Lithuania's ghost towns are among the most historically specific in Europe — Soviet nuclear missile base settlements emptied when the Cold War ended, the town of Visaginas that lost its...
Lithuania was a frontline Soviet republic for 50 years — its forests hiding nuclear missile bases with R-12 thermonuclear launch pads, its airfields housing Soviet interceptor jets, its factories concealing...
The Curonian Spit is one of Europe's most extraordinary landscapes — a 98km UNESCO-listed sand dune peninsula shared between Lithuania and Russia's Kaliningrad exclave, accessible only by ferry from Klaipėda,...
Šiauliai is northern Lithuania's industrial capital and the gateway to the Hill of Crosses — but beyond the famous pilgrimage site, the city and its surroundings hide a Soviet military...
Klaipėda is Lithuania's only seaport and its most geopolitically layered city — a Baltic port that was German-speaking Memel until 1945, then the westernmost Soviet port city, now the gateway...
Kaunas is Lithuania's second city and its interwar capital — a city of extraordinary modernist architecture built during the 1920s-30s independence period that UNESCO has recognised as the most complete...
Vilnius is one of Europe's most historically layered capitals — a city that has been Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, German and Soviet in the same century, whose UNESCO Old Town Baroque...
Lithuania is one of Europe's most underrated urbex destinations — a country whose forests hide nuclear missile bases with four R-12 thermonuclear launch pads, whose abandoned hangars contain 1960s Aeroflot...
Bălți is Moldova's northern capital and its most Soviet city — a former industrial hub that produced submarine sonar systems and agricultural machinery for the entire USSR, whose 8,000-worker Lenin...
The most complete urbex map of Moldova available — 100+ verified GPS locations across the country, from the abandoned Chișinău State Circus closed since 2004, to the Gagarin Youth Center with...
Moldova is Europe's most overlooked urbex destination — the poorest country on the continent, with a landscape described by Ex Utopia as "littered with abandoned factories, faded monuments and numerous...
Moldova's abandoned factories are the physical record of a total economic collapse — the Soviet planned economy built an industrial infrastructure across Moldova that accounted for a substantial portion of...
