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Xander ✺
@spectralcodex.com

It's pretty sad that so many of these ruined townhouse complexes you find around #Taiwan are the result of developers swindling people who are then stuck holding the bag. Anyway, here's another #urbex post from a recent bike ride... spectralcodex.com/dahu-little-...

spectralcodex.comDahu Little Tianmu Villas (大湖小天母別墅) - Spectral CodexAn unfinished townhouse complex on the edge of central Dahu that became a symbol of developer fraud in rural Taiwan. Construction began in 1993 but the 54 units were never completed; buyers were left ...
Xander ✺
@spectralcodex.com

Also posted to test the snazzy new OpenGraph image generator I'm using on the site. 6000+ custom graphics ready and waiting for the most obscure locale to blow up on social media for whatever reason (as happened with a children's playground in Keelung the other week).

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Xander ✺
@spectralcodex.com

A serendipitous find from the same bike trip... just south of Dahu I noticed an old building while passing by and turns out it was an abandoned Japanese colonial era police station, the only one remaining in the township! Not too many of these left in 2026... spectralcodex.com/dahu-nanhu-p...

spectralcodex.comNanhu Police Station (南湖派出所) - Spectral CodexOne of three Japanese colonial era police stations established in Dahu. It is the only one that survives today, though it has long been abandoned after a newer station was constructed immediately next...
Xander ✺
@spectralcodex.com

I also blasted out a brief report about a famous old hospital in the oldest part of Dahu... seems like it may have been abandoned for at least a half century! I was interested to learn silent movies were screened in the forecourt in the 1930s. spectralcodex.com/dahu-fusheng...

spectralcodex.comDahu Fusheng Hospital (大湖傅生醫院) - Spectral CodexA private hospital on Yongle Street established in 1917 by Dr. Fu Bo (傅波), a graduate of the Taiwan Governor-General Medical School. After his death in 1938 the hospital was abandoned and has remained...