by the Natural History Museum. Her image is being shown along with that of 16-year-old Thai Katanyou Wuttichaitanakorn – who won Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year for an up-close image of a whale’s baleen – as well as those of category winners in this year’s co...
Chris Christie ordered the state government to shut it down—leaving it abandoned, right next to the ruins of the old TB center. Together, the pair comprises the abandoned Hagedorn Psychiatric Hospital complex in Glen Gardner, New Jersey, where nature is taking its course. The New Jersey ...
Here’s what the old building looked like before the 1871 fire, viewed from directly in front, as you approach from the rue Victoria. There is nothing on this card to identify the photographer. But if you are still playing the game, you will spot a bench visible on the left that is ...
One was hovering over an abandoned factory building across the street from where l lived in New Jersey, while the other stood still almost perfectly above the house that my grandparents owned. I didn’t observe any portholes, ‘little green men’ didn’t wave at me, but I fully realized ...
North Bend Lumber abandoned its mill in Edgewick, but a few residents decided to rebuild and stay. Tragically many of them were wiped out by another flood in 1932, this time from Boetzke Creek. That flood was caused by a railroad culvert blocked by debris amid extremely heavy rains. My ...
Located in the south-west corner of Old Palace Yard, the tower was originally used as a personal treasure-house for King Edward III and was known as the King’s Privy Wardrobe. Later it was used to house government documents and in 1869 became the Weights and Measures Office. ...