It’s also a tourism hotspot, a place where visitors seemingly strip off for selfies in front of abandoned buildings and snap artistically macabre shots of ruined relics. This is Chernobyl ...

Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster which resulted in thousands of deaths, is to become an official tourist attraction, Ukraine’s president has announced. Once at the ...

On Tuesday, HBO's "Chernobyl" earned 19 Emmy nominations, including best limited series and actors Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård and Emily Watson. By the time the big night arrives in ...

Then in May, HBO’s “Chernobyl” miniseries aired, and tourism companies reported a 30 to 40 percent uptick in visitors to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, abandoned and eerily frozen in time.

Pripyat presents the adventurous tourist with a spectacle of abandonment more vivid than anywhere else on Earth, a fever dream of a world gone void. To walk the imposing squares of the planned ...

is one of the agencies offering unauthorized tours of the zone that in 1986 was the scene of the world’s worst nuclear disaster. At one time, the "Stalkers’' attitude to Chernobyl were seen as ...

Cristina Maza is an award-winning journalist who has reported from countries such as Cambodia, Kyrgyzstan, India, Lithuania, Serbia, and Turkey. She previously worked as a reporter for the Phnom ...

"Frankly, if I was asked to be a tourist in the Chernobyl zone, I would reject it," says Valeriy Chaly, Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S. He points out that millions of Ukrainian citizens are still ...

It’s also a tourism hotspot, a place where visitors seemingly strip off for selfies in front of abandoned buildings and snap artistically macabre shots of ruined relics. This is Chernobyl ...

Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster which resulted in thousands of deaths, is to become an official tourist attraction, Ukraine’s president has announced. Once at the ...