22 Creepiest Abandoned Places Around The World

1. Pripyat, Ukraine

Ridgeway Tunnel
Efrem Lukatsky/AP

Once home to almost 50,000 people, Pripyat was abandoned in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 that rendered the area uninhabitable.

The city will remain a memorial to the disaster for thousands of years, as the radiation fall out has almost irrevocably poisoned the area.

 
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