New Jersey Glow

in the early morning on Sunday, the 7th of March 2004 by Chad

SlashDot occasionally has a good story. It lead me to this site about a lady in the Ukraine who takes motorcycle rides through Chernobyl. It is a picture gallery. Whole towns, completely deserted. Things left just as they were that day in 1986.
It is now a “tourist attraction” of some sort. The problem is that no tourist wants to stay there more than a few minutes because of the silence. There is nothing around to make noise. So it creeps out everyone.
Some of the pictures are up close and personal, showing what families left behind. Others are wide panorama shots, showing a whole city. Without anyone there.
Wild animals roam the city, happily mutating along. Nature is reclaiming everything.
This is the kind of desolation that scifi stories and addictive first person shooter video games are made of.