Belgian coast The forgotten Aviator's Chapel More than a hundred years ago, on May 12, 1917, the biplane of Count Paul de Goussencourt and Lieutenant de Cubber thundered from the sky during a firefight above Kaaskerke, a small town part of Diksmuide. Both died instantly.
Germany Abandoned Soviet airport Crumbling Soviet statues look with sorrow at the decline of one of the most important bases of the Russian air force in East Germany: the Pütnitz airport in Damgarten.
Berlin The mother of all airports Ever since 1923, Tempelhof has seen airplanes come and go. The airports of Paris, Amsterdam and London disappeared into thin air next to the number of flight movements in Berlin. The terminal quickly became too small.
Iceland Wreckage of crashed C-47 SkyTrain On November 21, 1973, the American plane C-47 SkyTrain made an emergency landing on the beach south of Iceland due to bad weather and fuel shortages.
Italy Abandoned airport by the sea The 1.5 kilometer-long runway of Tortoli-Arabatax airport ends a few meters short of San Gemiliano beach.
Berlin Aviation history and railway yard in Karlshorst Karlshorst not only has a former airport in store but also a vanished zeppelin shed and a railway yard that has been transformed into a landscape park.
Six blast furnaces you can visit today In the early nineteenth century, the industrial revolution swept across continental Europe and one steelworks after another rose from the ground. Europe had hundreds of blast furnaces, but since the mid-twentieth century, Europe's steel industry has been slowly going downhill.