ALEX HOBAN
The Country That Doesn't Exist
Out on the fringes of the former USSR, in one little pocket of Eastern Europe, the trauma of the Soviet Empire's collapse has never quite been shaken off.
Abandoned Japanese Islands and Beyond
If you've been reading Viceland for a while, you'll remember the absurdly popular blog that Alex Hoban wrote about Battleship Island, the abandoned island of high rise buildings which was once the most densely populated place on earth.
The Biggest Collection Of Pickled Cocks On Earth
When I asked Vice for money to hire a car so I could meet a man who collects penises, they glared.
Marx: “REVOLUTION IS NO PICNIC”. Marxists: “YES COMRADE, IT IS.”
Five days with a bunch of Marxists who really like having picnics.
Asbestos Doom at The Millenium Mills
There's more to Docklands the grime MCs, you know. Like this huge abandoned mill.
Chairman Mao's Underground City
We broke into the secret underground city built beneath Beijing, large enough to accommodate six million people had nuclear war shat all over China, and discovered that there were still people living there.
Chairman Mao's Underground City
In 1969, Chairman Mao commanded the construction of a second Beijing beneath the surface of the original city, designed to accommodate all six million of its then inhabitants so that if nuclear war did kick off, folk would still have somewhere to hang...
DO NOT LET CAT OUT
If my grandma had a tag name, it's got to be either "Don't Let Cat Out" or "Watch for Cat." She bombs the shit out of her crib with Sharpie markers just so the cat will never taste freedom.
SEOUL'S JUMBO HUNK OF JUNK
One afternoon in Seoul, while bored and looking for anything to occupy my time, a guy I’d met a few days earlier told me he’d heard a rumour that a giant Boeing 747 had been dumped inexplicably on the doorstep of a housing complex out in the suburbs...
All Slammer, No Glamour: The Reluctant North Korean Film Star
As far as strange and unusual punishment goes, being forced to be a film star rates highly.