5 Cryptic Places Locked in Time

On this episode, we'll take a look at 5 Cryptic Places Locked in Time.

5. Hashima Island
This island commonly called Gunkanjima or the english translation being Battleship Island is located 9 miles or 15 km from Nagasaki, Japan and is surrounded by a large concrete wall. Mitsubishi bought the island in 1890 and setup Hashima as a coal mine town which lasted from 1887 to 1974. Hashima Island was an important part of the industrialization of Japan, by 1959 there was 5259 people living on the island. After the emergence of petroleum in the 1960s many of the coal mines in Japan started to shut down.

4. Tkvarcheli, Georgia
Located in Abkhaz Georgia, Tkvarcheli was built next to the Ghalidzga river. Now technically Tkvarcheli is apart of The Autonomous Republic of Abkhaz, a separate country but this country is only recognized by 5 other countries. The rest of the world just considers Tkvarcheli to be apart of the Abkhaz region of Georgia.

3. Salton Riviera, California
This abandoned lake front community is 60 miles or 97 km from Palm Springs, California. Salton Lake, or technically Salton Sea is the largest lake in California making it the choice location for a resort community. This saline, endorheic rift lake is located above the San Andreas Fault. The resort was built in the 1950s bringing in 4.25 million dollars in lot sales it’s opening weekend. Most of the lots purchased were for investment only and were never developed though. Hollywood celebrities, politicians all wanted a piece of the new desert oasis. At the peak population of Salton Riviera had 15,000 people living there. This resort was very popular in the 1960s and 70s, with a thriving community of relaxing, water skiing, boating and swimming. Everything was well and good until the 1970s thousands of fish started surfacing dead. This was caused by agricultural run off.

2. Pripyat, Ukraine
Located in the Kiev region of Ukraine, Prypiat is located on the Pripyat river near the board of Belarus. This city was home to those who worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The city was set up as Kiev, the closest city to Chernobyl is 79 miles or 127 km away, making for a very long commute daily. Pripyat was constructed starting in 1970 making it the 9th nuclear power plant city in the Soviet Union and Chernobyl itself is one of largest nuclear plants in Europe. The population of Pripyat just before the Chernobyl nuclear disaster was 49,400 which seems like a lot but the city was planned to hold up to 78,000 people. Pripyat was a fully functioning city with multiple apartment blocks, a gymnasium, movie theatre, discotheque, sports field, and amusement park. Chernobyl melted down on April 26th, 1986 and since then Pripyat has been completely abandoned. The only people who go there are tourists and scientists.

Neft Dashlari / Oil Rocks
This industrial settlement located 62 miles or 100 km from Baku, the capital Azerbaijan was the first operating oil platform in the world. The city started with a single oil rig and exponentially grew to the size of a city built entirely on top of the sea. The city was constructed on top of sunken ships including the world’s first oil tanker the Zoraster, as well as landfill waste. It is located 6 hours from the nearest shore had 2000 operating oil rigs and 186 miles or 300 km of bridges all connected together. Joseph Stalin started the construction of the city in 1949 after engineers found that sweet black gold deep in the Caspian Sea. Construction was at a rapid pace during this time, the community motto was “every day, build one new span of a bridge”.
During its peak years the population of Neft Dashlari was 5000 but today is only 2500. The city is still a functioning oil platform but most of the oil rigs are out of commission. Only 15% of the roadways are useable today making it impossible to even reach many of the oil rigs. During Neft Dashlari’s prime years there were a few attractions residents would enjoy like a soccer field, cinema, lemonade factory, and tree filled park. Apparently the Soviet’s like their lemonade. A large flood came through a few years ago submerging apartment buildings up to the second floor.

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