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Beautiful Abandoned Places and Ghost Towns

Beautiful Abandoned Places and Ghost Towns
Abandoned places and things of the past fascinate me. Here are a selection of my favourite ghost towns and disused buildings/theme parks. Please feel free to share yours in the comments or with us on twitter @pixel_clouds! An unfinished hotel haunts a Spanish coastline This abandoned water park in Russia was never completed Japan’s Abandoned Amusement Park Częstochowa, Poland’s abandoned train depot 1984 Winter Olympics bobsleigh track in Sarajevo El Hotel del Salto in Colombia Merle Spurrier Gymnasium Pool – University of Rochester (Chris Seward) Disused Cooling Tower of a Power Plant, Belgium Taipingshan National Forest in Taiwan Broken Wooden Bridge, Pittsburgh Little Belt Railway – Paris, France Abandoned amusement park, Dunaújváros, Hungary Six Flags Amusement park, New Orleans Hubei province, China Dadipark, Dadizele, Belgium Taken by the tides Kadykchan, Russia Kowloon Walled City Hashima Island, Japan Sanzhi UFO houses, Taiwan A short film about post-apocalyptic hell-hole, the Salton Sea

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Making the Princess Fort The princess fort is a central hub of activity in our house. Every night, the three of us crawl in to cuddle (we don't have much of a choice in there) and read bedtime stories before Sadie goes to bed. It's a prime "hide-and-seek" location, and Sadie has even spent the night under there on her pillow mattress. We love it! The basic ingredients are: - Kura Bed - Curtain - Curtain Rod (we used a shower curtain tension rod) - Comfyness (pillow mattress, pillows, blankets, etc.) - Bookshelves (or toys) - String lights Pennants (just added) = fabric from Joanne. (Use the slats - the ceiling of the princess fort is valuable real estate!) The little lacy ruffly things that you see in the pillow fort is the bottom of the canopy! So there you have it...I think the underneath of the Kura bed has awesome potential.

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