Apart from being a musician, journalist, and “confirmed bohemian”, Darmon Richter is also pretty good at urban exploring. He regularly visits abandoned or derelict buildings, and captures footage of their insides for his blog, The Bohemian Blog.

One of Richter’s recent trips saw him explore a very creepy abandoned Soviet nuclear bunker in Bulgaria. It is located underneath an old Soviet site known as the “Park-Monument of the Bulgarian-Soviet Friendship”. Access to the bunker has been welded shut, but, Richter gained access via a hidden entrance with the help of a local guide.

On previous visits I had followed the flight of austere stone steps that form the main approach up to the imposing monument above; instead my guide led me around the side of the hill, following a footpath that skirted a circumference beneath the dappled shade of thick green canopies. Pausing at a clearing in the bushes roughly a quarter of the way around, he gestured towards the mound itself – and there, set deep into the vegetation that bordered our path, I spied the rocky opening.

Richter also brought back the below, unnerving images:

[Source: Business Insider]