by Mark | Mar 1, 2019 | Bosnia & Herzegovina |
Visiting Sarajevo’s abandoned Olympic sites The now-abandoned ski jumps and nearby Hotel Igman were constructed in the early 1980s in preparation for the 1984 Winter Olympics which were hosted by the nearby city of Sarajevo. Igman, also known as Malo Polje (small...
by Mark | Feb 12, 2019 | Abkhazia, Armenia, Cambodia, Croatia, Georgia, Romania, Taiwan, Ukraine, Vietnam |
Urban exploration at some of the world’s forsaken swimming pools Of all the derelict places we find, swimming pools have to be one of the most alluring. It’s not always that easy to visualise what an abandoned location would have been like before it became...
by Kirsty | Jan 31, 2019 | Croatia |
Easy urbexing on the Dalmatian Coast at the bay of abandoned hotels The words ‘urbexing’ and ‘easy’ are a rare combination but the smattering of abandoned hotels near the Croatian seaside town of Kupari is not only one of the best places for a spot of urban...
by Mark | Jan 22, 2019 | Croatia |
A single-line train track and the occasional bit of razor wire were the only things that separated Croatia and Slovenia as we drove through picturesque countryside en route to the unassuming village of Kumrovec. Situated 60km slightly northwest of Zagreb, the...
by Mark | Jan 12, 2019 | Abkhazia |
After visiting the former Central Olympic Base of the USSR in the village of Eshera (also spelt Escher or Esher), our exploration of Abkhazia’s neglected and plundered structures continued with a visit to the nearby Sanatorium of the Ministry of Defence of the USSR....
by Mark | Jan 2, 2019 | Estonia |
I almost had my first urbexing injury while wandering around Viivikonna, a quasi-abandoned former mining town up in the far northeast of Estonia. We had been driving around what is left of the settlement when we spotted a distinctive red-coloured house that had the...
