The city of Prypiat, near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, lies abandoned 25 years after the world's worst civil nuclear accident.

Pripyat, an abandoned city in northern Ukraine, lies only a few kilometers from the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant and was built in the 1970s to house the plant's workers and their families.

Chernobyl: Haunting photos of abandoned ghost towns 30 years after the nuclear disaster The accident was a result of a mismanaged test at the Soviet nuclear plant, leaving clouds of nuclear matter ...

Now the city, an hour-and-a-half drive from Kiev, is a nuclear ghost town. Forty-nine thousand people were forced to evacuate the day after Chernobyl’s Reactor No. 4 exploded on April 26, 1986.

Pompeii, Chernobyl, Tikal: World’s creepiest ghost towns and abandoned places SOME have been destroyed by man, others by nature. And while once thriving, the world’s ghost cities continue to ...

An abandoned hospital in Pripyat, a town of 47,000-people near Chernobyl nuclear power plant that was completely evacuated within days of the accident, April 2, 2006 AP ...

Chernobyl’s Ghost Cities, Ukraine A decayed house in Chernobyl, Belarus on July 9, 2014. ... shown near the village of Lupsa, Romania on Sept. 20, 2011. DANIEL MIHAILESCU—AFP/Getty Images.

We climbed 16 flights of slippery, icy stairs in an abandoned apartment building — the iron railings long ago pilfered, balcony doors stuck open — until we reached the roof and peered o… ...

Stained glass remains intact at this site near Chernobyl. Photographer Brook Ward became fascinated with Urbex (urban exploration) photography about eight years ago, after he spotted images of ...

5 An Orthodox priest leads a memorial service in the abandoned city of Prypyat marking the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident. Located near the doomed power plant, the city was evacuated ...