kirstybennetts's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

kirstybennetts

A full-time traveller with a passion for off the beaten path destinations and unusual things to see and do in better-known places. I love street art, Soviet-era mosaics and bus stops, abandoned places and concrete, Asian food and gin! Areas I spend most of my travel time: Asia, the Far East, and the New East (Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Baltic states, and Central Asia).

https://www.kathmanduandbeyond.com/

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Places visited in Cambodia

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Places visited in Krong Battambang, Cambodia

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Places visited in Vinnytsia, Ukraine

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Dubrovnik, Croatia

Orlando's Column in Dubrovnik

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

stanestane

Added by stanestane

Rijeka, Croatia

Torpedo Launch Station

Now abandoned, the world's first torpedo factory is crumbling into the sea.

ahvenas

Added by ahvenas

Plitvička Jezera, Croatia

Plitvice Lakes

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

Added by nsmrekar

Ljubljana, Slovenia

'Faces' of Locksmith Street

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

Added by chantal

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Cyanometer

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

AaronNetsky

Added by AaronNetsky

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Metelkova

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

rossrheinbach

Added by rossrheinbach

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Dragon Bridge

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

Added by christianskotte

Malinska, Croatia

Abandoned Haludovo Palace Hotel

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

Added by denissele

Hotel du Lac

Some believe this abandoned Brutalist masterpiece inspired George Lucas's Sandcrawler.

Vilnius, Lithuania

Palace of Concerts and Sports

An abandoned masterpiece of Soviet Brutalist architecture.

Darmon Richter

Added by Darmon Richter

Kyiv Institute of Information

This exquisite, alienesque piece of Soviet architecture is being threatened by modern shopping malls.

hrnick

Added by hrnick

Odessa, Ukraine

Trade Unions Building

The eerie burnt-out remains of a prominent building where 30 protestors lost their lives.

Added by hoppdanson

Odessa, Ukraine

Mother-In-Law Bridge

Padlocks cover this rickety footbridge with love.

SamM

Lviv Statue of Liberty

This unique Lady Liberty is one of the only examples of the figure sitting down.

SamM

Kyiv Crematorium

This oddly shaped building is a surprising Soviet-era crematorium.

hrnick

Added by hrnick

Kamianets'-podil's'kyi, Ukraine

Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle

This Ukranian fortress is one of the best-preserved medieval castles in Europe.

gjexcalibur

Added by gjexcalibur

Lychakiv Cemetery

Monumental sculptures guard many of the graves, transforming this necropolis into an open-air fine art museum.

petrosmonogios

Added by petrosmonogios

Slavutych, Ukraine

Slavutych

The last planned Soviet city was built for the former residents of Pripyat after the Chernobyl disaster.

megancstarr

Added by megancstarr

Vinnytsia, Ukraine

Roshen Fountain

The spectacular Roshen Fountain show lights up the night sky all summer long, until it "hibernates" under the ice waiting for spring to come.

Added by sychovasvitlana

Holodomor Victims Memorial

The haunting complex honors the millions of Ukrainians who died in the forced famine under Soviet rule.

Added by chernobaevlucy

Yard of Lost Toys

This Ukraine alleyway has become its own little island of forgotten things.

nickdrewe

Added by nickdrewe

Giant Crossword of Lviv

World's largest crossword puzzle spans the side of a towerblock, its clues scattered throughout the city.

anhie

House with Chimaeras

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

SamM

Kolomyya, Ukraine

Pysanka Museum

Welcome to the world's only museum dedicated to the Ukranian Easter egg.

SamM