hungary

Inside A Forgotten Hotel Frozen In Time Since The 1990s Hidden deep within the trees sits this incredible abandoned hotel, believed to date back to the 1960s or 1970s. Built during a time when family holidays and company retreats were becoming increasingly popular, the hotel once welcomed...

Hidden deep in a remote forest, this civil defence bunker has sat abandoned since around 1997. It was part of a wider network of bunkers built during the Cold War to maintain uninterrupted communications in the event of a nuclear attack. The bunker is surprisingly well preserved, with much of...

Hidden away in Hungary, this Cold War-era BGS “cube” was built as a civil defence shelter designed to protect people from bombs, gas attacks and shrapnel during a time of huge fear and tension across Europe. Inside, it still feels like a scene frozen from a disaster plan — rows of rusting beds...

The last location from our trip east last year was an abandoned section of an otherwise functional hospital in Hungary. We had seen an album online featuring photos from several different hospital buildings. If I remember correctly, one of the friends I was traveling with had a contact who knew...

An abandoned faculty building we visited last year during our trip to Slovakia and Hungary. I'm not sure about the history, but it's an old building in a functioning university campus in a larger city and seems to have been abandoned for quite some time. It likely used to belong to a...

An interesting spot from our October trip to Slovakia and Hungary. I didn't know we had this spot planned and I wasn't exactly thrilled to find out that it's in the center of Budapest on a sunny Saturday. As many people probably do, I hate spots in the middle of the city during a weekend. When...

Thought I'd make my first report a special one. Flew into Gdansk. Just a hammock, sleeping bag and a bit of kit. The plan was basically hike, explore, find a spot to hang the hammock, repeat. Ended up in some great spots. POLAND Hexengrund Torpedo Station Started at the top. Hiked up to Babie...

Well it's been a while since I've posted anything here! After a recent trip around the lands of the former Austro-Hungarian empire with @Camera Shy & @Cloth Head, I've got the enthusiasm to actually go through roughly 10 years of sites and actually get some reports done. First up was a small...

The F-4 Objektum is a nuclear shelter located underneath downtown Budapest. Its construction began in 1952, at the same time as Line 2 of the metro, to which it has a connection. The bunker is situated 39 metres beneath the surface, and was suitable to accommodate 2,200 people. To maintain...

Another one from our June trip to Hungary, this time a hotel / spa / castle. From what I could find, it was built in the early 1700s by a count family with significant renovations mid-century, a sale in the second half of the 18th century, and another round of renovations plus a large garden in...

As part of our non-industrial June trip to Hungary we visited two morgues along the way to themore interesting stuff. They probably don't warrant separate reports, so I'll put them both here. Morgues are something I don't really seek out, but since they were somewhat along the way and not big...

Another one from our June trip to Hungary. The trip was supposed to be industrial, but we didn't have enough time and industrial locations, so it became hotels-and-morgues trip. Not that I was complaining. This place is in a city next to lake Balaton. I have no idea when it was built or when it...

Hi, I will be staying just outside Budapest and will travel around a fair bit, some Slovakia etc. Any advice on planning the trip? What is urbex called in Hungary? Did you find research should be done in Hungarian? Any must visit places? Anything other than urbex you did there that you'd...

The History Kelenfold Power Station was one of the best in the world when it was built from 1912 to 1914. The building was of unusually modern design for its age, and led the way both in terms of its electricity output (the largest in the world at the time) and in terms of its architecture...

This beautiful but abandoned villa rests on the Várkert fields of Visegrád in Hungary. The 125-year-old Latinovits Villa‘s site has a two-thousand-year-long history with a Roman settlement, orthodox-Christian monastery, gothic church, and children’s holiday resort during the communist era...