Are you stuck in a bland office cubicle all day? Do you live in a tiny bedsit with screaming neighbours that keep you up all night? Well, here are some tourist attractions that might make you get down on your knees in gratitude for these simple things and the fact you’re still in one piece.
Miyakejima Island, Japan
This lush island is formed around Mount Oyama, a volcano which has erupted so many times that nobody was allowed to live here between 2000 and 2005.
Since then, returning inhabitants and curious tourists have had to carry gas masks with them at all times because the air is so sulphuric and regularly too toxic to breathe. Fresh!
El Camanito del Rey, Malaga, Spain
This walkway was built in 1905 to connect two nearby falls (Chorro Falls and Gaitanejo Falls) so that workers could transport materials between the two. Despite this practical need, El Caminito del Rey (The King’s Little Pathway in English) was inexplicably built to be only one metre wide whilst it clung to cliff faces more than 100 metres above a rock-strewn river.
Parts of the walkway have since fallen away, leaving people forced to make brave leaps if they wanted to proceed any further.
Due to some missteps and falls in recent years, the government has finally agreed to restore the crumbling old path into something that might not invite so many fatalities.
Prypiat, Ukraine
This city was completely abandoned after an accident at the nearby Chernobyl nuclear reactor in 1986 which left the area dangerously radioactive.
Ukrainian authorities have recently deemed that after a mere 20-odd years, the radiation levels have gone down just enough to allow visitors.
So if you want to walk around an irradiated ghost town full of rust, debris and broken dreams, this may just be the destination for you.
(Featured image: CarbonNYC)
