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Room 202: Hunting for Ghosts at Winnipeg’s Fort Garry Hotel

23 Jan 2019

Three nights in Canada's most haunted hotel room.

#Canada #Dark Tourism #Supernatural

Holidays in Abkhazia

01 Jan 2019

Sun, sea & Soviet architecture in the unrecognised Republic of Abkhazia.

#Unrecognised Countries #Abkhazia #Travel #USSR

Ciudad Nuclear: Exploring Cuba’s Half-Abandoned ‘Nuclear City’

09 Jun 2018

The Caribbean Pripyat.

#Cuba #Ghost Town #Rooftops #Cold War #Architecture

Catastrophic Kitsch: The Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum

31 May 2018

Gas masks, glitter and ghosts.

#Dark Tourism #Ukraine #Museum #Chernobyl

Soviet Monuments in Armenia

28 May 2018

Propaganda, genocide, and the politics of memory.

#Monumentalism #Armenia #Caucasus #USSR #Architecture

Laguna Vere: Tbilisi’s Abandoned Soviet-era Sports Complex

12 Nov 2017

Laguna Vere in Tbilisi, Georgia, was once the premier aquatic sports centre in the Caucasus.

#Georgia #Urban Exploration #USSR #Architecture

Life in the High-Rise: My Brutalist Holiday in Belgrade’s Genex Tower

07 Nov 2017

A meditation on Brutalism, the occult & J. G. Ballard.

#Psychogeography #Serbia #Yugoslavia #Architecture

Novi Beograd: The Modernist Architecture of a Yugoslav Utopia

12 Oct 2017

The Modernist towers, high-rises and extraordinary Brutalist blocks of 'New Belgrade.'

#Serbia #Yugoslavia #Architecture

Vila Rebar: Exploring the Secret Tunnels of a Croatian Dictator

30 Sep 2017

The abandoned former home of Ante Pavelić – the man they called the ‘Butcher of the Balkans.’

#Croatia #Urban Exploration #Dark Tourism #Underground

Inside Naypyidaw: The Truth About Myanmar’s ‘Ghost City’ Capital

02 Jul 2017

A weekend in the bizarre new Burmese capital.

#Myanmar #Ghost Town #Architecture

The Bohemian Blog

The Bohemian Blog is an alternative travel journal, dedicated to exploring the bizarre, the macabre and other secret wonders of the world.

Darmon Richter

Darmon Richter is a travel writer, tour guide and researcher, with a particular interest in ideological architecture.