Places Edited by jnpeerenboom

This formerly-prosperous Silesian mining town was completely demolished in the late 1960s and early 1970s as an attempt to cover up a secret Soviet uranium mine.

A series of colorful murals breathes new life into old grain silos in Spain.

This Gallo-Roman sanctuary is dedicated to Serápis, god of the underworld.

Designed as a labyrinth, this subterranean prison was crafted without bars or doors.

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.

A mud brick kasbah with a history of lavishness and traitorship.

The second-largest Jewish temple in Bulgaria was deserted after World War II, seized by the communist government and then abandoned again.