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      • Monument to the Unforeseen: Kasteel Almere
    • Tenerife, the geology of mass tourism
      • A modernist time capsule: hotel Valle de Güímar
      • Operation Madness: Mesa del Mar
      • Dragged into the ocean: Hotel Neptuno
      • The Runway Saint: the cave of Hermano Pedro
    • Nazi Germany, the national socialist landscape
      • The epicenter of Blut und Boden: Bückeberg
      • A school for little Führers: Horst Wesselhalle
      • A fake village as a stage set for Germanic theatre: Stedingsehre
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An African Beach on Tenerife

Playa de Teresita is an artificial beach on Tenerife made of African sand
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Playa de las Teresitas is the city beach of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. A ten-minute drive past oil […]

Posted on 20 maart 202625 maart 2026 Tenerife

Sachsenhain, the Secret Sanctuary of the SS

Sachsenhain, the secret sanctuary of the ss
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Just outside Verden, on the edge of the marshy floodplains of the Weser, the Sachsenhain lies silent beneath thin autumn light. On […]

Posted on 13 maart 202625 maart 2026 nazi germany

Operation Madness: Mesa del Mar

Mesa del Mar is a former hotel build as an artificial coastal rock pounded by the ocean
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The wild surf of the Atlantic Ocean pounds relentlessly against the north coast of Tenerife. For millions of […]

Posted on 6 maart 202612 maart 2026 Tenerife

Monument to the Unforeseen: Kasteel Almere

almere castle is unfinished, a ruin and a forgotten urbex place
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In the new land that, barely a generation and a half ago, still lay several metres underwater, stands […]

Posted on 27 februari 202612 maart 2026 Promised Land: Dutch artificial landscapes

The Runway Saint: the cave of Hermano Pedro

saint, tenerife, airport, tourism architecture, landscape, pilgrimage, latin America, Guatemala,
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Tenerife has many sacred sites, but none as unusual as the Cave of Hermano Pedro. Just off the TF-1 […]

Posted on 20 februari 202612 maart 2026 Tenerife

A modernist time capsule: hotel Valle de Güímar

a 1960's hotel frozen in time overlooking güímar valley, not an urbex place but a preserved. modernist architectural icoon of the early mass tourisme
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In a sharp bend, high on the slope of the deep Ladera de Güímar valley, stands a forgotten […]

Posted on 13 februari 202612 maart 2026 Tenerife

Dragged into the ocean: Hotel Neptuno

hotel Neptune is a urbex place on the canary island Tenerife that is slowly dragged into the ocean by erosion
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Above the winding coastal road between Bajamar and Punta del Hidalgo, the rugged cliffs of the Anaga Mountains […]

Posted on 6 februari 202612 maart 2026 Tenerife

The epicenter of Blut und Boden: Bückeberg

the Blut und boden landscape of the Weser river was the stage set for the mass rallies of the Nazi's farmers organization
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Because the farmers stood closest to the earth, to the soil, they formed the front-line soldiers of the […]

Posted on 30 januari 202612 maart 2026 nazi germany

A fake village as a stage set for Germanic theatre: Stedingsehre

stedingehre is a fake village contracten as a decor for Germanic festivals
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At the Oranjekazerne (Arnhem, NL) near my home lie two “fake villages,” built between 1940 and 1942 to […]

Posted on 23 januari 202612 maart 2026 nazi germany

A school for little Führers: Horst Wesselhalle

Eagle on the wall of the Horst Wessel Halle, part of the nazi Schulungsburg in Erwitte
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Between 1934 and 1936, Schloss Erwitte was transformed into Schulungsburg. Several buildings were added for this cadres’ school […]

Posted on 16 januari 202612 maart 2026 nazi germany
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