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Visit Armero, Colombia
Armero is a municipality in the Tolima Department, Colombia. According to the National Department of Statistics of Colombia, 12,852 lived in the town in 2005. Its median temperature is 27 °C. It was founded in 1895, but was not officially recognized as the seat of the region until 29 September 1908, by President Rafael Reyes. The town was originally named San Lore... -
Visit Ashford Mill Ruins, Death Valley National Park, California
Ashford Mill is a former mining town settlement in Inyo County, California. It was located in Death Valley, at an elevation of 121 feet (37 m) below sea level. The place is now protected ruins within Death Valley National Park. The original mill at the site was built in 1914 by brothers named Ashford. The ore was processed here from the Golden Treasure Mine 5 miles to... -
Off-road to Aurora, Nevada
Aurora is a ghost town in Mineral County in the west central part of the US state of Nevada, approximately 22 mi (35 km) southwest of the town of Hawthorne, three miles from the California border. Today the townsite is much diminished, having been damaged by vandals. After World War II many of the buildings were razed for their brick. The road to Aurora was once diffi... -
Visit Austin (Nevada)
Austinis a small, unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lander County, Nevada, United States. In 2010, its population was 192. It is located on the western slopes of the Toiyabe Range at an elevation of 6,605 feet (2,013 m). U.S. Route 50 passes through the town. This area was long occupied by bands of the Western Shoshone people. The city of Austin... -
Visit Balaclava, Ontario
Balaclava is a community in the township of Bonnechere Valley, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. Balaclava is a near ghost town today, a come down from the bustling lumber town of its heyday. It was begun with a sawmill in 1855 and by the 1860s had acquired a blacksmith shop and hotel to go with its permanent residents. In 1903 a sawdust burner was built so that the sa... -
Visit Ballarat, Death Valley National Park, California
Ballarat is an unincorporated community in Inyo County, California. It lies at an elevation of 1079 feet (329 m). Today, Ballarat is a virtual ghost town. It was founded in 1896 as a supply point for the mines in the canyons of the Panamint Range. A quarter-mile to the south is Post Office Springs, a reliable water source used since the 1850s by prospectors and desert... -
Visit Bankhead Ghost Town, Banff National Park
Bankhead, Alberta was a small coal mining town that existed in the early twentieth century, in Banff National Park, near the town of Banff, Alberta. The mine was located at Cascade Mountain, which contains high grade anthracite coal deposits. The Bankhead coal mine was operated by the Pacific Coal Company, a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which needed the... -
Visit Bannack State Park, Montana
Bannack is a ghost town in Beaverhead County, Montana, United States, located on Grasshopper Creek, approximately 11 miles (18 km) upstream from where Grasshopper Creek joins with the Beaverhead River south of Dillon. Founded in 1862 and named after the local Bannock Indians, it was the site of a major gold discovery in 1862, and served as the capital of Montana Terri... -
Visit Barkerville, British Columbia, Canada
Barkerville was the main town of the Cariboo Gold Rush in British Columbia, Canada and is preserved as a historic town. It is located on the north slope of the Cariboo Plateau near the Cariboo Mountains 80 kilometres (50 mi) east of Quesnel along BC Highway 26, which follows the route of the original access to Barkerville, the Cariboo Wagon Road. In 1958, the governme... -
Explore Beelitz Heilstatten Military Hospital, Beelitz, Germany
Beelitz-Heilstätten is home to a large hospital complex of about 60 buildings including a cogeneration plant erected from 1898 on according to plans of architect Heino Schmieden. Originally designed as a sanatorium by the Berlin workers' health insurance corporation, the complex from the beginning of World War I on was a military hospital of the Imperial German A... -
Visit Belchite, Spain
Belchite is a village in the province of Zaragoza, Spain, about 40 km southeast of Zaragoza. It is the capital of Campo de Belchite comarca and is located in a plain surrounded by low hills, the highest of which is Lobo. The area around Belchite is one of the most arid places of Aragon. In 1122 Alfonso the Battler founded the Confraternity of Belchite to defend the fr... -
Visit Belmont Ghost Town, Nevada
Simular to many of the historic cities in old Nevada, the grand, bustling city of Belmont has dwindled into one of the state’s more iconic ghost towns. The town started off after a silver strike in 1865. The town reached its largest population at 2,000 and included four stores, two saloons, five restaurants, livery stable, a post office, an assay office, a ban... -
Visit Berlin (Nevada)
The Berlin Historic District encompasses the ghost town of Berlin, Nevada. The town was established in 1897 as part of the Union Mining District following the opening of the Berlin Mine the previous year. The town never prospered to the same extent as other boom towns like Tonopah and Goldfield, and declined following the Panic of 1907. The town was largely abandoned ... -
Visit Berlin Olympic Village, Elstal, Germany
The Berlin Olympic Village was built between 1934 and 1936 and is located in Estal, Germany on the western edge of Berlin. The site, which was 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the centre of the city, consisted of one to two floor dormitories, dining areas, a swimming pool, and training facilities. During the Second World War, it was used as a hospital for injured Wehrmacht ... -
Visit Betoota, Queensland
Betoota is a ghost town within the locality of Birdsville, in the Shire of Diamantina, in the Channel Country of Central West Queensland, Australia. The last permanent resident, Sigmund Remienko, died in 2004. Betoota is situated on a gibber plain (a stony desert plain) 170 kilometres (110 mi) east of Birdsville and 227 kilometres (141 mi) west of Windorah. The town h...
