"DREAM CREATIONS
FLEVOPOLDER
The region reclaimed from the sea<\/I>

ZHELEZNOGORSK
Former closed Soviet city<\/I>

FREE CHRISTIANIA
Squatter-city<\/I>

AUROVILLE
1960s utopian city<\/I>

SLAB CITY
The squatter metropolis<\/I>

PORTMEIRION
The Village<\/I>

ZVYOZDNY GORODOK
Star City<\/I>

HEARST CASTLE
Randolph Hearst’s Xanadu-esque home<\/I>

DESERTED DESTINATIONS
TEUFELSBERG
Abandoned U.S. spy station<\/I>

PRESIDIO MODELO
Cuba’s most notorious former penitentiary

BATTLESHIP ISLAND
Deserted mining settlement<\/I>

NO MAN’S LAND FORT
A long shunned coastal bulwark<\/I>

THE LOST CITY OF SAN JUAN PARANGARICUTIRO
Abandoned after the eruption of 1943<\/I>

HUMBERSTONE AND SANTA LAURA
Redundant saltpetre works<\/I>

WONDERLAND
Abandoned Disneyland-style theme park<\/I>

ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE
Village left abandoned since the Second World War<\/I>

MUYNAK
Drained port<\/I>

WITTENOOM
Asbestos-ridden industrial town<\/I>

ANI, KARS
Ruins of one-time capital of the Armenian Empire<\/I>

CONCRETE CITY
Garden city of the anthracite region<\/I>

VAROSHA
Abandoned tourist resort<\/I>

ARCHITECTURAL ODDITIES
MARYHILL STONEHENGE
Concrete Stonehenge<\/I>

SPIJKENISSE
The ‘real’ fictional euro bridges<\/I>

KABAYAN
The Ibaloi mummy caves<\/I>

SANTURIO MADONNA DELLA CORONA
Chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside<\/I>

LONDON BRIDGE, LAKE HAVASU
The 1831 London Bridge<\/I>

THE AFRICAN RENAISSANCE MONUMENT
Controversial symbol of independence<\/I>

TEN COMMANDMENTS MOUNTAIN
The Fields of the Wood<\/I>

FLOATING WORLDS
THE PALM 105
An artificial island paradise<\/I>

THE KINGDOM OF REDONDA
Uninhabited Caribbean island<\/I>

POVEGLIA ISLAND
Former plague quarantine island<\/I>

GREAT BLASKET
Uninhabited since 1954<\/I>

HOLLAND ISLAND
Island slowly being eroded by the water<\/I>

PALMERSTON
A community formed in its founder’s image<\/I>

WRANGEL ISLAND
A place frozen in time<\/I>

MOUNT RORAIMA
The Lost World<\/I>

ROSS ISLAND
British Indian penal settlement<\/I>

HIRTA
The Edge of the World<\/I>

OTHERWORLDLY SPACES
AOKIGAHARA
The Demon Forest<\/I>

COLMA
City of the dead<\/I>

LEAP CASTLE
The world’s most haunted residence<\/I>

DARVAZA CRATER
Door to Hell<\/I>

THE HILL OF CROSSES
Home to some 100,000 crosses<\/I>

THE ISLAND OF DOLLS
A terrifying attraction<\/I>

SUBTERRANEAN REALMS
THE UNDERGROUND POSTAL RAILWAY
Rail Mail<\/I>

COLD WAR SPY TUNNEL
The telephone tapping centre<\/I>

BEIJING UNDERGROUND
Bunkers to beat the bomb<\/I>

MOOSE JAW
Illicit tunnels<\/I>

CINCINNATI
Abandoned subway<\/I>

ZKP TAGANSKY, AKA BUNKER 42
Cold War communications bunker<\/I>

PUERTO PRINCESA
Subterranean river<\/I>

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Atlas of Improbable Places

A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners