Let’s visit a classic landmark in the Chernobyl area. The Palace of Culture, or simply “Energetic”, was the place to gather when Pripyat was a thriving town – Before the Chernobyl accident. (more…)
Tag - Abandoned
The Duga over-the-horizon-radar is widely known and many Chernobyl tourists visit this place at their day tours in the zone. What is less known, is the huge computer center connected to the radar where thousand people worked with processing all the information Duga received. (more…)
The village of Mănăstirea in Romania, east of the town Dej, once had a beautiful castle and an extraordinary school. Now, both are abandoned but the school only for some years. Let’s have a look! (more…)
What about Hitler and the UFO plans? This building has sure made these rumors stronger, but in fact, what is it? This is the controversial Third Reich object still standing in former Ludwigsdorf, today’s Poland. (more…)
Many people are mistaken or mix the town of Chernobyl and the Chernobyl powerplant even that they are two separate places. What’s the difference and what to find in the town of Chernobyl today? (more…)
Rijeka Crnojevića was once a part of an important trading route and also winter resident for the Montenegrin dynasty Petrovic. Today, except for the summer, the town is in many ways abandoned and an interesting place of past times. (more…)
Pripyat middle school number 3 was one of five elementary schools in the city of Pripyat. This school has maybe the world’s most photographed collection of gas masks. See what I found inside the school from the Cold war high season. (more…)
Bucharest was formerly called “East Paris” and today we see the tracks. A walk through Bucharest is an orgy in decay and abandoned houses. See a city where vulgar architecture and modern historical decay are natural features of the cityscape. (more…)
The Pripyat Police station is located on the street Vulytsya Lesi Ukrayinky and was only 1,5 years old when the catastrophe occurred. It was a modern facility which still was in service many years after the disaster. Enjoy a tour of the Pripyat Police station and the truck graveyard och the backside. (more…)
The Sätra Mine is located just outside Finspång, a site where mining has long been the most important industry. In the place we are visiting, about 100 people worked by 1917-1918. There is hardly anything left of a previously so lively place. (more…)