{"id":59259,"date":"2025-04-11T22:53:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T20:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=59259"},"modified":"2026-04-11T01:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T23:14:10","slug":"a-mysterious-concrete-building-hidden-and-abandoned-in-a-remote-mountain-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/04\/11\/a-mysterious-concrete-building-hidden-and-abandoned-in-a-remote-mountain-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"A mysterious concrete building hidden and abandoned in a remote mountain in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are buildings that are astonishing not because of their design or the materials used, but because of their unusual locations.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/17\/the-strange-case-of-a-beacon-in-the-middle-of-a-desert-and-more-than-160-km-from-the-coast\/\">The strange case of a beacon in the middle of a desert and more than 160 km from the coast<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/09\/15\/two-houses-swallowed-up-by-nature-in-the-domains-of-the-mythical-asturian-busgoso\/\">Two houses swallowed up by nature in the domains of the mythical Asturian busgoso<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Such is the case of <strong>a five-story concrete building abandoned in a remote mountain gorge<\/strong> in Guizhou Province, inland on the Chinese mainland. A few weeks ago, a Chinese YouTuber, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Qingyunji\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Qingyunji Xiaoxue<\/a>, posted a video exploring this enigmatic construction, noting: <em>\"The house has five floors in total, and each floor has three windows that cleverly open. Looking around, <strong>there is no human population for miles around<\/strong>. It really makes people wonder: <strong>why build such a house in such a strange and dangerous place?<\/strong>\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This girl's exploration sheds some light on the building: <strong>it appears to have been a salamander breeding ground<\/strong>. At the back of the building is a concrete wall behind which is a water tank, which filters its contents into a series of containers located on each floor. <strong>Next to the building is a waterfall, above which is a balcony.<\/strong> A strange construction that you can see in more detail here (the video is in Chinese; you can activate the automatic English subtitles in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u8d35\u5dde\u6df1\u5c71\u5ce1\u8c37\u53d1\u73b0\u795e\u79d8\u5efa\u7b51\uff0c\u4e00\u680b\u697c\u623f\u7adf\u9690\u79d8\u7684\u9576\u5d4c\u5728\u5d16\u7f1d\u4e4b\u4e2d\uff0c\u8fd9\u662f\u505a\u4ec0\u4e48\u7684\uff1f\ufe31A mysterious building built in a cave was discovered in Guizhou\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E5CpO3XV1uw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see some screenshots from this video here. <strong>Here we see the strange location of the building, practically hidden in a mountain.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54444669912_0df9fe23c2_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The building appears to have been built using a natural cavern<\/strong> and a stream of water that flowed from its interior to the waterfall next to it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54445901535_3f582a34b2_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The building is devoid of any adornment.<\/strong> It is a concrete construction where only functionality has taken precedence.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54445532731_b500965dbe_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Some curious signs on the entrance door.<\/strong> One of them orders silence and another prohibits taking photos. Why so much mystery about a salamander farm?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54445901525_84a58638b1_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are buildings that are astonishing not because of their design or the materials used, but because of their unusual locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,16882],"tags":[24213,17125,18312],"class_list":["post-59259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-forests-and-mountains","tag-guizhou","tag-peoples-republic-of-china","tag-undisclosed-locations"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 10:03:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}