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The Soviet sanatorium shaped like a spaceship
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Vacationing in a building shaped like a stranded alien mothership is peak Soviet leisure. Resting heavily on the shores of Kyrgyzstan's Issyk-Kul lake, the Aurora Sanatorium was erected in 1979 to reward communist elites with bizarre hydrotherapy treatments, all wrapped in a towering, concrete brutalist aesthetic that completely ignores its natural surroundings.
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