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Atlas of Improbable Places : A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elborough, Travis.
- Series:
- Unexpected Atlases
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History--Miscellanea.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (275 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Quarto Publishing Group UK, 2016.
- Summary:
- Atlas of Improbable Places shows the modern world from surprising new vantage points that will inspire urban explorers and armchair travellers alike to consider a new way of understanding the world we live in.
- Contents:
- Title Page
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- DREAM CREATIONS
- FLEVOPOLDER: The region reclaimed from the sea
- ZHELEZNOGORSK: Former closed Soviet city
- FREE CHRISTIANIA: Squatter-city
- AUROVILLE: 1960s utopian city
- SLAB CITY: The squatter metropolis
- PORTMEIRION: The Village
- ZVYOZDNY GORODOK: Star City
- HEARST CASTLE: Randolph Hearst's Xanadu-esque home
- DESERTED DESTINATIONS
- TEUFELSBERG: Abandoned U.S. spy station
- PRESIDIO MODELO: Cuba's most notorious former penitentiary
- BATTLESHIP ISLAND: Deserted mining settlement
- NO MAN'S LAND FORT: A long shunned coastal bulwark
- THE LOST CITY OF SAN JUAN PARANGARICUTIRO: Abandoned after the eruption of 1943
- HUMBERSTONE AND SANTA LAURA: Redundant saltpetre works
- WONDERLAND: Abandoned Disneyland-style theme park
- ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE: Village left abandoned since the Second World War
- MUYNAK: Drained port
- WITTENOOM: Asbestos-ridden industrial town
- ANI, KARS: Ruins of one-time capital of the Armenian Empire
- CONCRETE CITY: Garden city of the anthracite region
- VAROSHA: Abandoned tourist resort
- ARCHITECTURAL ODDITIES
- MARYHILL STONEHENGE: Concrete Stonehenge
- SPIJKENISSE: The 'real' fictional euro bridges
- KABAYAN: The Ibaloi mummy caves
- SANTURIO MADONNA DELLA CORONA: Chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside
- LONDON BRIDGE, LAKE HAVASU: The 1831 London Bridge
- THE AFRICAN RENAISSANCE MONUMENT: Controversial symbol of independence
- TEN COMMANDMENTS MOUNTAIN: The Fields of the Wood
- FLOATING WORLDS
- THE PALM: An artificial island paradise
- THE KINGDOM OF REDONDA: Uninhabited Caribbean island
- POVEGLIA ISLAND: Former plague quarantine island
- GREAT BLASKET: Uninhabited since 1954
- HOLLAND ISLAND: Island slowly being eroded by the water
- PALMERSTON: A community formed in its founder's image
- WRANGEL ISLAND: A place frozen in time.
- MOUNT RORAIMA: The Lost World
- ROSS ISLAND: British Indian penal settlement
- HIRTA: The Edge of the World
- OTHERWORLDLY SPACES
- AOKIGAHARA: The Demon Forest
- COLMA: City of the dead
- LEAP CASTLE: The World's most haunted residence
- DARVAZA CRATER: Door to Hell
- THE HILL OF CROSSES: Home to some 100,000 crosses
- THE ISLAND OF DOLLS: A terrifying attraction
- SUBTERRANEAN REALMS
- THE UNDERGROUND POSTAL RAILWAY: Rail Mail
- COLD WAR SPY TUNNEL: The telephone tapping centre
- BEIJING UNDERGROUND: Bunkers to beat the bomb
- MOOSE JAW: Illicit tunnels
- CINCINNATI: Abandoned subway
- ZKP TAGANSKY, AKA BUNKER 42: Cold War communications bunker
- PUERTO PRINCESA: Subterranean river
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INDEX
- Copyright.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780711264014
- 0711264015
- OCLC:
- 1293245008
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