
Abandoned Spa Town & Castle Ruins
Urban explorers Josh and Cody split up for this episode of Lost Places, one chasing crumbling grandeur in France, the other riding into Soviet decay in Georgia. Cody teams up with rooftopper Harry Gallagher for a ride on the cable car locals call "Stalin's coffin," heading up to an abandoned Soviet-era spa town left to rot in the mountains. Meanwhile Josh links up with fellow explorer Lexie Limitless to track down a derelict French chateau, picking through empty rooms and overgrown grounds for traces of who lived there. The camera work favors long handheld walkthroughs of decaying stairwells, peeling wallpaper, and rusted spa fittings, with the two hosts narrating what they find as they find it rather than working from a script. There's no historian on hand to fill in the backstory in depth, but the pairing of a Soviet spa resort and a French castle ruin gives the episode two distinct flavors of abandonment in one sitting.