If the walls of Eltham Palace and Gardens might talk, they’d tell some interesting stories. Fortunately, we can tell you about some of them in a brief history of the palace, which has hosted royals, millionaires, and even trainee gardeners! Thousands of people visit each year to enjoy the scenery of the gardens and gain […]
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The abandoned whaling station at Leith Harbour in South Georgia, South Atlantic, appears to have been bombed. Rusted steel chimneys are strewn across the roads. For 39 years, a massive whaling ship has been stranded in Iceland’s Skapadalur Valley. The picturesque valley has gained notoriety in part because of this ghost ship, which adds charm
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Joyland Amusement Park was once Wichita, Kansas, USA’s largest amusement park. The attraction has been open for business for 55 years. Joyland was founded on June 12, 1949. Lester Ottaway and his sons, Herbert and Harold, founded it. Herb Ottaway loved steam engines and race cars, and he restored both types of vehicles. The park
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Location: St. Louis, Missouri Once it was a Garbage Heap of Local Industry. The decrepit lot on Riverview Drive, an abandoned and run-down longtime cement factory, had become a common site for local construction workers to dump truckloads of excess dirt and rock. No one cared or attempted to reroute them because the old
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The wrecks of the Moulthrop house as well as the Shorter family cemetery can be found high on a bluff overlooking Lake Eufaula. In the 1830s and 1840s, the bluff was home to the early settlers of Eufaula, such as the Shorters. In 1837, General Reuben C. Shorter and his wife Mary Butler Gill Shorter
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Location: Maggie Valley NC Ghost Town in the Sky was a popular Western-themed mountaintop amusement park in Maggie Valley, North Carolina. R.B. Coburn, who was born in Virginia but later moved to Maggie Valley, founded the park in 1961. Ghost Town in the Air was a huge success in the 1960s, but later struggled, leading
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The first of Coimbra’s two Santa Clara monasteries was founded by the river in 1283. When frequent flooding compelled the construction of a new monastery nearby, the Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Nova (“the new”), it added “a velha” (“the old”) to the name in 1677. Dona Mor Dias founded the monastery as a residence for the
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Since 2011 the Hagedorn psychiatric hospital in New Jersey has been unable to provide services to the state’s residents. In 1907, the state of New Jersey created its first sanatorium near Glen Gardner, New Jersey, where the facility has been since. It’s possible to come across a road with a mysterious name while driving around
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Wittenoom is a ghost town of about 8 people who receive no public services. The Western Australian Government announced in December 2006 that the town would be degazetted, and in June 2007, Hon Jon Ford, Minister for Regional Development, announced that the townsite status had been officially removed. As a result, the town’s name will
Longwood Mansion in Natchez in Mississippi, is the largest octagonal home in the United States. It is known for its unusual octagonal design and byzantine onion-shaped dome. Also, the contrast between the unfinished first and second floors are notable. Longwood is a National Historic Landmark. It is also listed on the National Register of Historic
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