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Monday, November 1, 2010

City of Skulls


Photo via Elena Chinarina
Forget haunted houses – in Russia, there are entire cities and towns that look haunted. Dark Roasted Blend explains:
We’d like to call them "ghost towns", but they are clearly not abandoned. Amazingly, people still live in them, go to work in harshest possible conditions (paradoxically making it the richest and mightiest industrial area in Russia) and then come "home" to relax in this inhuman weather, non-existing infrastructure, in dangerously dilapidated buildings…
Take, for example, Cherepovetz City ("City of Skulls") shown above. No need for skeletons, monsters, or for that matter, any special effects to make this town terrifying ... 

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