An abandoned house built perilously close to a river in the mountains of Taichung. It was inundated with floodwaters during Typhoon Toraji (颱風桃芝) in 2001 and again by Typhoon Mindulle (颱風敏督利) in 2004, filling the ground floor with large stones and debris. Despite this disaster the house was still standing in the late 2010s, a curious relic just off the main highway through the area. It is sometimes also referred to as a “nail house” (釘子樓) for stubbornly resisting destruction by the elements.
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.