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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">A landscape brings us to the great outdoors even if we are busy indoors, working or relaxing, chatting with friends or reviewing an important business deal. How inspiring it is to see the panorama of all that nature can offer, whether it is a stormy patch of weather which overhangs a mountaintop or the broad vista of cultivated fields that shows how much that mankind is dependent upon the land for our very existence.</span></span></h1>
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Find your Peace – Benches With a View

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10 Haunting Abandoned Railway Lines

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Despite being little more than strips of rusty metal laid atop rotting wooden sleepers, there’s something strangely romantic about abandoned railway lines – especially when the tracks are still in situ.  Whether it’s their proud industrial history or the lonely sight of their rails disappearing into the undergrowth, these 10 abandoned railroad lines to nowhere have a haunting appeal.  <strong>(Above: abandoned Waiorongomai Valley Tramway, New Zealand.)</strong></div>
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<strong>Abandoned railway line to Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia.</strong></div>
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<strong>Reading Viaduct, Philadelphia </strong></div>
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<strong>Abandoned Railway Bridge near Winzenhofen, Germany</strong></div>
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<strong>Abandoned Lerchenberg Tunnel, Heilbronn, Germany</strong></div>
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<strong>Abandoned Tracks at Mount Union, Pennsylvania, United States</strong></div>
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<strong>Abandoned Line to Cumnock, New South Wales, Australia</strong><br />
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<strong>The Old Line to Franschhoek, South Africa</strong></div>
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<strong>Wortley West Curve, South Yorkshire, UK</strong></div>
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<strong>Derelict Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture (“Little Belt Railway”), Paris, France</strong></div>
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10 Haunting Abandoned Railway Lines

Despite being little more than strips of rusty metal laid atop rotting wooden sleepers, there’s something strangely romantic about abandoned railway lines – especially when the tracks are still in si…

27 Aug 2014

Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland

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<span style="line-height: 1.35em;">Eilean Donan Castle is one of the most recognised castles in Scotland, and probably appears on more shortbread tins and calendars than any other.</span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">  </span><span style="line-height: 1.35em;">It is, without doubt, a Scottish icon and certainly one of the most popular visitor attractions in the Highlands.</span><span style="line-height: 1.35em;"> </span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.35em;">When you first set eyes on it, it is easy to understand why so many people flock to its stout doors year after year. Strategically located on its own little island, overlooking the Isle of Skye, at the point where three great sea-lochs meet, and surrounded by the majestic splendour of the forested mountains of Kintail, Eilean Donan’s setting is truly breath-taking.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.35em; text-align: justify;">Following their arrival in the ample car park, visitors arrive at the bright modern visitor centre which houses the Ticket Office, Gift Shop and Restaurant.</span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">  </span><span style="line-height: 1.35em; text-align: justify;">The entire operation is operated by the Conchra Charitable Trust which was established back in the 1980s by the MacRae family, who own the castle, and whose primary role is to preserve the building and its artefacts for the nation and future generations.</span></div>
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Crossing the bridge to today’s castle, the fourth version, you can clearly understand why Bishop Donan chose the tranquil spot back in 634AD to settle on it and create a monastic cell. The first castle was later established in the 13<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> century by Alexander <span style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">II</span> in an effort to help protect the area from Viking incursions. At this stage in history the original castle encompassed the entire island and is believed to have been constructed with seven towers connected by a massive curtain wall. Over the centuries, the castle contracted and expanded for reasons that still remain a mystery to this day, until 1719 when it was involved in one of the lesser known Jacobite uprisings. When the British Government learned that the castle was occupied by Jacobite leaders along with a garrison of Spanish soldiers, three Royal Navy frigates were sent to deal with the uprising. On the 10<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> of May 1719, the three heavily armed warships moored a short distance off the castle and bombarded it with cannon. With walls of up to 5 metres thick, these cannon had little impact, but eventually the castle was overwhelmed by force. Discovering 343 barrels of gunpowder inside, the Commanding officer gave orders to blow the castle up; following which Eilean Donan lay in silent ruin for the best part of two hundred years.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.35em;">The castle that visitors enjoy so much today was reconstructed as a family home between 1912 and 1932 by Lt Col John MacRae-Gilstrap, and incorporated much of the ruins from the 1719 destruction. At this point the bridge was added; a structure that is as much a part of the classic image as the very castle itself.</span></div>
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Visitors now have the opportunity to wander round most of the fabulous internal rooms of the castle viewing period furniture, Jacobean artefacts, displays of weapons and fine art. Historical interest and heritage are in abundance with informed guides happy to share a wealth of knowledge. Extremely popular with families, a visit to Eilean Donan promises lots of fun for the kids whether it be swinging a Claymore, spying through the spy holes, lifting the cannon balls, gazing at the fearsome portcullis or exploring the ancient battlements. Wildlife surrounds the island too, with regular viewings of porpoise, dolphins, otters and birdlife. For those feeling particularly romantic, weddings can even be arranged inside the beautiful Banqueting Hall.</div>
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Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland

