Architecture

The Modernist towers, high-rises and extraordinary Brutalist blocks of 'New Belgrade.'

A weekend in the bizarre new Burmese capital.

An introduction to the totalitarian architecture of Tirana, Albania.

Getting lost in the Soviet architecture of a Belarusian Winter Wonderland.

The abandoned Yugoslav monument where toads go to die.

One afternoon, five abandoned Yugoslav-era hotels.

Hammer, sickle, square and compass.

A month-long monument hunt, and what I learned along the way.

A visit to the abandoned Nikšić House of Revolution.

Concrete and daiquiris on a tour of Havana's big, bold, brutalist beauties.

A glimpse at the ridiculously photogenic revolution happening in Macedonia right this minute.

Contemplating 'disaster tourism' inside Reactors 5 & 6 of the Chernobyl Power Plant.

The unofficial tour of a London icon.

Now left abandoned for 15 years, this secret city once guarded a key Soviet radar facility.

Exploring the abandoned prison where a Romanian dictator once languished in solitary confinement.