Buzludzha Monument
‘The story of the grey, saucer-shaped building is stranger than that of any movie with UFO’s. The building was inaugurated in 1981 by the Bulgarian communist regime to commemor
Hotel Medea
‘Hotel Medea’ is an abandoned hotel and sanatorium in Tskaltubo, west-central Georgia. Built in 1954 and left empty after the Soviet Union’s collapse, it was initially na
Sanatorium Imereti
Architects Vladimir Alexi-Meskhishvili and L. Janelidze completed the construction of Sanatorium Imereti in 1961. The Georgian city of Tskaltubo had emerged as a significant spa-re
Stalin’s Dacha, Tskaltubo
One of the many dachas (country or holiday houses) that were built for Stalin across the Soviet Union, this one was used when he visited the mineral springs dotted across the town.
Soviet Observatory, Tajikistan
An abandoned Soviet observatory on the top of a mountain in the middle of nowhere sounds exciting, right? Shorbulak Observatory, once the site of challenging astronomical observati
Tskaltubo Train Station
Tskhaltubo Railway Station in Georgia became abandoned after the collapse of the town’s spa industry, which happened as a result of the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990