Atlas of forbidden places

Discover the dramatic fate of abandoned heritage and the forgotten beauty of the relics that many countries no longer protect. Each ruin tells a different story, but with a common theme: the fall from grace.

Résumé

A beautifully illustrated, fascinating compendium of abandoned places that were so recently a significant part of modern life but are now discarded and ravaged by nature and time.

From empty manor houses to crumbling churches and disused factories across Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia, it reveals many of the world's sleeping treasures, relics from a bygone era, all with a history and a story to tell.

• Travel to Stack Rock Fort, a Victorian island reclaimed by nature
• Discover the Castle of Sammezzano, a masterpiece of excess and refinement
• Explore the Palazzo Athena, a neo-classical house with a large, elliptical room that extends over 2 floors
• Investigate the Crespi d'Adda Power Plant, the jewel of industrial technology in 1909
• Examine the Hugo Mine Hangman's Room which is not what you think
• Journey to Saint Martin of the Tigers a ghost town in Southern Angola, a model settlement in one of the most inhospitable regions of the Namibe desert
  Each place comes with a bespoke map to help locate the forsaken site and is illustrated with beautiful photographs that really bring the places to life.

Turn to the Atlas of Forbidden Places to uncover the incredible stories behind once thriving buildings. Take a peek behind closed doors to discover who used to live there or work there and understand why these places were abandoned.

Countries covered in the Atlas of Forbidden Places:

Africa - Angola, Morocco, Namibia

Americas Cuba, USA

Asia Armenia, Kazakhstan, Japan, Lebanon, Pakistan

Europe Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxemburg, Portugal, Romania, Spain, UK, Ukraine

Also in the same series:

Atlas of Geographical Curiosities

Atlas of Extreme Weathers

Atlas of Unusual Wines

Contenu
Twelve Monkeys Power Plant • Baltimore, United States Abandoned buildings in Havana • Cuba Subterranean Reservoirs and Cisterns • London, United Kingdom Crossness Pumping Station • London, United Kingdom Wilders Folly • Reading, United Kingdom Royal Aircraft Establishment • Farnborough, United Kingdom Stack Rock Fort • South Wales, United Kingdom Alla Italia Thermal Spa • Liège Province, Belgium Maidens School • Liège Province, Belgium Flood Castle • Liège Province, Belgium Lucky Castle • Liège Province, Belgium Top Grunge MIG • Liège Province, Belgium The Commodities Exchange • Antwerp Province, Belgium Satellite Communication Station • Kester, Belgium Cooling Tower • Monceau-sur-Sambre, Belgium Crimson Earth • Luxembourg A hovertrain 'Made in France' • France The theatre of Dole • France Cement factory dome • Spain 21st-century crypt • Porto, Portugal The Crespi d'Adda power plant • Italy Palazzo Athena • Italy Castello Non Plus Ultra • Italy Sant'Elia Stadium • Sardinia, Italy Hugo Mine Hangman's Room 2 • Germany Kraftwerk Vockerode • Germany VEB Kraftwerk • Germany Church of Saint George • Lukovà, Czech Republic Kelenfold Power Plant • Hungary Sharovsky Castle • Kharkiv region, Ukraine Lenin Palace of Culture • Dnipro, Ukraine Abandoned town of Pripyat • Chernobyl, Ukraine Hunedoara station • Romania Casino Constanta • Romania Buzludzha • Bulgaria Polytechnic University of Gyumri • Armenia Tbilisi funicular • Tbilisi, Georgia Tskaltubo • Georgia Baikonur Cosmodrome • Kazakhstan Tomb of Bibi Jawindi • Pakistan Gunkanjima • Japan Kolmanskop • Namibia Saint Martin of the Tigers • Tiger Island, Angola Meknes aerodrome • Morocco Gran Teatro Cervantes • Tangier, Morocco Hammam Al-Nouri • Tripoli, Lebanon