Lindiniškės is a small village around 10 kilometres from Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Passing through this place you can find some old wooden houses and gardens nearby. The village is surrounded by forests and fields which make this place very calm and a bit remote.
Bukiškis is a village around 10 kilometres from the capital of Lithuania Vilnius. There is an agricultural school, church, old farmstead and a few grocery stores in this village. There is also a huge lake in Bukiškis—probably the most impressive place there.
Wrocław Main Train Station. Here our journey begins. Trains are arriving from and departing to different places in Poland and abroad. One of them, before reaching its final station, stops in a small abandoned village.
Continue reading “The Abandoned Saint Helen’s Church [Wróblin Głogowski, Poland]”
Goszcz is a small Polish town with two really impressive and a little bit unusual places—a mystic abandoned Protestant church and the semi-ruined Palace von Reichenbach, where, surprisingly, people are still living.
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Sometimes it’s enough just to watch a movie to feel that the place which you saw there is the one where you simply have to go. That’s what can happen to you after seeing ‘Strawberry Wine’ which shows a magic life of a small village in Southeastern Poland.
The most amazing thing about Jaśliska, the village where the movie was shot, is that it’s so remote from everything and seems that the life here stopped long time ago.
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It doesn’t happen too often to find some stunning nature corner just a few steps from the city center, but it’s different in Kraków where you don’t need to go far to see really huge and beautiful lake.
The Liban Quarry is often called one of the creepiest abandoned places in Kraków, and it really is so—it is located in a territory of the former Płaszów Concentration Camp which operated here during the World War II. In 1993 some scenes of ‘Schindler’s List’ movie were shot here and there are still some decorations left in this place surrounded by amazing limestone cliffs, ponds, forest and thick bushes. All these taken together make that territory be unique breathtaking site, which just perfectly joins the beauty of nature and horror of creepy abandoned buildings.
I went to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in 2013. You’ll find here a few facts about this place and photos from my trip.
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation, also commonly known as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, is an officially designated exclusion area around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
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For me traveling is discovering, and the most interesting places are undiscovered ones. That’s why I prefer to step off the beaten track and go where nobody has been before.
In this blog you will find places which are almost unknown at all. They don’t appear in travel guides, some of them are even not marked on maps. But, despite this, these places are really worth to visit—just in order to see something completely different from everything that you have seen before and realise that not everything has been discovered yet.