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Objectively, an uninhabited house, building or town sends out a pretty clear—and often creepy—signal that it’s probably best to stay away. And yet, for reasons that are hard to explain, we’re instantly attracted to such places by a feeling. Maybe it’s curiosity. Or excitement. Or fear. But we have to know what’s going on there. We need to snoop around. We want to understand the story. In this book, full of facts and pictures, we explore
...Often, it starts with a good idea. Build a luxury resort or formidable prison. Race to a gold-mining boom town or bankroll an amusement park. But then the troubles start, sometimes all at once, with war or a natural disaster, and sometimes more slowly, due to economic decline or changing social forces. And sometimes somebody just does something plain stupid. The result is the haunting locations found in these pages, the abandoned towns, castles,
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