Tskaltubo is the world capital of Soviet abandoned architecture — a spa town 15 minutes from Kutaisi where Stalin bathed in the radon springs and where 22 sanatoriums and 6...
Georgia's abandoned military heritage spans three distinct eras — 19th-century Imperial Russian Caucasus frontier fortifications, Soviet bases retained by Russia until 2001–2007 and the fresh ruins of the 2008 Russo-Georgian...
Georgia is the world's greatest destination for Soviet abandoned places — a Caucasus republic where the USSR invested with extraordinary ambition and where the 1991 collapse left everything frozen in...
Georgia's ghost towns are born from three distinct forces that have emptied communities across the Caucasus: the Soviet industrial collapse of 1991, the wars in Abkhazia and South Ossetia and...
Fukushima is unlike any other abandoned places destination in Japan — or the world. On March 11th 2011, the magnitude 9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake triggered a tsunami that caused...
Nagasaki is Japan's ultimate haikyo prefecture — the city and its surrounding archipelago contain the two most famous abandoned places in Japan and arguably the world. Hashima Island (Gunkanjima, "Battleship...
Kyoto is Japan's ancient capital — 1,200 years of imperial history, 1,600 Buddhist temples and 400 Shinto shrines. Its abandoned places are of a completely different character from Tokyo or...
Osaka is Japan's second city and its commercial heartland — the city that built its identity on trade, street food and working-class energy. Its abandoned places reflect a specifically Osaka...
Tokyo is the world's largest metropolitan area — 37 million people, layer upon layer of urban development since the Edo period — and its abandoned places are buried between the...
Japan's abandoned military landscape spans from the Imperial Japanese Navy installations of WWII to the specific dereliction of Okunoshima — the "Rabbit Island" that produced chemical weapons under the strictest...
Japan's abandoned hospital landscape is the most unsettling category of haikyo — a country where the specific combination of Japan's ageing population crisis (rural hospitals closing as communities shrink), the...
Japan has ghost towns unlike any other country — from an entire island abandoned overnight when a coal mine closed in 1974, to a mountain mining community whose 3,000 residents...
