
Few places in the world are as eerie or as heartbreaking as Chernobyl, the location of the catastrophic nuclear disaster in 1986. As a result of history’s most disastrous power plant accident, the city was evacuated and entry is strictly regulated by the Ukrainian government. This abandoned mansion is just one of the many dilapidated houses that remain in the toxic town, a lingering reminder of the thousands who have died since the disaster.