Deserted Floating City of Oily Rocks.
Including one strange city in the world located offshore Azerbaijan, which is now abandoned and dilapidated. 'Oily Rocks' was built on an offshore rig and grew into a city. Interestingly, most of the 'foundation' of the city take advantage of the material from the sunken wreck. Originally created to serve the oil industry, and provides housing, schools, libraries and shops for workers and their families. Now part of the building is still there, but many roads have disappeared swallowed by the waves.
Abandoned Launch Platform for some of America's first spy satellites.
It is a platform for the launch of spy satellites first American to have been abandoned. There are many isolated military bases around the world, but only a few are off the beaten track like this Johnston Atoll.
Located in the central Pacific and consists of more than one runway that is broad, it is not difficult to imagine what has been done here over the years with their radar. Originally a natural island on a coral reef about 750 miles northwest of Hawaii, Johnston Atoll has been enlarged over the years by coral dredging. The result: a man-made island that is half of a large military base with accommodations for more than 1,000 people.
Between 1958 and 1975, Johnston Atoll Atoll is used as a nuclear test site for nuclear weapons underground and above ground. Some nuclear test missile was launched from the atoll during "Operation Dominic" in 1962. Johnston Atoll well established as a platform for some of the launch of the first American spy satellites and other scientific rockets. But in 1993, the military mission has been minimized and even this place was abandoned.
The Fort in the middle of nowhere.
This was a military fort in the middle of the sea, quite strange because it was built complete with moat !. Fort Jefferson is part of Tortugas National Park in the waters of Key West, Florida. Construction on the "castle in the middle of nowhere country" started in 1846. Originally intended for the US defense, but for 30 years in construction was not found a good reason to achieve that goal.
During and after the Civil War, the fort began to be used as a prison for deserters and other criminals. In 1874 soldiers left the fort after several hurricanes and epidemics of yellow fever, but around 1898 the place is used navy who use its facilities during the Spanish-American War. This fort was also used from 1888 to 1900 as a quarantine station.
Ghost Island - The highest population density ever recorded.
Dubbed as a ghost island, the island city that was built by Mitsubishi was once listed as the city with the highest population density in the world. Other names are Hashima Island (meaning "island of the Border"), are also commonly referred Gunkanjima (meaning "island of wars") is one of the 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture about 15 kilometers from Nagasaki itself.
The island was inhabited from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility. Facilities such as a cinema, doctor, arcade, restaurant and bar was added later, and the city became a community, developing microcosm. The whole complex is connected via an underground tunnel. At its peak in 1959, Hashima Island is the most densely populated cities in the world, with 5,259 inhabitants on the outcropping, small rocky island. That means there are 835 people for every 2.5 acres.
When petroleum replace coal in Japan in the 1960s, coal mines began closing around the country, and Hashima mine was no exception. Mitsubishi officially announced the closing of the mine in 1974, and to this day is empty and empty, so-called Ghost Island. Travel to Hashima now been banned.
Man-Made Abandoned Military Island.
Fort Carroll is an artificial island fortress of 3.4 acres (14,000 m²), which had been abandoned in the middle of the Patapsco River, just south of Baltimore, Maryland. In World War II, was used as a firing range for the Army and a checkpoint for ships.
The government no longer use the castle as a military post in 1920, and the island is declared as 'surplus property' in 1923. In May 1958, a Baltimore attorney purchased the island for $ 10,000, but the development plans never materialized. The fort now remains deserted.
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