Atlas of Forgotten Places

Section 1: Vacant Properties - Buyukada Orphanage, Istanbul, Turkey - orphanage surrounded by a dense forest of pine trees, which housed as many as 1,000 at its peak, but closed in 1964. - Zarnowiec Nuclear Power Plant, Poland - the first nuclear power plant in Poland. Construction was abandoned, partly due to political changes and partly due to the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. - The Castle Dona Chica, Portugal - a Neo-romantic castle that was conceived and executed in 1915 by Swiss architect Ernesto Korrodi. The project suffered from a lack of funds early, eventually changing hands and falling into the possession of creditors. - Sammezzano Castle, Tuscany, Italy - a Moorish castle mostly still in ruins despite some attempted restoration. - San Souci, Haiti - royal seat of Henri Christopher, a formerly enslaved man who became Haiti's only king, Henri I. - Rubjerg Knude, Denmark - famous abandoned lighthouse in North Jutland. The lighthouse was moved 70 metres inland in October 2019 to secure it from erosion. - Pyramiden, Norway - a Soviet ghost town in the Arctic Circle that was initially sold by Sweden to the Russians at the turn of 20th century.Section 2: Unsettled Situations - Craco, Matera, Italy - the hilltop town that has been uninhabited for more than 50 years. - Old Al Ula, Saudi Arabia - founded in the 6th century BC, a walled city of mud-brick and stone houses, now abandoned. - Mandu, India - a 6th century ancient town in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh once called the City of Joy', which now lies in ruins. - Grangesberg, Sweden - a former mining town in Sweden, partly abandoned and with whole swathes of housing empty since the mine closed in 1989. - Dollersheim, Austria - the birthplace of Adolf Hitler, this village was requisitioned by the Germans as a military training camp during WWII and was seized by the Soviet army at the end of the war. Over 2,000 residents were forcibly resettled and it remains a military exclusion zone to this day. - Plymouth, Montserrat - the small Caribbean island with a population of 11,000 that was evacuated when its volcano erupted in 1995. The volcano is still active and nearly half the island remains a designated exclusion zone. - Kolmanskop , Namibia - a former diamond mining town that was abandoned in the 1950s after intensive mining depleted the area. - Kennicott, Alaska - once a flourishing copper mine, the resources were depleted by the late 1930s and the town mostly deserted by the 1950s. - Wunsdorf, Germany - the abandoned Soviet camp, headquarters to the Nazis and then the Soviets. Once home to 75,000 Soviet men, women and children, now abandoned.Section 3: Dilapidated Destinations - The West Pier, Brighton, UK - Brighton's wrecked and ruined pleasure pier. - Santa Claus, Arizona, USA - a Christmas themed resort town in the desert, on the road to ruin since it closed in 1995. - The Ducor, Hotel, Liberia - a 1960s luxury hotel gone to rack and ruin. It was visited by Idi Amin and used in during the siege in 2000 in the Second Liberian Civil War. - Hachijio Royal Hotel, Japan - once the largest hotel in Japan. Situated on the Uzu islands, which were promoted as the Hawaii' of the country in the 1960s, but lost out to cheaper destinations and fell into ruin etc. - Grand Hotel de la Foret, Corsica - a late-Victorian hotel favoured by English travellers, which fell into ruin since the decline of railways - Camelot Amusement Park, Chorley, Lancs, UK - an Arthurian theme park in Lancashire that closed in 2012 and now lies in ruins. - The Salton Sea Riviera, California, USA - a one-time resort favoured by Frank Sinatra et al. It declined in 1970s and the lake became polluted and is now an ecological disaster. - New World Mall, Bali, Thailand - a mall in Thailand once awash with shoppers but now teeming with fish after the abandoned building was flooded. - Kupari, Croatia - the now abandoned beach resort in Yugoslavia, once frequented by Yugoslavia's military elite, which was largely destroyed in the civil war. - The Hellinikon Olympic Complex, Greece - state-of-the-art sports venues built for the 2004 Summer Olympics, which now lie decaying and unused.Section 4: Journeys Ended - Nicosia Airport, Cyprus - the airport was abandoned after a military coup and now sits inside the demilitarised zone in Cyprus. - Uyuni Train Cemetery, Bolivia - a graveyard of abandoned locomotives on the edge of Bolivia's salt flats. - Balaklava Submarine base, Crimea - a former Soviet submarine base, kept off official maps and known as Object 825 GTS. - Crystal Palace Subway, London - the disused subway underneath Crystal Palace Parade, which allowed access to Paxton's vanished Crystal Palace. - Suakin, Sudan, Africa - one of the oldest seaports in Africa, it declined and fell into ruin when Port Sudan was built 50 km to its north. - City Hall Subway, New York - the city's first underground station, which closed in 1945.Section 5: Obsolete Institutions - St Peter Seminary, Scotland - a disused brutalist Catholic Seminary in Cardross, which was opened in the 1960s and hailed as modernist masterpiece. It has since been abandoned and fallen into ruin. - Roosevelt Smallpox Hospital, New York - a defunct smallpox hospital on an island in the Hudson. - City Methodist Church, Indiana, USA - a disused methodist church, once the biggest in the Mid-West USA. - Seaside Sanatorium, Waterford, Connecticut - an abandoned tuberculosis clinic for children. Plans remain to turn the ruins and grounds into a state park. - Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA - infamous former prison in San Francisco Bay that was abandoned in 1963. - Ospedale Psichiatrico di Volterra, Tuscany, Italy - the abandoned lunatic asylum dubbed the place of no return', which has been shut since 1978. - Akampene Punishment Island, Uganda - an island where unmarried pregnant girls were housed. Empty now, but in danger of sinking into the sea. - Lennox Castle Asylum, Glasgow - the mental asylum in a former castle, finally closed in 2002.