The memorial and museum are found in Oświęcim, Poland and are open almost every day of the year. Chernobyl tours have not been operating since the start of the Ukraine-Russia war (Getty/iStock) The ...

but thrillseekers can visit Chernobyl (and many similar places like it) after its radiation levels were deemed safe enough to allow for tourism. As one of the world's most infamous disaster sites ...

The Chernobyl zone saw its tourism increase twofold after the lauded television miniseries of 2019 and officials hope that level of interest will continue, or grow, once the global pandemic has ...

Some popular examples of dark tourism are Chernobyl, the 9/11 memorial and the concentration camp Auschwitz. J. John Lennon, a professor of tourism at Glasgow Caledonian University, who coined the ...

MOSCOW, July 11. /TASS/. Expanding tourist capacity in the Chernobyl zone requires meaningful steps to ensure the security of visitors, independent Russian expert on nuclear power, Atominfo portal ...

Travelers seeking the eerie and unexplained can explore destinations like Aokigahara Forest, Bhangarh Fort, and Chernobyl.

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...

Thrilling horror about the dangers of extreme tourism… in Chernobyl. An offbeat guide leads six holidaymakers into the town that’s been deserted for 25 years. But are they alone?

But war was a scenario its engineers never envisioned. A Ukrainian air defense unit illuminating a hole in the steel shield at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant last month. The fire started by the ...