John Gimlette

The world’s best wrecks and ruins

Oliver Smith takes us on a tour of train graveyards, bunkers, ghost towns, crumbling palaces – and a 7,000-bedroom hotel in North Korea that never even opened

Sans Souci Palace, ‘the Versailles of the Caribbean’, built by Henri I of Haiti in 1810-13 [Alamy]

  • Atlas of Abandoned Places: A Journey Through the World’s Forgotten Wonders

    Oliver Smith

    Mitchell Beazley, pp. 224, £20

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