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.

Amusement parks are usually filled with laughter and excitement. But the one in Chernobyl, located in the abandoned town of ...

Haunting drone footage shows what the Chernobyl nuclear power plant looks like almost three decades after it was left devastated by an historic toxic explosion. The eerie bird’s eye view shows how the ...

Sometimes interest in tourism is sparked not by where you can go but where you can't. Such seems to be the case with Pripyat, Chernobyl, in the Ukraine, a ghost town of a city that is at the center of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PRIPYAT, Ukraine — It’s an eerily empty city ...

Fifty years ago, the Soviet Union inaugurated the town of Pripyat, built to house workers of the Chernobyl power plant. One nuclear engineer, Oleksiy Breus, told RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service about his ...

Travel into the radioactive basement of Pripyat Hospital in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. The first responders to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident were the firemen of Pripyat. They absorbed ...