Eilean Donan Castle is one of the most recognised castles in Scotland, and probably appears on more shortbread tins and calendars than any other. It is, without doubt, a Scottish icon and certainly …

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19 Magnificent Abandoned Places On Earth

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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 17.600000381469727px; text-align: center;">Meaning “Little Belt Railway”, the Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture was conceived in 1848 as a means of transporting and dispersing troops swifty around the city’s major fortifications. At a time of revolution in France and across Europe, the military became increasingly reliant on the expanding railway network.</span><br />
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Right in the middle of a small forest near Chatillon, a little village in Southern Belgium, is a graveyard of abandoned and beautiful rusty cars. These cars once belonged to US soldiers who were stationed in this region. It’s not known how they managed to acquire these beauties in the middle of the war. When the World War II ended, all military troops were sent back to the US, but the cost of having all those cars shipped was way too expensive. The ranking officers decided to leave all the cars in Belgium. The cars were driven up a hill, one by one, nicely parked and somehow hidden from the outside world.</div>
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Once back home in the US, the soldiers who wanted to retrieve their car had to take personal responsibility for all costs of the shipping. Not a single car was retrieved.</div>
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At one point there were four car graveyards around Chatillon, and as many as 500 vehicles. Only one remain today. Over time, corrosion and decay have worn down the vehicles and what little remained were stolen by the locals and car collectors.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Craco</b> is a ghost town and <i>comune</i> in the Province of Matera, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The old town was abandoned due to natural disasters. The abandonment has made Craco a tourist attraction and a popular filming location. In 2010, Craco has been included in the watch list of the World Monuments Fund.</span><br />
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<b>Lake Toplitz</b> (German: <i>Toplitzsee</i>) is a lake situated in a dense mountain forest high up in the Austrian Alps, 98 km (61 mi) from Salzburg in western Austria. It is surrounded by cliffs and forests in the Salzkammergut lake district, within the Totes Gebirge (dead mountains). The Toplitzsee water contains no oxygen below a depth of 20m. Fish can survive only in the top 18m, as the water below 20m is salty, although bacteria and worms have been found below 20m that can live without oxygen.</div>
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During 1943-44, the shore of Lake Toplitz served as a Nazi naval testing station. Using copper diaphragms, scientists experimented with different explosives, detonating up to 4,000 kg charges at various depths. They also fired torpedoes from a launching pad in the lake into the Tote Mountains, producing vast holes in the canyon walls. Millions of counterfeit pound sterling notes (£100+ million) were dumped in the lake after Operation Bernhard, which was never fully put into action. There is speculation that there might be other valuables to be recovered from the bottom of the Toplitzsee. The speculation is due to there being a layer of sunken logs floating half way to the bottom of the lake, making diving beyond it hazardous or impossible. Gerhard Zauner, one of the divers on the 1959 expedition reports that he saw a sunken aircraft below this layer.</div>
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The area is accessible only on foot by a mile-long path, as the K-Mautner-Weg is a private road that serves the Fisherman's Hut restaurant at the western end.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Curon in the tri-border region Italy-Austria-Switzerland comprises the Lago di Resia, Lago di S. Valentino and the Vallelunga valley.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The steeple that soars from the waters of the Lago di Resia is considered the symbol of the upper Val Venosta. However, the municipality of Curon has got much more to offer than Lake Resia and Lago di S. Valentino farther south.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In summer this area is particularly popular with those who love cycling as the Via Claudia Augusta is one of the most frequented cycle tracks of Europe, stretching down towards Merano. If you love mountaineering, we recommend you the Vallelunga and the Val Roja, where hiking trails and Alpine routes stretch up the three-thousanderes at the border to Switzerland. This is also where the famous Palla Bianca glacier is located.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also in winter Curon in Alta Val Venosta is worth a visit. With Maseben, Belpiano and Malga S. Valentino, the municipality offers three skiing areas and is in part also connected to Nauders farther north. Not yet satisfied? Ice sailing, snow kiting, ice surfing at Lago Resia and a horse-drawn sleigh ride across the fariytale winter landscape make your holidays in Alta Val Venosta a special experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">The Kerry Way was first proposed in 1982 and developed by members of the Laune Mountaineering Club and the Kerry association of </span>An Taisce<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">, under the chairmanship of Seán O Súilleabháin.</span><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> O Suilleabháin was inspired by a history lecture he had attended given by Father John Hayes on the subject of old roads and paths in the southwest of Ireland.