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Skeletons of Utopia: The Story of Shumen’s Central City Square

19 Jun 2019

When Bulgarian architects high on Le Corbusier run out of money halfway through building utopia.

#Urban Exploration #Bulgaria #Architecture

Nagorno-Karabakh: Exploring the Unrecognised Republic of Artsakh

25 May 2019

Monuments, tanks and ghost towns.

#Unrecognised Countries #Nagorno-Karabakh #Travel #USSR #Military

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

The Bohemian Blog

An alternative travel journal exploring the bizarre, the macabre, and other secret wonders of the world.

Darmon Richter

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