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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 Pyramid, Bunkers & Purple Concrete of Communist Albania

22 Jun 2017

An introduction to the totalitarian architecture of Tirana, Albania.

#Psychogeography #Albania #Cold War #Architecture

Dark Tourism in Malaysia: Penang War Museum & its Haunted History

31 May 2017

Fact and fantasy collide at the Penang War Museum in Malaysia.

#Malaysia #Dark Tourism #Museum #Military #Concentration Camp #Supernatural

Midwinter Minsk: Socialist Modernism in the ‘Soviet Florida’

28 Apr 2017

Getting lost in the Soviet architecture of a Belarusian Winter Wonderland.

#Psychogeography #Belarus #USSR #Architecture

The Bad Place: Slime & Foreboding at the Grmeč Spomenpark in Bosnia

31 Mar 2017

The abandoned Yugoslav monument where toads go to die.

#Bosnia #Psychogeography #Dark Tourism #Yugoslavia #Spomenik #Architecture

Postcards from Kupari: Visiting Croatia’s ‘Bay of Abandoned Hotels’

07 Mar 2017

One afternoon, five abandoned Yugoslav-era hotels.

#Croatia #Urban Exploration #Dark Tourism #Yugoslavia #Ghost Town #Rooftops #Architecture

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