Hello everyone what is happening!
Im your host Ayman Hasan and welcome back to another video here at most amazing top
10.
I feel like i should spice it up now any suggestions?
I think no matter what anyone says there is that shameless tourist inside us who wants
to take pictures of all the sights in the world whether for the memories, for the culture,
for the gram or even for your own personal collection.
I think we’re lucky to live in a world where every place has so much to offer.
But sadly not everything stands the test of time and there are a lot of places and sights
we dont have the privilege of seeing anymore.
On that morbid note, do remember to subscribe to the channel and top 10 hindi videos for
less morbid content i promise!
But without further ado, This is the Top 10 Tourist Attractions That No Longer Exist.
Starting us off with number 10 are the Pink and White Terraces in New Zealand.
When i saw images of this for the first time I honestly thought an artist had just painted
it from his imagination they look like pink ice frozen in steps like a lava flow.
Did that image only make sense in my head?
Damn it.
Anyway, the pink and white terraces used to be the largest silica sinter deposits on earth.
They were formed by upwelling geothermal springs that contained silica filled chloride water.
The springs in the terrace were around 1200m which is about 3900 ft.
However on June 10th 1886 Mount Tarawera erupted and sent out huge red hot boulders and black
ash that covered the area.
Where the terraces used to be now had a massive 100 m deep crater instead which is now known
as Lake Rotomahana.
Coming in at number 9 are the Guaira (gua-ee-ra) Falls.
Now these Falls are located right on the border of Paraguay (para-gwhy) and BRazil.
Back in its hay day it was probably the single most powerful cataract in the world regarding
volume with 1,750,000 cubic feet of water passing through it every single second.
Thats 12 times the level in Victoria Falls and double the flow of Niagara Falls.
The area contained around 18 falls and had a drop of 375 feet.
They say it was so loud you could hear it from 20 miles away.
Im shook.
Sadly this wonder ceased to exist in 1982 because the Parana River was dammed in order
to create a reservoir and the waterfalls were drowned by the Itaipu (it-eye-poo) Dam.
The dam was part of the worlds largest hydroelectric project at the time and its ironic how we
had to essentially wipe out a natural wonder of the world in the pursuit of sustainably
using energy on this earth.
Oxymoron am i right?
At number 8 we have The Crystal Palace.
Built in Hyde Park London in order to house the Great Exhibition of 1851 the Crystal Palace
was 92,000 m2, 39 meters tall and 564 m long.
To put those numbers into context thats around 3 times bigger than St Pauls Cathedral.
The structure was made from plates of glass and cast iron it the biggest structure made
from glass ever seen in a building.
The building actually had no lights because of all the natural light that came through.
That makes me wonder how people saw in there at night but lets move on.
The Crystal Palace looks stunning in pictures the Victorian architecture makes it seem like
something from the gods honestly and it was apparently quite cheap to make considering
how royal looking it turned out.
When the exhibition ended it was relocated and rebuilt next to Sydenham (sidnam) Hill
and it stayed there for 82 years before being destroyed by a fire in 1936.
Filling our number 7 slot are the Sutro Baths.
Owned and built by the former mayor of San Francisco Adolph Sutro, his eccentric project
ended up becoming the worlds largest indoor swimming pool opening its doors in 1896.
The place had an ice rink, 6 saltwater pools all heated to different temperatures, boujee,
and a 2700 seat amphitheatre.
It even had natural history exhibits and fine art displayed everywhere.
Like i would totally go there if it still existed.
But upkeep of the Sutro Baths cost a lot of money and it just wasnt financially viable.
After Sutro died his family turned the place into other amenities in order to gain more
visitors but that failed too and his grandson sold the place in 1952.
They were done for good in 1966 when the whole place burned down in a very suspicious fire.
This all just screams shady.
Either way the baths are no longer there but people still occasionally visit its ruins.
Now at number 6 is the original Pennsylvania Station.
These days Grand Central is that one station you have to go see for all its beauty but
back in the day it was Penn Station.
The station used to have soaring archways, domed ceilings and Greek Parthenon looking
columns.
The pictures are honestly stunning.
At its peak the station used to get 100 million passengers a year in the mid 40s.
But 15 years later and the creation of the interstate highway system made the visitor
toll drop considerably.
The station was eventually demolished in 1963 and the NY Times actually questioned how on
earth the city could ‘permit this monumental act of vandalism against of the largest and
finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance’.
During the decade it was demolished Grand Central Terminal actually became protected
under New York Citys Landmarks Preservation Act.
One had to go down so the other could survive I guess.
Having one is still better than having none I guess.
Coming in at number 5 is Heritage USA.
