Gdansk

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Image of Falowiec located in Gdansk, Poland | View of 'the wave.'
Gdansk, Poland

Falowiec

Communist-era residential block is the longest residential building in Europe

Built throughout the Polish city of Gdansk in the late 1960s and 70s, falowiec means "wavy block" and is a type of architecture that has a wavy shape in both its body - the main structure - and... »

Architectural Oddities | Edited by reneejudith and Nicholas Jackson

Image of Cemetery of Lost Cemeteries located in Gdansk, Poland | Cemetery of Lost Cemeteries.
Gdansk, Poland

Cemetery of Lost Cemeteries

Memorial to the lost dead of Gdansk, whose resting places were destroyed during World War II

Before World War II broke out, the Polish city of Gdansk was home to 27 different graveyards and a necropolis. All of those were destroyed during the war or bulldozed after it. Decades later, on... »

Memento Mori, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries | Edited by reneejudith, Nicholas Jackson and others