8 FORGOTTEN GIANTS . . . . . .

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8 Forgotten Giants . . . . . .                    
                       
1 – Lighthouse hidden in the sand
Rubjerg Knude Lighthouse in Jutland Denmark started life on December 27, 1900 (construction started in 1899).

The lighthouse is on the top of Lønstrup Klint (cliff), 60 metresabove sea level. Until 1908 it operated on gas which it produced from agasworks on the site.
It ceased to operate on August 1, 1968.
The lighthouse was consumed by the moving sandmasses of a gigantic dune during the last 15 years.Up to the late 90s the lighthouse was a working one with a museum and atea house attached. Nowadays there is only a ruin left of the once niceand impressive lighthouse.
Shifting sands and coastal erosion led to the buildings being abandoned in 2002.


2 – The “American Star”

One of the most remarkable shipwrecks on record, theS.S. America was beached off the coast of the Canary Islands, after astorm broke the towlines from a tugboat dragging the ship near thecoast of Morocco. After it beached, the America’s hull split in two,and the stern section eventually sank. An interesting note: locals fromthe Canary Island of Fuerteventura have ransacked the ship, and much oftheir home furnishings, etc. are former pieces of the great merchantliner. The bow of the S.S. America (actually called the American Starat the time of its demise) still remains beached about a mile fromshore.


3 – The church which stood over a sea of lava

OnFebruary 20, 1943, a volcano suddenly rose from the ground at theMexican state of Michoacan, and buried two villages in lava and ashes.Today, 64 years after the eruption, the only trace of the villages isthe church tower of San Juan Parangaricutiro, a little building whichstood above a sea of rugged lava.


The church of San Juan is now a ghostly and abandoned ruin in the middle of nowhere. During the eruption, the lava flowed around and into the church, and covered 3/4 of the town. Just beneath the church, the old houses and buildings keep buried under the rocks.


4 – Construction Crane Buried in Ice Sheet

In the mid 1960s, ITT built a power transmission line in Antarctica. The transmission towers stood 115 feet tall.
As you can see in this photo, all but the top 40 feet of the towers arenow buried in ice, and the crane used to build the towers will soon betotally covered by ice
Not only are the power transmission towers being buried, so are the Antarctic research stations themselves.
The old Byrd Station has been shut down because it is buried beneath 40 to 50 feet of ice and snow and is slowly being crushed.


5 – The incomplete Ryugyong Hotel.

If Dr. Evil was a real person, he would need a real hideout, and thatreal hideout may very well be The Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, NorthKorea.The giant dark monolith , has 105 floors, yet it is completely empty without a single window.



This is the striking (and huge)Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea. It’s a 330-metre-tallpyramid-shaped building with 3,000 rooms, and was supposed to have 7revolving restaurants, except they never actually finished it. Newspapers estimated the cost ofconstruction was $750 million – 2% of North Korea’s GDP – and it isgenerally assumed construction came to a halt in 1992 due to lack offunding, acute electricity shortages, and the prevailing famine.



The building itself is complete, however it has no windows, fixtures orfittings – which makes it officially the world’s Tallest UnoccupiedBuilding! In fact, it’s the tallest building by far in North Korea, the18th tallest building in the entire world, and if it were ever to becompleted, would be the world’s tallest hotel.


The Ryugyong Hotel appears in the game
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, where a wanted North Korean official has turned it into a fortress. The building is destroyed with a bunker buster bomb.
Update: After 16 years Ryugyong Hotelis starting to get back to life. Egypt’s Orascom group has recentlybegun refurbishing the top floors of the tower. The company has putglass panels into the concrete shell and installed telecommunicationsantennas. South Korean estimations say that it would cost $2 billion tofinish the hotel and make it safe, that is the same as 10% annual GDPof North Korea.



