Berlin
A control tower was erected at West Berlin's Joachimsthaler Platz to manage car traffic in 1956.
Roads, highways and bridges
Discover haunting beauty and untold stories with our curated collection of stories and images from Europe's abandoned roads, highways, and bridges. Uncover the history hidden in forgotten paths.
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Berlin
Hardly anything remains of the Brommy Bridge over the Spree today. In 1945, the bridge was blown up by the German army to prevent the Red Army's advance.
Hainaut
A seven-hundred-meter long embankment, a splash of asphalt here and there, and two useless viaducts: cars will not immediately drive on the four-lane road of the N60 in Frasnes-lez-Anvaing.
Hainaut
Trucks and cars rush over the Estaimpuis bridge towards Kortrijk or Tournai. But under the bridge, you will only find a traffic-free meadow.
Antwerp
The steel lifting bridge above the Brussels-Scheldt sea canal is part of the legacy of the Société Anonyme des Ateliers de Construction de Willebroeck, once an internationally renowned constructor.
Brussels
At the end of the nineteenth century, a viaduct was constructed under one of the many access roads to the centre of Brussels for a road that has been removed from all street atlases today.
East Flanders
Since 1870, trains and pedestrians have been able to cross the Scheldt at Temse along a 343-meter-long bridge.
Iceland
The eruption of Iceland's Bárðarbunga volcano in November 1996 initially went unnoticed because it occurred under one of Europe's largest glaciers.
Berlin
In 1940, the A115, a highway straight through the Düppeler Forst west of Berlin, was built.
Iceland
The ring road route around Iceland once skirted the smaller glacial lake Fjallsarlon, but now only the bridge pillars remain.
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