This used to be an american christian themed water park, theme park and residential area
in South Carolina.
Thats the first time ive heard of a religiously themed park but theres a first for everything.
Built in 1978 by Pentecostal televangelists Tammy Faye and Jim Bakkar who were also the
founders of the PTL Club.
The park stood at 2300 acres and was 25 times bigger than Disneyland.
And disneyland is pretty big as it is.
Ther place had condos, hotels, campgrounds, a shopping mall, a skating rink, a bible and
evangelism school and even a cable television productive studio.
I mean this could be a mini functioning town if it wanted to be.
On top of that Heritage USA racked in about 6 million visitors a year by the mid 80s.
But after a 1987 news erupted of Jim Bakkers sexual encounters his PTL employees and him
using the churches funds to cover it up.
He was found guilty of 24 chargers regarding mismanagement of PTLs funds.
If that wasnt bad enough a hurricane in 1989 also destroyed a lot of the parks infrastructure.
It then closed down for good.
At number 4 are the Buddhas of Bamiyan.
Now the buddhas were carved in the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley in central Afghanistan
way back in the 6th century.
The monuments were of Gautam Buddha and were done in the style of Gandhara art.
The smaller one was built in 507 CE standing at 35m tall whereas the larger one was built
in 554 CE and stood at 53m tall.
The main bodies of the buddhas were carved straight from the sandstone cliffs but the
details were modeled from a mixture of straw and mud coated with stucco.
A lot of the details of the monuments had worn away before their destruction in March
of 2001.
They were dynamited and destroyed over a period of many weeks by the Taliban who were given
orders declaring the buddhas were idols.
But do not fret, it was a big loss but the japanese government and other organisations
have committed to rebuilding the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Filling our number 3 slot is the Chacaltaya (chac-al-tye-ah) Glacier (glay-cee-er) in
Bolivia.
Now this Glacier was home to the worlds highest lift served ski resort at one point and it
was also Bolivias only ski resort.
Because of the extremely high altitude only real thrill seekers and serious skiiers made
the journey to the glacier which was only accessible by a dirt road.
You can literally ski above the clouds at 17,388 ft The rope tow was built in 1939 and
the lift used to only operated on weekends between november and march.
However by the 1990s experts started noticing the glaciers ice was melting at a rapid rate,
they gave it till 2015 before the ice melted completely but they were way off.
By 2009 the ski run disappeared for good.
That sucked not just for avid winter sport goers but for the people living in and around
the glacier because it serves as a source of hydroelectric power and drinking water
for 80 million people.
Climate change is real people.
Now at number 2 is The Lighthouse of Alexandria.
Built between 284 and 246 BC the lighthouse was built by the Ptolemaic Kingdom and it
was said to be 100m tall.
The Lighthouse took 12 years to finish building and it was actually the lighthouse that later
served as the prototype for all lighthouses.
The light at the top was produced by a furnace and the whole tower itself was built mostly
with limestone.
But sadly the lighthouse was quite badly damaged in an earthquake in 956 then by another earthquake
in 1303 and then by another one in 1323.
Any remnant left of the lighthouse also disappeared by 1480 when the Sultan build a fort on top
of the platform where the lighthouse used to stand.
However not all was lost.
In 1994 French Archaeologists actually found some of its remains on the floor of the Alexandrias
Eastern Harbour which they brought up and which are now lying on the harbour for people
to see.
The Egyptian Ministry of State Antiquities had plans to turn the area into an underwater
museum.
Whether that happens or not is unclear since the plan was originally made 3 years ago.
And finally at number 1 is The Azure (az-your) Window.
And im pretty sure everyone has seen pictures of this online, on a lot of tourism postcards
and even in a bunch of movie scenes.
The Azure Window used to be a natural 28 m tall arch located on the island of Gozo in
Malta.
The arch was most likely created in the 19th century by the collapse of a sea cave.
Between the 90s and 2000s parts of the top slab of the arch were seen collapsing so arch
was getting wider and wider.
Big pieces of the arch collapsed in 2012 and 2013 and its final collapse was on the 8th
of March 2017 after many heavy storms.
The pillar part of the arch gave way first which then caused the top part of the arch
to collapse.
People said the deterioration was inevitable which of course it was but the collapse gained
a lot of international attention and was apparently turned into a meme in Malta as well.
And thats it for todays video guys!
Lemme know in the comments below which attraction you wouldve liked to visit out of all of them
on the list and if you choose all of them I fully support that.
My top picks would be the pink and white terraces, the buddhas of bamiyan and the crystal palace.
Those captured my attention the most imo.
Anyway guys im your host Ayman Hasan and Ill see you in the next one.
Byee.