十個被世人和時間遺忘的地方(下)

, Belgium

5.都爾，比利時

The town of Doel is 700 years old, but in an effort to expand the nearby harbor, the Belgian government scheduled the town for demolition and forced its residents to move. Subsequently, Doel turned into a ghost town, silently awaiting its demolition. The few citizens who refused to leave took an unusual stand against their predicament, bringing in street artists from all over Europe and encouraging them to turn Doel into their personal canvas as a form of end result was spectacular, as the walls of the all-but-abandoned town transformed into a life-size living art gallery. The contrast between the old, historic buildings and the layers of modern graffiti that adorn them is breathtaking. Only 25 residents remain in this post-apocalyptic artistic paradise, and their future in Doel looks bleak. Demolition is still on the horizon, and they'll all have to leave once the wrecking ball comes.

都爾鎮已有700年的歷史，但是爲擴建附近的港口，比利時政府計劃拆除小鎮並強迫當地居民搬遷。突然間都爾變成了一座廢棄的小鎮，靜靜地等待被拆除。有少部分的居民拒絕離開並進行了一些反抗——鼓勵來自歐洲各地的街頭藝術家將小鎮當作自己的畫布進行塗鴉，以此表示抗議。最終的結果是令人驚奇的，因爲小鎮房子的外牆都被畫成了實物大小的生活藝術畫廊。陳舊的古建築和牆面的現代塗鴉形成了新明的對比，將小鎮裝飾得令人驚歎不已。迄今爲止，只有25個居民居住在這座仿若來自後末世時代的藝術天堂，而他們在都爾的未來似乎也是暗淡無望——拆除仍舊隨時會到來，他們都將在破碎球（一種拆遷用的設備）到來前離開。

Palms, Hawaii

4.可可棕櫚度假村，夏威夷

Known as the setting for the classic film Blue Hawaii, the island resort of Coco Palms is anything but a tropical paradise. The resort opened in 1953, and thanks to some marketing for the film Miss Sadie Thompson by MGM, business did not take long to pick up. However, once Elvis Presley arrived to film the instant hit Blue Hawaii, the resort became a runaway success. Couples from all over the globe, including A-list celebrities, wanted to spend their vacations and honeymoons on Elvis's island a few decades, it appeared that Coco Palms was here to stay, but in 1992, it fell victim to Hurricane Iniki. Most of the island was badly hit, and the resort couldn't escape the colossal repair bills. Many insurance companies went bankrupt in the aftermath of the storm, so many repairs could not even be performed. This sent the whole island into a recession, from which the resort would never l in tatters from the storm, the property was soon overtaken by vandals and thieves. Cottage 56, the suite where Elvis stayed, was an especially popular target. Although many redevelopment and restoration plans have been proposed, the resort is still a long way from recapturing its glory days.

作爲經典電影《藍色夏威夷》的拍攝地而出名，這座島的度假村——可可棕櫚度假村——是一個熱帶天堂。度假村於1953年開放，由於和米高梅電影製片公司拍攝的《薩蒂·湯普森小姐》有着貿易往來，業務上很快步入了正軌。但當埃爾維斯·普雷斯利來到這，併成功出演了《藍色夏威夷》後，度假村獲得了巨大的成功。來自世界各地的情侶們，包括一流名人，都想在貓王的天堂島嶼度假或度蜜月。很顯然，幾十年後它依舊存在。直到1992年，這座度假村淪落爲伊尼基颶風的犧牲品。島上大部分設施都被毀壞，度假村也無法避免巨大的修理賬單。許多保險公司在暴風雨後都宣佈破產，導致很多修理無法完成，這使整座島都陷入了經濟危機，度假村自那時起再也沒有恢復。島上被暴風雨破壞得支離破碎，財產很快被突然來襲的破壞分子和偷盜者掠奪走。56號小屋，貓王曾經待過的地方，是最受歡迎的目標。雖然許多重建和修復計劃已經被提議，但度假村離重現輝煌還會有一段不短的時間。

Guns, Arizona

3.雙槍小鎮，美國亞利桑那州

The story behind Two Guns, originally called Canyon Lodge, is a sad one. It all started in the 1920s, when the infamous Route 66 gained massive traffic from adventurous travelers. Many of these travelers stopped for supplies at Canyon Lodge, which was just a small trading post run by Earle and Louise Cundiff at the time. The town's success quickly caught the attention of the entrepreneur Harry "Two Guns" Miller, who recognized the the vast amounts of wealth to be gained there. He convinced the Cundiffs to lease him the site for 10 years and renamed the town. Under Miller's command, the town was transformed into a full-blown tourist trap, complete with its own zoo and attractions. One of these so called "attractions" was a nearby canyon, which was the site of a battle between the Apaches and the Navajos. Inside the canyon was a cave called the Apache Death Cave, which served as a tomb for 42 Apache men. Although the cave's backstory is fascinating in its own right, Miller decided that it wasn't intriguing enough for his tourists. He renamed it "Mystery Cave," built fake ruins, sold the Apache skulls as souvenirs, and perhaps most egregiously, added a soda town soon fell victim to a major robbery, which made relations between Miller and the Cundiffs very tense, culminating in a heated argument during which Miller shot Earle Cundiff dead. Incredibly, Miller was acquitted at trial, but shortly thereafter, he was attacked twice by mountain lions and bitten by a Gila monster. This trail of bad luck finally reached a tipping point in 1929, when a fire burned down the whole town. After losing a court battle with Louise Cundiff to keep the land, Miller left. Route 66 was rerouted to the opposite canyon, and Two Guns slowly faded into obscurity, its golden days long behind it.

