Beelitz-Heilstätten [Beelitz, Germany]

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Beelitz-Heilstätten, a district of Beelitz (Germany), is home to a large hospital complex of about 60 buildings including a cogeneration plant erected from 1898 on according to plans of architect Heino Schmieden. Originally designed as a sanatorium by the Berlin workers’ health insurance corporation, the complex from the beginning of World War I on was a military hospital of the Imperial German Army. During October and November 1916, Adolf Hitler recuperated at Beelitz-Heilstätten after being wounded in the leg at the Battle of the Somme.

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The Abandoned Church ‘Prinz Wilhelm Gedachtniskirche’ [Pisarzowice, Poland]

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When you’re pasing through Pisarzowice, it’s worth to turn onto a backroad and visit a beautiful abandoned Protestant church hidden among trees. It was built at the beginning of XX century on order of Prince Gustav Biron von Curland in memory of his dead son Wilhelm. The church, known as ‘Prinz Wilhelm Gedachtniskirche’, was used by local Protestants. It started getting into worse conditions in 1945, after Polish militiamen had broke the doors to its basement when they had been looking for German soldiers. The church became easy to access for burglars and vandals who turned it into ruin. Despite the bad conditions, the place is really impressive which makes it popular for photo sessions (there was even one wedding photo session during my visit) and video clips (a video clip of Polish death metal band Behemoth was shot here).

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Żukowice, a Semi-abandoned Village [Poland]

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Żukowice is a small village in Lower Silesia (Poland). Once the village was quite big (in 1973 it had 1060 inhabitants, there was a school, library, cinema here) but it became almost abandoned until 1995, as a copper smelter had been built there and the environment became too polluted to live. Now the village has only a little bit more than 30 inhabitants and some abandoned buildings reminding about its good times.

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An Abandoned Soviet Hospital [Legnica, Poland]

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An abandoned Soviet Hospital in Legnica with the history reaching back the beginning of XX century can be definitely called one of the greatest abandoned places in Poland. This huge hospital complex, built in 1929 by Germans and taken over by the Soviet army after World War II, consisted of several deparments, including Surgery, Infectious Diseases, Psychiatry and other ones.

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The Abandoned Saint Helen’s Church [Wróblin Głogowski, Poland]

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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.

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An Abandoned Protestant Church and the von Reichenbach Palace [Goszcz, Poland]

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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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The Liban Quarry [Kraków, Poland]

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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.

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The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone [Ukraine]

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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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