Forgotten Places
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
By Patrick Appel A list of the top ten ghost towns from around the world. (Image by Flickr user coda)
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Ghost towns
kottke (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Photos and descriptions of some of the world's neatest ghost towns . I've seen many of these elsewhere but hadn't heard of this village in France before. The small village of Oradour-sur-Glane, France, is the setting of unspeakable horror. During World War II, 642 residents were massacred by German soldiers as punishment for the French Resistance. The Germans had initially intended to target nearby...
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In the Lists
The Strategist (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Oddee lists the world's ten most amazing ghost towns. Japan's Gunkanjima (Battleship Island) must surely be the strangest. Foreign Policy lists the world's five worst advisers. Douglas J Feith - he of the "Office of Special Plans" - is one...
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Info Bits
Look At This... (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Adventures at the Guinness Storehouse (PICS) Dr Horrible's sing-along Blog 10 Greatest Major-Impact Craters on Earth The $1million holiday you will never go on Speechable 5 Places the U.S. Gov't won't let Google Show You Aerial View of the Salt Ponds of San Francisco (PIC) 10 Most Amazing Ghost Towns 41 Amazing Tilt-shift miniature faking photographs (PICS) Graffiti Snails Attack London Phantom City...
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Could be called “10 places I’d like to visit”
Mutantfrog Travelogue (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
I stumbled across a fantastic post on Oddee entitled “10 Most Amazing Ghost Towns“, all 10 of which are officially now on my list of places I’d like to go. My affection for ruins and abandoned places is well documented, so how could I resist places like this sand-drowned Numibian village? As it so happens, I [...]
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Travel: Oddee has put together a list...
Gridskipper (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Oddee has put together a list of ten of the world’s ghost towns, complete with awe-inspiring photos of the abandoned areas. Sites include Namibia’s Kolmanskop, Taiwan’s San Zhi and Italy’s Craco. [via Kottke]
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10 Most Amazing Ghost Towns
Impacted Wisdom Truth (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
An interesting photo journey .
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Kolmanskop
dcat (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The blog Oddee has a feature (with lots of great pictures) on the ten most amazing ghost towns in the world . I have only been to one of these, but it is the one ranked at the top of the list, Kolmanskop in Namibia. It is every bit as spectacular as the pictures indicate, as is the entire Skeleton Coast of Namibia. hat tip to Patrick Appel , one of Andrew Sullivan's pinch hitters while the doyen of...
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10 Amazing Ghost Towns
mattrutherford.com (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
These are amazing – 10 ghost towns from around the world – I’ve been to one.
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Do You Remember the Good Old Days Before the Ghost Town?
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Oddee surveys 10 ghost towns around the globe, from the sand-buried city of Kolmanskop in Namibia to a longtime libertarian favorite, the anarchic Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong. [Via Infocult .]