6 – Maunsell Army Sea Forts
The Thames Estuary Army Forts were constructed in 1942 to a design byGuy Maunsell, following the successful construction and deployment ofthe Naval Sea Forts. Their purpose was to provide anti-aircraft firewithin the Thames Estuary area. Each fort consisted of a group of seventowers with a walkway connecting them all to the central control tower.The fort, when viewed as a whole, comprised one Bofors tower, a controltower, four gun towers and a searchlight tower. They were arranged in avery specific way, with the control tower at the centre, the Bofors andgun towers arranged in a semi-circular fashion around it and thesearchlight tower positioned further away, but still linked directly tothe control tower via a walkway. All the forts followed this plan and,in order of grounding, were called the Nore Army Fort, the Red SandsArmy Fort and finally the Shivering Sands Army Fort. All three fortswere in place by late 1943, but Nore is no longer standing.Construction of the towers was relatively quick, and they were easilyfloated out to sea and grounded in water no more than 30m (100ft) deep
this forts saw action during the Second World War,and there is no doubt that they proved their worth. So much so in factthat anti-aircraft command called for the construction of more seaforts on the Thames in the immediate post-war period, and various newfort designs were put forward.
The Fort was dismantled in 1959, but the Red Sands and Shivering SandsForts are still standing today. They have been used as pirate radiostations during the 60’s and 70’s, but since then have remainedabandoned.



7 – The Abandoned Pod City
The area is called San Zhi. There are no namedarchitects since the whole site was commissioned by the government andseveral local firms. They were trying to create a posh luxuriousvacation spot for the affluent and rich streaming out of Taipei. Nowthis is where things get weird. The local papers say there werenumerous accidents during its construction, and as news spread to theurbanites of the island state, nobody wanted to vacation there, muchless visit. Locals say the area is now haunted by those who died invain and because they are not remembered, they linger there unable topass on.

This explains why the area wasabandoned. If the site is haunted, no amount of redevelopment is goingto bring the masses to that spot. Even demolishing it is out of thequestion because destroying the homes of spirits and lost souls is aHUGE no-no in Asian culture

8 – Shipwrecks on the coast of Mauritania


The Bay of Nouadhibou, seven miles south from theMauritanian city, hides one the biggest ship cemeteries in the world.There are more than 300 wrecks around the harbour, resting for yearsand coming from all nations.

A brief walk through Google Maps will show youhundreds of skeletons piled here and there, at the biggest collectionof rusty giant ships you could ever imagine.

stargazers

PKFZ masuk tak dalam list nie?

phiyya

ooo...egtkn giant=makhluk..bangunan rupenye...

ctaz

WAHHHHH SUNGGUH MENYERAMKAN

starbee

menunjukkan mother nature lebih berkuasa dr ciptaan manusia. Allahu Akhbar...

fuel_i

wah..menarik!

tungkai

Good info :pompom:

Nak lagik

asher

smcm plak tgk hotel nie..

edy137

yang kapal2 terbengkalai tuhh dah takde badan2 atau institusi kerr yang nak leraikan atau jual atau buat laa ape2 dari terbengkalai cam tuhh ajerr... maybe ada material yang boleh digunakan semula, ataupun macam gambar kapal yang last tuhh... masih elok lagii... taknak bagi aku

pure_lady

erk...kurang paham sesetengahnye..haha

donut_1752

mmg beso2 blake

nazurah

9# edy137

kalau kat sini dah selamat body kapal tu...haha
tp mungkin berhantu kot org takut nk dekat...

alphawolf

9# edy137


Memang boleh masalahnya tersadai kat kawasan takde infrastruktur......maleh le depa nak salvage.....

edy137

kapal tuhh nak jual sayang.. tapi kalau dapat memang jadikan kapal persiaran kerr, jadikan kapal peribadi kerr... macam2 weih boleh buat ngn kapal tuhh dari biar ajerr kat situ... takde kerr millionaire yang berminat ngn kapal tuhh.... dia tanggung costing pengalihan, pembaikpulihan dan sebagainya.... ke memang dah takde dah kapal tuhh skang...

weta_studio

No 5 hotel kat north korea dah diperbaiki akan dibuka semula

dah cantik dan lawa hotel tu