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Book SynopsisAtlas 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.
Table of ContentsDREAM 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 105
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
