Railroad of Death

Abandoned Salekhard-Igara Railroad
The Salekhard-Igarka Railway, referred to variously as 501 Railroad, Railroad of Death, Road of Death, and Dead Road, was a project of the Soviet Gulag system that took place from 1949 to 1953. It was part of a grand design of Joseph Stalin to span a railroad  across northern Siberia to reach the Soviet Union’s easternmost  territories. The connection from Igarka to Salekhard measured 806 miles  (1,297 km) in length. The project was built mostly with prisoner labor,  particularly that of political prisoners, and thousands perished.
The purpose of the railway was threefold: to facilitate export of nickel from neighboring Norilsk; to provide work for thousands of post-war prisoners; and to connect the deep-water seaports of Igarka and Salekhard with the western  Russian railway network. With Soviet industry relocated to western  Siberia during World War II, it was seen as a strategic advantage to use  the northward-flowing river systems to deliver supplies to Arctic Ocean  ports. Salekhard was on the Ob River, downstream from Novosibirsk and  Omsk, and Igarka was on the Yenisei, which flowed north from  Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, and even Lake Baikal.
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The Ghost Town of Varosha, Cyprus
The area of Famagusta known as Varosha has a rich history of prosperity  despite of long-standing conflicts in the region. In the 1970s, however,  the Turkish invaded and claimed the tourist territory as their own.  They erected fences with warnings and forbade the return of any  residents. After decades of disuse the structures have fallen into a  serious state of disrepair and are in many cases no longer habitable by  anyone save the sea turtles which call some beach-side structures home. source

Facade of the Lier Sykehus asylum.

Treat me, I’m mad!

Come, be with me.

Who hid in the attic?

Bath time in Lier.