As the Iron Curtain was dismantled across Eastern Europe, the island was abandoned ... The Italian island of Poveglia has gone down in history as one of the world’s most haunted places. In the plague ...

Christian Richter spent his teens exploring abandoned buildings in what was then Communist East Germany ... able to capture the beauty of these old places. They are very peaceful places because ...

CHARLES: This is a common situation in Bulgaria - actually, in lots of places ... abandoned farmland turned into forests. More recently, farmers have walked away from land in eastern Europe ...