Places That Are Famous for the Strangest Reasons

Pripyat was a young, thriving Soviet city, built for the workers of the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It had schools, apartment blocks, and even an amusement park set to open. Then, on April 26, 1986, everything stopped. Following the explosion at the plant, the entire city of nearly 50,000 people was evacuated in a matter of hours. They were told it was temporary; they never returned. Now, Pripyat is a ghost city, frozen in time. Its image is defined by the eerie, silent Ferris wheel, a symbol of a future that never arrived.