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• Haunting Stone Steps Lead to the Lost Location of Ireby Grange

  
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  (Images by Alexandra Smith , all rights reserved) This enchanting pillared staircase can be found at High Ireby in the historic county of Cumberland . The wide stone steps once led to a grand three-storey mansion called Ireby Grange, which was the real ‘Fortress’ in Hugh Walpole’s third book of the ...
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• The Lake District’s Mysterious Cottage in the Rock

  
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  (Images: Alexandra Smith , all rights reserved) On an isolated, blustery hill known as ‘Pepperpot Hill’ in the Lake District , a chimney, complete with flue, fireplace and stone surround has been built into the rock outcrop of an old quarry near Torpenhow (a village whose name, meaning ‘hill, hill, hill’ ...
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• A Different Kind of Aircraft Graveyard: Fatigue Test Airframes at Paine Field, Washington

  
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  (Image: Rafal Szczypec , reproduced with permission) Tucked away on the north side of Paine Field near Everett, Washington, is an aircraft graveyard stocked with some of Boeing’s most impressive airliners – but none of these jets ever flew. The battered fuselages, including several early Boeing 747 s ...
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• Infiltrating Nicosia’s Abandoned International Airport & Derelict Aircraft (20 Photos)

  
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  (All images reproduced with the permission of Ilya Varlamov via Flickr ) Nicosia International Airport has been abandoned  as a commercial flight area since the Turkish Invasion of Cyprus in 1974. The runways and main airfield facilities are principally under the control of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force ...
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• Orbital Nostalgia: Retired NASA Space Shuttles in Rare Nose-to-Nose Encounter

  
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  (All images by NASA, via Space.com , public domain) For more than 20 years they were housed in adjoining bays at Kennedy Space Center. Shuttles Endeavour and Atlantis were allocated to Orbiter Processing Facility 1 and 2 respectively, while Discovery lived in OFP-3 across the road. But despite their close ...
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• Diving One of the World’s Biggest Wrecks: The SS Coolidge in Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu

  
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  ( Images:  Aquamarine , reproduced with permission ) On October 26, 1942 the SS President Coolidge tried to enter the harbor of Espiritu Santo , an island in the south pacific where a large military base had been established. The captain wasn’t informed of a friendly mine field that had been laid out, and the ...
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• Google Earth Reveals Wartime Anti-Aircraft Battery

  
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  (Images via Google Earth ) It’s amazing what can be found while flying around the world via Google Earth – the ghostly images of Britain’s wartime airfields , for instance, slowly returning to farmland. Meanwhile, between Dalkeith and Edinburgh, Scotland’s Places noticed this World War Two-era ...
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• The Forgotten Ruins of ‘The Ancient Mariner’ Pub

  
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  (Images: Alexandra Smith , all rights reserved) The ruins pictured are those of The Ancient Mariner pub in Workington , Cumbria, which was extensively damaged in 2003 after a gas leak caused a massive explosion followed by a fierce blaze. Since the 1970s, the pub had been given the dubious nickname ‘Honky ...
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• Dadipark (Belgium)

  
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  Originally established in 1949 by a priest as ‘Daiselpark’, this was one of the first theme parks for kids in Belgium. Located in Dadizele, a quaint little village in Western-Flanders and later renamed ‘Dadipark’, the demise of this well known park set in in 2000, after a young boy was seriously injured in the ...
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• Train Graveyard Discovered Inside an Abandoned Railway Depot

  
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  (All images by klickertrigger [mostly off]  ( Urbex Leipzig ), reproduced with permission) Urban explorer ‘klickertrigger’ of Urbex Leipzig documented this abandoned railway depot in Belgium. With several disused locomotives under its roof, the shed is a relatively rare example of an indoor train graveyard. ...
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• 360 night tour of an abandoned cement plant

  
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  A full moon 360 from up on the catwalk at the abandoned cement plant Long exposures at night with moving clouds can make stitching 360 panoramas difficult. The 6 panos in virtual tour below were shot some time ago. Over the last 6 months I’ve finally developed a reasonably efficient post-processing technique to ...
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• 20 Historic Photos of Downed Luftwaffe Aircraft during the Battle of Britain

  
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  (All photos are in the public domain via Wikimedia Commons, sources below) For three months and three weeks during the summer and Autumn of 1940, the Battle of Britain raged in the skies over southern England. The first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, Germany’s efforts to gain air superiority ...
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• Buchanan Castle

  
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  Buchanan Castle is more of an early Scots baronial house than your typical Scottish castle and was built between 1852 and 1858. The castle briefly saw service as a hospital during World War II, and a hotel prior to that in 1925. The roof of the castle was removed in 1954 to avoid paying tax on the building which ...
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• Abandoned America by Urbex Photographer Matthew Christopher

  
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  (All images by Abandoned America , reproduced with permission) Matthew Christopher  has been fascinated by abandoned places since childhood. But it wasn’t until researching the decline of the US state hospital system a decade ago that his passion for urban exploration was truly ignited. Since ...
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• “Street Art” at Abandoned Dalry Road Station

  
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  (All images by Urban Ghosts ) A couple of weeks ago while wandering around our local abandoned railway station – Dalry Road in Edinburgh – I came across this strange image on the path. It resembles a figure with head (covered in leaves), torso and two legs, but could equally be nothing more than a spilled tin ...
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• Railway Relics: The Remains of Dalry Road Station, Edinburgh

  
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  (All images by Urban Ghosts ) This forlorn platform is all that remains of Dalry Road station , located on the North Leith branch of the defunct Caledonian Railway . Once home to a station building, engine shed and goods yard , the station closed in the 1960s. The site now stands adjacent to Edinburgh’s ...
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