Latvia's abandoned hotels tell the story of two lost tourism economies — the Soviet-era sanatorium and rest house system of the Jūrmala coast, where tens of thousands of Soviet workers...
Latvia has some of the most extraordinary ghost towns in Europe — Soviet military settlements abandoned overnight in 1994 when Russian forces withdrew, Cold War radar towns whose entire reason...
Latvia was a militarised Soviet frontier for 50 years — its Baltic coast facing NATO across the water, its forests hiding radar stations and listening posts, its ports sheltering the...
Jelgava is Latvia's most tragically layered city — the former capital of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, home to the largest Baroque palace in the Baltic states, but also...
Liepāja is Latvia's most extraordinary urban exploration destination — a city that combines an active port and cultural life with Karosta, one of the most atmospherically haunting half-abandoned military districts...
Daugavpils is Latvia's most geopolitically specific city — the second largest in the country, bordering Russia, Belarus and Lithuania simultaneously, 80% Russian-speaking, and home to the most extraordinary single abandoned...
Latvia has one of the most extraordinary collections of abandoned manor houses in Europe — over 1,000 Baltic German estates built between the 17th and 19th centuries across the Vidzeme,...
Riga is the largest city in the Baltic states and hides a Soviet layer beneath its Art Nouveau postcard — abandoned factory complexes in the eastern industrial districts, decaying wooden...
The most complete urbex map of Lithuania available — 200+ verified GPS locations across the country, from the Soviet nuclear missile base hidden in the forest to the plane repair hangar...
Lithuania concentrates an extraordinary range of Soviet-era abandonment in a country smaller than Latvia — nuclear missile bases with four R-12 launch pads hidden in the forest, a plane repair...
Lithuania's abandoned factories are among the most extraordinary in the Baltic states — a Soviet plane repair hangar with two 1960s Aeroflot aircraft still inside, a flight school with murals...
Lithuania's abandoned hotels and sanatoriums are the physical remains of the Soviet spa economy — health resorts built around the country's mineral springs and Baltic coast to provide state-sponsored recuperation...
