Business Insider recently traveled to Pripyat, a city in northern Ukraine that was evacuated and abandoned after the ...

In the aftermath, Pripyat was evacuated just a day after the explosion, turning it into a ghost town almost instantly. This tragic history remains palpable in the stillness of the streets, where ...

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.

Though it’s referred to as ‘Scotland’s Chernobyl’, the moniker actually likens the estate to the Ukrainian town of Pripyat, 10 miles north-west of the infamous nuclear plant. Once a home ...