雙槍小鎮最初叫做峽谷旅社，其背後隱藏着一個悲傷的故事。一切都始於1920年，鮮爲人知的66號公路開始迎來大批的旅遊探險者，其中大部分人會在峽谷旅社做短暫逗留，進行物資補充。當時，厄爾和路易斯·坎迪夫經營着這家小商棧。小鎮的成功很快引起了哈里米勒（又被稱爲"雙槍米勒"，原因未知）的注意，認爲其中隱藏着巨大的財富。他說服坎迪夫將這個地方租給他10年並給小鎮換了個名字。在米勒的操控下，小鎮轉變成一所十足的黑店，包括當地的動物園和景點。景點中有一處是附近的山谷，是阿帕奇人和納瓦霍人交戰的地方。峽谷中有一個洞穴，被稱爲"阿帕奇人的死亡洞穴"，是42名阿帕奇人的墓室。雖說墓穴背後的故事本身已經很有魅力了，但米勒還是認爲它不夠吸引旅遊者的興趣。他給它起名爲"神祕的洞穴"，建造成被毀滅的假象，並將阿帕奇族的頭骨當紀念品銷售，也許更過分的是他在那邊設立了一個蘇打水站。小鎮很快淪落爲一場大型搶劫案的犧牲品，這一度讓米勒和坎迪夫的關係非常緊張。他們中間發生過激烈的爭論，最終事情因米勒擊殺坎迪夫而告一段落。難以置信的是，米勒在審判中被無罪釋放。不過很快他先後遭到兩次美洲獅的攻擊並被吉拉毒蜥（美國最出名的蜥蜴）咬到。黴運最終在1929年達到了臨界點——一場大火燒光了整座小鎮。在與路易斯·坎迪夫打了一場官司，輸掉了土地的所有權後，米勒離開小鎮。66號公路後改道到對面的峽谷，雙槍小鎮也逐漸沒落，輝煌日子已離它很遠了。

Cinema At The End Of The World

2.世界盡頭的電影院

In the middle of the Sinai desert lies a mysterious cinema that never saw an audience. Information about this place is very scarce, and it leaves us with more questions than oddly situated setup was built by a French film buff named Diynn Eadel in the 1990s. Somehow, Eadel managed to secure the necessary building permits and convinced Parisian investors to buy seats and projectors from the old theaters of Cairo. The resulting arrangement, which would seat 700 people, sadly never saw an opening night, and no one seems to know why. The theater might have gone unnoticed for years had it not gathered attention from the media recently after it was vandalized and destroyed, most likely for scrap metal.

西奈沙漠的中部存在一個神祕的電影院，從未見過一個觀衆。有關這個地方的信息很少，和答案相比，它留給我們的是更多的疑惑。電影院奇怪的位置設置是由一位法國的電影迷Diynn Eadel在1990年建造而成的。他設法獲得了建築許可並說服法國的投資者從開羅舊電影院購置了一批椅子和投影設施，最終佈置成可容納700人觀影的電影院。可惜不知爲何從未進行過首映。這座影院淡出人們的視線幾年了，一直未得到媒體的關注，直到它被破壞得像破銅爛鐵一樣。

on Riviera, California

1.索爾頓海岸，加利福尼亞

Looking as if it came straight out of a post-apocalyptic world, the Salton Riviera is one of the most awe-inspiring locations on Earth. It was built around the Salton Sea, the largest body of water in California, which was amazingly created by accident when a flood poured in from the Colorado River over the course of two years at the turn of the thought that the floodwater would eventually dry out, but years went by seemingly without a drop of evaporation. Developers soon recognized the opportunity the lake presented and built a full-fledged resort upon it, advertised as the "Miracle in the Desert." The Salton Sea, as it had been named, became the French Riviera of California. Tourists flocked to the resort from all over the country, and many even settled down in a place that had once been uninhabitable desert. However, this paradise would not last forever. Since the lake was only fed by agricultural runoff, the water became increasingly saltier over the years. Millions of dead fish floated to the surface of the lake, whose white sandy beaches were soon covered in their bones. All the tourists fled from the town, which had become overpowered by the stench of rotten fish. Almost overnight, the Salton Riviera was abandoned, left to become the toxic wasteland that it is today.

索爾頓海岸看上去就像是從後末世時代走出來的一樣，它是地球上最讓人驚歎的地方之一。建於索爾頓海周圍，是加利福尼亞最大的貯水池。20世紀初，由於一次重大的工程失誤，使科羅拉多河的水盡數流向了這裏，歷時兩年，人們才止住了水。很多人認爲這洪水最終會乾涸，但很多年過去，這裏依舊沒有一點要蒸發的跡象。開發商很快意識到這座湖的機遇，提出在此建造設施齊全的度假村，並以"沙漠中的奇蹟"做爲宣傳，至此這片湖被稱爲"索爾頓海"，變成了加利福尼亞的裏維埃爾（原位法國裏維埃爾）。在這片曾經是不毛之地的沙漠，城裏的遊客蜂擁而致，很多人在這裏定居。但是好景不長，自從湖水只靠農業徑流補足，使得水一年比一年鹹。成千上萬的死魚漂浮在湖面，白色的沙灘很快被它們的屍骸所覆蓋。所有的遊客都逃離此處，他們對腐爛的死魚所發出的惡臭感到無比的恐慌。幾乎一夜之後，索爾頓海消失了，遺留的只有現今存在的有毒荒地。

翻譯：漫小颯 來源：前十網