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The City in the Sea That Everyone Left in Weeks (Hashima Island, 1974)

Off the coast of Japan, there is a city in the sea that everyone abandoned in a matter of weeks. From a distance, it looks like a battleship: a wall of grey concrete towers rising straight out of the ocean. Up close, it is an entire empty town, crumbling room by room.

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