</span><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> Realising that "there was a spider's web-like network of roads and paths that could be combined to form a route around Kerry", he began devising the trail that would become the Kerry Way.</span><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> The first section – from Killarney to </span>Glenbeigh<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> – was opened by </span>Tánaiste<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> </span>Dick Spring<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> in 1985.</span><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> It was the second long-distance trail to be opened in the Republic of Ireland, after the</span>Wicklow Way<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">.</span><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> The full route was completed in 1989 and opened by </span>Frank Fahey<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">, T. D., </span>Minister of State<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> for Youth and Sport.</span><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> The trail was constructed by workers on </span>FÁS<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> social employment schemes at a cost of </span>IEP<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> £60,000 and involved the provision of over 200 stiles and six footbridges as well as waymarkers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.600000381469727px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Japan’s abandoned theme park Gulliver’s Kingdom “…was located between Aokigarah and Kamikuishiki, two areas that have some of the most disturbing reputations in all of Japan. Aokigarah is better known to Westerners as “the suicide forest,” where around 100 people take their lives every year and annual searches are necessary to clear the area of all the corpses. Kamikuishiki was home to the Aum Shinriyko doomsday cult that was responsible for the 1995 Sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway that left 13 people dead. Aside from the ghastly reputation of Kamikuishiki, the village was plagued with the residual smell of the cult’s nerve gas factory  for up to five years after the factories were closed up—and the smell wafted all the way over to Gulliver’s Kingdom.” —Neatorama</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">15. Angkor Wat in Cambodia</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">Angkor Wat</b><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> (</span>Khmer<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">) was first a </span>Hindu<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">, then subsequently a </span>Buddhist<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">, temple complex in </span>Cambodia<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> and the largest religious monument in the world. The temple was built by the </span>Khmer<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> King </span>Suryavarman II<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> in the early 12th century in </span>Yaśodharapura<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> (</span>Khmer<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">: </span><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">present-day </span>Angkor<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">), the capital of the </span>Khmer Empire<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">, as his state temple and eventual mausoleum. Breaking from the </span>Shaiva<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> tradition of previous kings, Angkor Wat was instead dedicated to </span>Vishnu<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">. As the best-preserved temple at the site, it is the only one to have remained a significant religious center since its foundation. The temple is at the top of the high classical style of </span>Khmer architecture<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">. It has become a symbol of </span>Cambodia<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">,</span><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> appearing on </span>its national flag<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">, and it is the country's prime attraction for visitors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">16. 1984 Winter Olympics bobsleigh track in Sarajevo</span></h4>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">17. Hashima Island, Japan</span></h4>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">18. Sunken yacht in Antarctica</span></h4>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">19. Hafodunos Hall in Llangernyw, North Wales</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">Hafodunos Hall</b><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> is a </span>Gothic revival<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> house located near the village of </span>Llangernyw<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> in </span>Wales<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">. Designed by </span>Sir George Gilbert Scott<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">, it was built between 1861 and 1866 for Henry Robertson Sandbach, replacing a house that had been built in 1674.</span></span></div>
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19 Magnificent Abandoned Places On Earth

Nature reclaiming the mess we have left behind, there are very few things in the world that are as reassuring as the knowledge that no matter what we do as a race nature will always be there to recla…

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