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.

Once a home to 50,000 people, it was urgently abandoned three days after the explosion in Chernobyl’s reactor No.4. Within hours, the site became a ghost town and has remained relatively ...