Lithuania's abandoned hotels and sanatoriums are the physical remains of the Soviet spa economy โ health resorts built around the country's mineral springs and Baltic coast to provide state-sponsored recuperation...
Lithuania's ghost towns are among the most historically specific in Europe โ 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 โ 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 โ a 98km UNESCO-listed sand dune peninsula shared between Lithuania and Russia's Kaliningrad exclave, accessible only by ferry from Klaipฤda,...
ล iauliai is northern Lithuania's industrial capital and the gateway to the Hill of Crosses โ but beyond the famous pilgrimage site, the city and its surroundings hide a Soviet military...
Klaipฤda is Lithuania's only seaport and its most geopolitically layered city โ 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 โ 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 โ 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 โ a country whose forests hide nuclear missile bases with four R-12 thermonuclear launch pads, whose abandoned hangars contain 1960s Aeroflot...
Bฤlศi is Moldova's northern capital and its most Soviet city โ a former industrial hub that produced submarine sonar systems and agricultural machinery for the entire USSR, whose 8,000-worker Lenin...
The most completeย urbex map of Moldova available โ 100+ verified GPS locations across the country, from the abandoned Chiศinฤu State Circus closed since 2004, to the Gagarin Youth Center with...
Moldova is Europe's most overlooked urbex destination โ the poorest country on the continent, with a landscape described by Ex Utopia as "littered with abandoned factories, faded monuments and numerous...
