DARGAVS, Russia -- A Moscow-based film company has dropped its plans to shoot a low-budget horror thriller at the village of Dargavs near a fabled medieval necropolis in southern Russia. That's ...

Located on the edge of the village of Dargavs, in the republic of North Ossetia–Alania, in Russia, is an ancient cemetery or necropolis. It is often called the ‘city of the dead’, although the name is ...

Hidden away in the Caucasus mountains, a city awaits that holds such a grim history — locals believe those who enter the eerie city will never return. A cluster of peaked rooves and single window ...

The Dargavs Necropolis is a strange place in every respect. It consists of “houses with windows”, with skulls, skeletons and mummified body parts inside. There used to be writing on the wall of one of ...

If you think your country’s quarantine measures are strict, come to the North Ossetian village of Dargavs. In plague times, locals would have to move into the local necropolis… often for good. North ...