The Pripyat Amusement Park was built right before the Chernobyl disaster. - Claudia Himmelreich/McClatchy DC/Tribune News Service/Getty Image Hardly anyone outside Ukraine had even heard of this ...

In 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in then Soviet-controlled Ukraine exploded, sending a radioactive plume across Europe. The effects were devastating and the disaster's ...

The Chornobyl nuclear disaster was one of the worst catastrophes ... It covers a number of unusual locations in Chornobyl and the ghost town of Pripyat – such as the aforementioned amusement park, an ...

No one got to ride this Ferris wheel before or after the Chernobyl disaster. The amusement park now exists for the morbid observations of tourists. Pripyat’s evacuated population has been replaced by ...