Apart from defense, other purposes of the Great Wall have included border controls, allowing the imposition of duties on goods transported along the Silk Road, regulation or encouragement of trade and the control of immigration and emigration.
Battleship island in Japan. The entire island housed 3x what it should have, and managed it by putting them in obscenely crowded apartments like this. Now, the entire island is abandoned, and is restricted to the public. These derelict sky-scraping g
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Cedar shingles cured by the salt air, window brackets borrowed from the 1880s main house, a sunny balcony, and a shady elm give the former garage a storybook look.The entry lights and cast-iron front step are salvaged finds.
Abandoned Indiana school While going down 26 in Howard. Co. I spotted this across the open field. I thought it was going to be another plain one room school house, but I did not expect it to have personality! I thought it was cute, even in its curre