The so-called "Sniper Tower" is an abandoned high-rise building located near the centre of Mostar. It was originally a bank building known as the Centre for Education and Culture. But everything changed during the Bosnian war in the 1990s. The bank sits on a steep hill and, thanks to its height and impressive view, had a long run as a sniper tower during the siege of Mostar. It was completely abandoned after the end of the war. At the moment the whole building is newly secured with bars against intrusion, but all that remains are bare walls liberally riddled with bullet holes. Unfortunately, there's nothing left to see.

A fascinating Yugoslav monument from the 1980s, officially "I hope" it is called "Monument to the Uprising of the People of Kordun and Banij" or maybe "The Square of Brotherhood and Unity", but it's hard to say... It was meant to be a memorial to the Serbian peasants who died fighting the Ustasha militias in the 1940s. When designing, one of the important requirements (among others) was that the building had to be taller than the surrounding trees :o)) It's a really brutal, huge building and while walking between the floors, it didn't seem to me at all that the space should have any logic, it's kind of hop here, hop there and nothing anywhere, and yet this memorial was supposed to include a larger museum, a congress hall for 250 people, a café, a library reading room, but all these plans never came to fruition. It was never fully completed and went straight from new construction to a state of gradual decay in a standard Balkan way, but anyway this place is worth a visit, it is definitely the biggest "monument" I have ever seen.

This beautiful villa with rental apartments, which probably once provided quite luxurious housing, is now slowly falling into disrepair, the ceilings are caving in. All that remains of the original furnishings is a tiled stove here and there and the occasional broken bathtub or sink.

In this little factory, it kind of looked like the workers went home after their shift and never came back because the building started falling down on their heads, but it's been a long time :o) In the offices there were all sorts of binders full of papers, computers and the usual office equipment on desks, and pieces of the crumbling ceiling and walls being attacked. In the basement, shelves full of all sorts of parts and spare parts, Lots of machinery and equipment in the buildings, it was just beautiful.

This was a really interesting watch, the hystorical trains trapped under the collapsed roof gave this place a special charm and also a bit of sadness at the same time. Sorry for the poor quality of the photos, but as I've written here many times, I'm the world's worst photographer :o)), nevertheless, it was beautiful.

This was an interesting place, an old depot, literally in the middle of the woods. It's amazing how nature can take back what once belonged to it. The only building left standing on this site is the depot itself. There is no trace of the tracks and other infrastructure outside, only the terrain in front of the building, a bit "dug" in a circle, gives a hint that there used to be a turntable and a chimney stands a bit sadly behind. But otherwise, just trees and all sorts of scrub. Inside, there is nothing at all, just an empty building, vainly remembering its former glory days :o)

It's two apartment buildings across the street from each other, they're really run down and from the looks of it, the Squatters probably stayed there for a while. There wasn't much to see, just a closet or a couch here and there. And mainly a collection of stoves of various kinds and dry shitholes, fattened according to the skill of the tenant :o)))

There is not much to see in this brewery anymore, it is slowly falling apart and overgrown with all sorts of vegetation. But it was still worth a visit.

There is not much left of the whole factory, just empty halls in a rather advanced state of decay. Where is the former glory of this legend.

It is the command post of the Supreme Command of the Southwestern Forces of the Soviet Army, used under the Warsaw Pact. Similar facilities were also built in Belarus, Ukraine, Russia and Azerbaijan. This giant bunker consists of two huge cylindrical blocks about 35 meters in diameter and is 7 stories deep. The size is truly staggering. I have researched somewhere that the cost at the time of construction, (which was sometime in the mid 1980s) cost nearly 32 million rubles. The walls of all the rooms inside are completely made of steel, which attracts the local metal collectors, who with really no small effort are slowly chipping away the metal walls of one of the two buildings, (the one with an exposed ceiling which was about 1.5 to 2 meters of concrete), how they did it I have no idea, but there is a big excavator with a hydraulic hammer nearby, I guess it's worth it to them... Not far from here, there is a slowly crumbling apartment building, apparently it was supposed to house the crew that was supposed to work on the building. Next to the semi-dilapidated building is the chimney of the boiler house, but it was most likely never built.

Somehow by chance, while "passing by", I peeked into a long forgotten, a bit mysterious park, which was surrounded by a wall all around. This area, with a mansion, was built in the early 19th century by Countess Ecaterina Rosetti-Roznovan. The mansion is one of the first built in the classical architectural style, which appeared in Bessarabia in the 1830s. Later, in the mid-1950s, it was converted by the Soviets into a hospital and (presumably) abandoned after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It is located in the small town of Lipcani, a short distance from the tri-border of Moldova, Romania and Ukraine. There was the aforementioned castle, several smaller houses and small buildings, and a summer cinema, where of course there was a plaque of the eternal Vladimir on the wall, and a larger-than-life statue of the aforementioned behind the wall. The whole area is already in a rather miserable state and completely overgrown with all kinds of thickets. But it was worth a short visit.

Visited sort of on the way around. There is not much left to photograph here, the heating plant is in "standard" impoverished condition. But it was definitely worth a short stop.

Our second visit to this mine, when we tried to "catch up" with what we missed last time. Please excuse (again) the poor quality of the photos, but it won't be better with me :o))

This mine is much larger than we expected. In the almost 7 hours we spent in its bowels, we walked quite a few kilometers, I think it could have been 10, and we didn't climb everything we wanted to. (Another X. kilometers could have been done there :o)) It's really big and has a lot of floors. Admittedly, we were a bit unprepared because we weren't expecting it, but in any case it was a very pleasant afternoon.

The railway station in the tiny village of Hum in Bosnia and Herzegovina near the town of Trebinje, including the entire village, was a sad witness to the Yugoslav war in the 1990s. The entire station and the whole village were destroyed in the fighting and most of the buildings are still in their wartime state. It's a very sad sight indeed.

There's not much left in these barracks, they're basically completely empty buildings and what couldn't be stolen is trashed. And despite the fact that there is literally nothing there, the barracks are pretty well guarded :o((

hotel complex on the island of Krk.

The submarine base in Montenegro.

It is a submarine base, located inside a rock with two entrances :o))) Interestingly, one of the submarines that was anchored in this base was given to the Czech Republic as a compensation for some debt. It was supposed to be placed in Prague as a museum, but unfortunately nobody could figure out how to get it to the Czech Republic, so it stayed in Albania. Until about 15 years ago she was moored (along with three others) outside in the bay, but today she is nowhere to be found. I had a photo somewhere, but I can't find it.

A former top secret airport located on the border of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, near the town of Bihać. The airport was used between 1968 and 1992. In the early 1990s it was destroyed during the withdrawal of JNA troops during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.