High in the Arctic, on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, stands one of the ...

An eerie silence descends on this abandoned mining settlement in the Arctic, interspersed with furious winds emitting high-pitched fatuous noises as they whip past empty buildings. A large bust of ...

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Russian provocations on the archipelago of Svalbard are driving up tensions at the top of the world. A Soviet-era Playboy model smiles coyly from a torn poster hanging in the men’s dormitory. Nearby, ...

Things get stranger the farther away you are from home, and wherever you come from, there’s nowhere farther than the North Pole. That’s where Longyearbyen is located. It somehow resides on an Arctic ...

People say that the Soviet town of Pyramiden was abandoned overnight. In reality, however, the desertion occurred over a period of months. But a visitor arriving in Pyramiden in the fall of 1998 would ...

A PHOTOGRAPHER has captured a these spooky snaps of a Soviet-era ghost town which really is frozen in time. Abandoned in 1998, the town of Pyramiden still features eerie elements left behind by the ...

Pyramiden, an abandoned coal-mining settlement in Russia, is one of the world's northernmost towns and a frozen-in-time example of Soviet-era culture. Source: National Geographic, The New York Times ...

With Stalinist architecture, a prominent bust of Lenin and posters extolling the motherland, the desolate mining town of Pyramiden is one of the last Soviet outposts in the Arctic. The journey to ...