Business Insider recently traveled to Pripyat, a city in northern Ukraine that was evacuated and abandoned after the ...

Now their only residents are hurdles of cattle and the occasional adventure explorers meandering like ghosts around the arched verandas and stone façades of hundreds of abandoned villas.

Readers might think of an eerie street with abandoned houses and ... our ghost towns are typically an overgrown cemetery preserved only in memory and some old photos at the library.

an abandoned town next to Chernobyl. Pripyat was evacuated right after the 1986 disaster at the nuclear power plant. The city is a complete ghost town. These photos show what it's like now.