Business Insider recently traveled to Pripyat, an abandoned town next to Chernobyl. Pripyat was evacuated right after the 1986 disaster at the nuclear power plant. The city is a complete ghost town.

Natalia Shevchuk gazes at the peeling walls inside her old flat and tears run down her cheeks: 32 years after the Chernobyl disaster she is finally revisiting her childhood home in the ghost town of ...

Most of the buildings in this nuclear-disaster-devastated city are in such decay that visitors are advised not to enter them, a caution that many ignore. As featured on ...

A 2-day tour of Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone. Explore Pripyat, the nuclear power plant, and the ghost town affected by the ...

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The word Chernobyl became known worldwide shortly after the 1986 blast. The small town Pripyat, situated just 3 km from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, up to this day serves to remind about the ...

It was a day more suited to a T-shirt and shorts, but that could never be adhered to in this place — even if the sun was shining. Closed shoes, long sleeves and bottoms are required as full body ...

Abandoned towns tend to feel louder than they look. Wind bangs a loose door, metal creaks, and suddenly a whole vanished community seems awake again. Ghost towns capture the moment when work, weather, ...