An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The island behind Javier Bardem's master hideaway in "Skyfall" does not have a happy story. If you've seen the 23rd Bond film, you remember the ...

Few people cared about the derelict Japanese island of Hashima until 2012, when its crumbling piers and abandoned apartment buildings were used as a backdrop for the secret island in the James Bond ...

Nine miles off the Japanese coast near Nagasaki lies Hashima Island, known to be one of the world's spookiest locations. The history of the island is dark and haunting as hundreds of workers faced a ...

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5kmKO_gGsc?feature=player_embedded] Google Trekker just announced the expansion of its street view hiking map project to ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Things took a turn for the sinister at the dawn of World War II, when the Japanese turned the island into a bona ...

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The Google Street View Trekker backpack is at it again, and this time it visited the abandoned Hashima Island, or more well-known as "Dead Island" or "Dead City" from the most recent James Bond film ...

Fresh from adding Street View images of a building that looks like the lair of a super-villain, Google has now added an actual* master criminal's stronghold to its mapping service. Hashima Island - a ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. The island re-opened to tourists in 2009, but certain areas remained off-limits. Google worked with ...

Piyapan Choopetch's paranormal thriller sees five Thai filmmakers struggle with the after-effects of a location shoot on Hashima, the abandoned Japanese island which inspired the villain's den in ...