Utopias

An underground city beneath Krakow's postwar socialist utopia.

This historical marker is all that remains of Octagon City, Kansas, a failed vegetarian utopia.

A massive, gleaming sea turtle with a rider atop its shell looks out over the horizon.

Utopia and nostalgia mingle at the site of Bronson Alcott's ill-fated agrarian commune.

An artist’s underground sanctuary, 40 years in the making.

A series of concentric circles represented a bold new experiment in socialist urban planning, and it notoriously difficult to get around.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.

An exercise in radical design and social living that became the epicenter of Soviet spy networks in London.

This Greek cinema was architecturally inspired by Mussolini's vision of a fascist Mediterranean utopia.

The Swiss hilltop housed an early 20th-century vegetarian nudist colony.

Mediums from a psychic utopian community lead a trippy VR journey on a parked desert bus.