Former training center turned vacation spot, the Hotel of the Papin Sisters spans several hectares and includes multiple buildings. Despite its imposing size, it is now overrun by vegetation, sometimes completely hidden under bushes.
Its vast rooms, corridors, and windows offer varied views of the surrounding nature and distant mountains.
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 top 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 originate from three distinct causes that have emptied communities across the Caucasus: the Soviet industrial collapse of 1991, the wars in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and the...
