Slavutych: A photographic journey through Ukraine’s ‘21st-century city’. A walk around the purpose-built city built in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster.
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Places associated with the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
Places in Lithuania and Ukraine associated with HBO’s Chernobyl miniseries. Where was Chernobyl filmed? Locations connected with the nuclear accident.
Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant and the purpose-built Soviet city of Visaginas | Off-the-beaten-track Lithuania
Get off-the-beaten-path in Lithuania: Visiting Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant and the purpose-built Soviet city of Visaginas.
Alternative things to see in Lviv, Ukraine
A guide to alternative Lviv, including off the beaten track places, quirky things to see, abandoned buildings, street art, and Soviet-era architecture.
London’s Magnificent Seven Cemeteries – Kensal Green Cemetery
Photographs of Kensal Green Cemetery in London, one of the city’s historical graveyards; part of a group known as the ‘Magnificent Seven’.
Visiting the site of the Sajmište Concentration Camp in New Belgrade
Visiting the site of Sajmište Concentration Camp and the memorial to the city’s Jewish and Roma population detained there, New Belgrade, Serbia.
Visiting the Crveni Krst (Red Cross) Concentration Camp and Bubanj Memorial Park in Nis, Serbia
Visiting the Crveni Krst (Red Cross) Concentration Camp and Bubanj Memorial Park in Nis, two culturally important sights in south Serbia.
Ninth Fort Museum & Monument in Kaunas | Lithuania
Visit Ninth Fort Museum & Monument in Kaunas, with its 32-metre tall memorial in remembrance of the 30,000 Jews who were murdered here during the Holocaust.
Visiting Buzludzha Monument: Communist Party HQ in Bulgaria
What self-respecting lover of modernist Communist-built architecture wouldn’t want to see the visually impressive UFO-shaped Buzludzha Monument?!
Pripyat: Photos from Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine
Haunting photographs of Pripyat, the abandoned town in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, deserted following the nuclear power plant explosion in April 1986.
Vietnam War sites in Saigon: Exploring places related to the US-Vietnam War
Discovering Vietnam war sites in Ho Chi Minh. A self-guided walking tour of the buildings and locations in Saigon associated with the US-Vietnam war.
Discovering Lychakivske Cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine
Lychakivske Cemetery in the Ukrainian city of Lviv is beautiful. A mini-guide to this historic graveyard, packed with ornate tombstones and headstones.