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Tag: Lost Places

Albanias Bunkers

11. June 2019 Simon Albania Leave a comment

Albania’s dictator Hoxha ordered the construction of 750,000 bunkers to protect the country. About 170,000 were built. Most are still in place and rotting away.

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A Pyramid for the dictator

28. May 2019 Simon Albania Leave a comment

Anyone staying in Tirana can hardly ignore the dictators’ pyramid. From 1988 to 1991 the former Enver Hoxha Museum had “more or less everything Enver Hoxha had ever touched” on display.

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Inside the Odessa Catacombs

27. February 2019 Simon Ukraine 2 comments

The biggest attraction in the ukrainian city of Odessa is not located on the surface, but below the ground. Welcome to the largest catacomb network in the world!

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The Stalin Tunnels

20. January 2019 Simon Ukraine Leave a comment

During WWII Stalin wanted to keep the supply lines for the Kiev fortress alive at all cost, using two tunnels under the river Dnjepr. Today the ruins of this failed, highly secret project are sinking into the swamps near the city.

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The Shadows Of Chernobyl

20. December 2018 Simon Ukraine Leave a comment

On April 26, 1986 reactor number 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded and contaminated half of Europe. A visit to the still highly contaminanted Exclusion Zone around the former power plant

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Druzhnyj: A lost place for true friends

12. August 2018 Simon Belarus Leave a comment

In the Soviet Union, the kids didn’t fly to London in Summer, but went to the Communist Pioneer Camp. One of these camps is rotting away in a forest near Minsk…

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The abandoned french factory

10. July 2018 Simon Germany One comment

We could hardly believe our luck: An actual Lost Place, in the middle of a residential area, almost on our doorstep. But what had been produced here?

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The abandoned soviet factory

5. July 2018 Simon Moldova Leave a comment

We found an abandoned factory in Moldova by chance. But what was produced here?

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The giant abandoned Soviet Nuclear Bunker in Moldova

1. July 2018 Simon Moldova 6 comments

Deep inside a forest in Moldova a giant soviet nuclear bunker is decaying in silence…

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