ALEX HOBAN
Our Unseen Holiday Photos from Kim Jong-il's North Korea
We dug out the old photo albums on the day the Great Leader went to meet the God he doesn't believe in.
Hoping No One Dies at the North Korean Fun Fair!
Terrorizing the North Korean proletariat with Kim Il-Sung's roller coaster of doom.
A Fun Day Out at the Other Chernobyl
For some reason they let me in a place that could destroy the planet.
My Awkward First Date in the Abandoned Soviet Military Complex
Because rubble is the biggest aphrodisiac of them all.
Leninist Christmas Utopia Theme Parks Aren't Built in a Day
What you're looking at is not just a collection of weird little communist cars, dilapidated slaughterhouses, and idly grazing livestock. It is actually the site upon which will one day stand Europe's No. 1 Leninist Christmas Utopia.
Atlas Hoods - Estonian Prison Wank Banks
Back in 1820, hard Russian Tsar Nicholas I built a massive prison on the Baltic coast just outside of Tallinn, which was so good at making prisoners cower remorsefully before the might of the hegemon that it remained in commission right up until 2004.
China Has Music Festivals Too
They're like our festivals, except with thousands of police and places to use weaponry.
The Curse Of Japan's Futurist Space Base
Before the 90s economic collapse, this is what the future was going to look like for Japan.
China Has Music Festivals Too!
The nice people from Zebra Music Festival invited me all the way out to Sichuan province to prove that fun exists in China and that it is definitely not a totalitarian communist state hell bent on stamping out every last bit of creativity in its quest...
China Has Music Festivals Too!
The nice people from Zebra Music Festival invited me all the way out to Sichuan province to prove that fun exists in China and that it is definitely not a totalitarian communist state hell bent on stamping out every last bit of creativity in its quest...
Lebanon's Waxwork Museum
Just outside Beirut, in the town of Jounieh, stands one of the Middle East’s foremost tourist attractions.
Lebanon's Waxwork Museum
Just outside Beirut, in the town of Jounieh, stands one of the Middle East's foremost tourist attractions. An oasis of opulence and grandeur, Lebanon's 'Hall of Fame Wax Museum' provides a bolt-hole for the unfortunate celebrities who find themselves...