The Dead Road

Construction Projects 501 and 503: the Salekhard–Igarka railway, driven across the polar tundra by prison labour between 1947 and 1953. After Stalin's death the work was abandoned in a single day. Some seven hundred kilometres of track remain in the tundra, along with locomotives, bridges and camp compounds with their watchtowers and barracks — all still standing, because removing it would have cost more than leaving it. It is called the dead road not for its ghosts: it leads nowhere and never did.

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Isla Hashima

Una isla diminuta frente a Nagasaki, atiborrada de bloques de hormigón para los mineros del carbón y abandonada en 1974 al cerrar la mina. Su silueta le valió el apodo de Gunkanjima, «la isla acorazado».