Architecture and Infrastructure
Hotel Monte Palace
Opened the 15th of April 1989 as a luxurious 5 star hotel, on the top of a mountain. The hotel had 2 restaurants (Dom Carlos, & Grill Dona Amélia), an american style bar (D. Urraca), a nightclub (Discoteca Charmarrita), a…
Albanian Bunkers
Albania built approximately half a million bunkers between 1975 and 1989. The Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha feared that other countries wanted to invade Albania and overthrow him. He commanded that every municipality in the country should produce and build bunkers,…
Bannerman Castle / Bannerman Island Arsenal
The castle was actually a large warehouse, built on Pollopel Island in Hudson River, by the Scottish businessman Francis Bannerman VI, as a warehouse to store his stock of weapons and ammunition. Bannerman bought the island in November 1900, to…
Dunk Island
One of the islands that make up the Family Islands National Park, and a part of the Great Barrier Reef. 4km from the Queensland coast, not far from the town of Mission Beach. The Island was named by James Cook…
Duga Radar
The Duga was a Soviet “Over the horizon” radar system, and was a part of the Soviet missile defence early warning system that operated from July 1976 to December 1989. The first signals (probably from a predecessor) were detected in…
Buzludzha
This monument was built on the site of a historic battle, where 30 Bulgarian rebels fought against 700 Ottoman troops on the 31st of juli 1868. The Bulgarian rebels lost, and only 4 of them survived the battle, but it…
Calico
Established in 1881. Largest silvermine in California, by the late 1800’s More than 500 mines, and a population of 3,500 people. In 1896 the government decided to regulate the price of silver, by introducing the “Silver Purchase Act”, witch made…
The woolly warehouse
Decades have gone by since the doors last were opened in this large stone warehouse. Now big sacks of wool, are being covered with dust, together with the old three wheeled van, that brought them there. Industrial area full of…
The forgotten tanks of Lesvos
The island of Lesvos is less than 10km from the Turkish main land, and the two countries have a long history full of conflicts. Several places along the island’s coast, tanks like this one can be found, dug halfway into…
Karnin lift bridge
The remains of Karnin Lift Bridge, (or Hubbrücke Karnin, as it is called in German), is situated in the middle of the Peenestrom estuary in North Germany. The bridge was built with rust-resistant steel in 1932 (opened in 1933), and…
