探索那些被时间遗忘的地方。世界各地被遗弃的、神秘的、沉睡的纪念碑已被置于历史的边缘，被推离地图，消失在人们的视线之外。
从古老的废墟和摇摇欲坠的城堡，到最近的遗迹——一个装饰艺术的纽约地铁站，北极圈的苏联鬼城，充斥着水生生物的泰国购物中心——特拉维斯·埃尔伯勒带你进入这些奇怪、被忽视和消失的世界，让他们的命运永垂不朽。
特拉维斯·埃尔伯勒（Travis Elborough）对每一处遗址的历史和地理描述，都伴随着原始地图和令人惊叹的彩色照片。这本调查书中的描述有助于让他们的故事重现，告诉我们发生了什么，什么时候发生了什么，为什么发生了什么，发生在谁身上。
这本书有40个网站，包括
美国亚利桑那州的圣诞老人：一个节日旅游胜地变成了沙漠深处的鬼城，在那里你可以在一年中的任何一天见到圣诞老人；
水晶宫地铁，伦敦，英国：这座城市最保守的秘密之一是一个地下的、像教堂一样的遗迹，许多维多利亚时代的通勤者从这里匆匆穿过；
西印度群岛蒙特塞拉特：加勒比小岛，人口5000人，1995年火山爆发时被疏散。火山仍在活动，近一半的岛屿仍然是指定的禁区；
克里米亚巴拉克拉瓦潜艇基地：前苏联最高机密的潜艇基地，所有官方地图都没有显示，被称为825 GTS目标；
意大利托斯卡纳沃尔特拉精神病医院：这个长期关闭的精神病院曾被称为“不归路之地”，收容了6000名从未被允许离开的病人。
Atlas of Forgotten Places: Journey to Abandoned Destinations from Around the Globe
Explore the places that time forgot. Abandoned, mysterious, sleeping monuments around the world have been relegated to the margins of history, pushed off the map and out of sight.
From ancient ruins and crumbling castles to more recent relics – an art deco New York subway station, a Soviet ghost town in the Arctic Circle, a flooded Thai mall teeming with aquatic life – Travis Elborough takes you on a journey into these strange, overlooked and disappearing worlds and immortalises their fates.
Original maps and stunning colour photography accompany Travis Elborough’s moving historic and geographic accounts of each site. The featured locations are a stark reminder of what was, and the accounts in this investigative book help to bring their stories back to life, telling us what happened, when and why, and to whom.
The book features 40 sites, including
Santa Claus, Arizona, USA: A festive tourist resort turned ghost town deep in the desert where once you could meet Santa Claus any day of the year;
Crystal Palace Subway, London, UK: One of the city’s best-kept secrets is an underground, cathedral-like relic from where many Victorian commuters bustled through;
Montserrat, West Indies: The small Caribbean island with a population of 5,000 that was evacuated when its volcano erupted in 1995. The volcano is still active and nearly half the island remains a designated exclusion zone;
Balaklava Submarine Base, Crimea: The former top-secret Soviet submarine base that was kept off all official maps and known as Object 825 GTS;
Volterra Psychiatric Hospital, Tuscany, Italy: Once dubbed ‘the place of no return’, this long-closed lunatic asylum once housed 6,000 patients who were never allowed to leave.
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