# Abandoned Soviet-Era Building in Bulgaria **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 7, 2012, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994 "2012-03-07T01:20:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/21 "2012-03-08T04:43:50Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > I want to live there. I have dibs. I would rename it “Splendid Isolation”. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/22 "2012-03-08T11:02:09Z")
Great pictures, thanks for sharing. > [@jjimm](#): > > Looks like somebody’s been playing around in the third level of Inception. I was seriously wondering if the fortress in Inception was inspired by it. I’d say it’s fairly likely, as it’s not just the shape of the building but the location as well. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/23 "2012-03-08T17:37:46Z")
It looks like an enormous electric fryer. Especially with the concentric reddish lighting on the ceiling in the old pics. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/24 "2012-03-08T23:45:47Z")
> [@kirk1168](#): > > That is the coolest evil-genius lair EVER!!! I’ll take it! Totally awesome. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/25 "2012-03-08T23:48:55Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > I’ll take it! > > Totally awesome. Get in line. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/26 "2012-03-09T00:21:40Z")
I’ll start the bidding at 50 quatloos. Or 1000 samoleans, which ever is greater. I can’t believe that hasn’t been used as a location shoot for Hellboy 3 or Blade 4 or some other freaky sic-fi/horror movie or something. That place totally fucking rocks! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/27 "2012-03-09T00:43:26Z")
Now we know where the Jupiter II crash landed. It was on Earth all the time. You BASTARDS!! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/28 "2012-03-09T15:46:05Z")
They’ve discovered Skald’s Secret Lab, and boy is he gonna be pissed. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/29 "2012-03-09T17:02:40Z")
Is it wrong that while looking at the overhead photos I was thinking “where is the parking lot?” I totally thought it was from _Inception_, too 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/30 "2012-03-09T18:07:11Z")
Holy Crap that’s awesome! It needs to be in the next [Cracked.com](http://Cracked.com) list for supervillain hideouts! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994.md?page=1)