FAMOUS Tourist Attractions That No Longer Exist Because We've Destroyed Them

tourism as we understand it today is a relatively recent phenomenon men of leisure and aristocrats have been able to travel for recreation for millennia but not often very far and since the advent of steam ships people have been able to travel the world but again only the wealthy and not in large numbers but now with commercial air travel tourism has become widespread and a major global industry recreational travel is no longer the purview of the upper classes and the fabulously wealthy but it all comes with a cost on the environment fact feed presents breathtaking tourist attractions that no longer exist because we've destroyed them boomed azov' have you ever been in Paris for a dozens of other cities around the world and noticed all the bridges covered in padlocks the locks were placed there by couples to symbolize their love because well I don't know why but the routine is to write your names on the lock and toss the key into the river kind of a cute idea well until everybody started doing it and then you get a swarm of locks obscuring the side of the bridge and perhaps this has been no more problematic than with pom diese beginning around 2008 this recognizable pedestrian bridge over the Seine has become increasingly engulfed by padlocks in June of 2014 part of the parapet of the bridge collapsed under the weight of all the padlocks in 2015 USA Today reported that there were over a million locks weighing approximately 45 tons Parisian city workers occasionally remove all the locks from a panel or replace a panel entirely with a solid surface to which a lock cannot be attached the Parisian government has even run campaigns imploring tourists to do away with this dumb ritual why at a Falls although sometimes known as Seven Falls Gua Rita Falls was located on the peddanna river that divides Paraguay and Brazil and was actually a series of 18 waterfalls while not the tallest in the world at 114 meters high it was one of the most powerful the volume of water per second was twice that of Niagara and the deafening sound could be heard from up to 30 kilometers away the natural wonder attracted hordes of tourists each year but that wasn't enough to save it from demolition by the Brazilian Army in 1982 in order to create the it tapu dam still the largest operating hydroelectric plant by annual electricity production tourists flocked to the Falls in the final months eager for a last look and in January 1982 this popularity resulted in an unfortunate tragedy a crowded bridge collapsed killing 80 people still this disaster didn't stop hundreds of people from gathering to participate in a 14-day ritual goodbye to the Falls vidum park vidum park also known as amusement park of Budapest occupied the same grounds for a hundred and seventy-five years in that time the park survived fires World War two bombings communism and multiple redesigns but waning attendance in recent years left the park economically crippled season attendance had dropped from 2.7 million at its peak in the 1970s to fewer than 300,000 and 2012 news of a permanent closure started swirling in 2010 but the park lasted until 2013 when it finally shut its gates for good in early October the nearby zoo will likely absorb the land but some of the rides will be protected for their historic value a Halawa zoos wooden roller coaster built in 1922 a carousel from 1906 and a cave Railway from 1912 wedding-cake Rock named for its striking white appearance wedding-cake rock has long been a popular spot for dramatic photos by pros and tourists alike but last year officials noticed a dramatic uptick in visitors roughly 2,000 visitors a month became 10,000 when daredevil shots of Yogi's and thrill-seekers started circulating on Instagram by then at least one person had died falling from the photogenic cliff a temporary fence was installed in May 2015 in an it to forestall any further disaster and the regulations are unlikely to be relaxed after a report this summer revealed that the perilous formation could collapse any time in the next decade shackle Tyre glacier the altitude effects from being a top shackle tire Mountain kept Bolivia's only ski resort from ever becoming overly popular but for serious thrill-seekers who didn't mind the remote location accessible only by a dirt road the world's highest ski resort was a bucket list destination until it melted starting in the 1990s scientists noticed that rising temperatures from climate change were causing the glacier atop shackle taya to melt at an alarming rate experts predicted that it would disappear by 2015 but even that was an underestimation in 2009 the snow and the superlative ski run disappeared for good this was bad news for more than just snow sport enthusiasts the glaciers of the Andes are the source of drinking water and hydroelectric power for more than 80 million people in the area the original Penn Station the original Pennsylvania station completed in 1910 was more than just a bustling hub in the first half of the 20th century it was also a magnificent beaux-arts landmark to rival Grand Central designed by McKim Mead and white the architectural firm responsible for Theodore Roosevelt era renovations to the White House the above-ground portion of the terminal was inspired by the Acropolis the Brandenburg Gate st. Peter's Basilica the Roman baths and the Bank of England at the turn of the century the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest corporation in the world and it's New York station was fittingly impressive built to accommodate 200,000 passengers per day for up to a hundred years but the landmark didn't last that long at the peak of the Train travel in mid 1940s Penn Station welcomed 109 million people a year into New York City automobile and air travel surged railroad traffic suffer and the company was left strapped for cash they sold the airspace above the platform's to a local real estate firm in 1954 concerned citizens protested the plans for a stadium but to no avail demolition began on October 28th 1963 which the New York Times called an act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance Jonah's tomb Jonah's tomb in Mosul Iraq is the newest addition to this list and one of a series of attractions lost to war militants with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or Isis planted explosives in July 2014 around Mosul's oldest mosque which is traditionally held to be the burial place of Jonah the prophet Jonah is a key figure in both Christianity and Islam who according to Islamic and judeo-christian traditions was swallowed by a whale his tomb was a popular place of pilgrimage and joins a growing list of holy sites deemed idolatrous under the puritanical strain of Islam practiced by Isis boom Lake sitting in the midst of Cambodia's capital Panem pen bone leg was the largest and most important urban wetland in the country it was a popular place for visitors to watch sunsets over the lake while locals also fished it for food however in February 2007 the Cambodian government struck a 79 million dollar lease agreement with a construction firm shukaku by 2010 more than 90 percent of the lake had been filled with sand and once extensive wetland now appears to be little more than a puddle yosemite s fire falls dating back to 1872 a nightly summer ritual took place from the top of Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park staff at the old Glacier Point Hotel would create large fires and burn them down to piles of red hot embers before shoveling them off the precipice to those watching from the valley below the falling embers looked like a massive waterfall of fire cascading down the imposing cliff face although the origins of this tradition are murky some say it was originally used by Native Americans while others say settlers used it as a way of disposing of their rubbish it attracted large crowds in later years in January 1968 however the National Park Service ordered it to be discontinued over concerns at the damage being done by the large number of visitors it attracted in 2012 artist Adam frelling recreated the display but it has not been repeated since grot data school cave paintings discovered in 1940 a gallery of more than 600 paintings and 1500 engravings had lain hidden underground for more than 17,000 years they depict a vast menagerie of animals hunts by human figures and abstract signs painted on to the soft limestone this Paleolithic art is thought to have been the cumulative effort of more than 1,000 generations at a time when our ancestors were still hunter-gatherers yet the magic of great day Alaska has also been its undoing as procession after procession of visitors have traipsed into the caves to view the masterpieces they have carried heat humidity carbon dioxide and other contaminants that have altered the climate within

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Published: Wed Jan 09 2019