"Ghost Town" - notes from the dead zone This was actually popular a month or two ago, but it was so popular the site was taken down. A beautiful, epic pictorial essay from a Russian woman who reports on her rides through the Chernobyl "dead zone" from her 147hp Kawasaki Ninja, equipped with dosimeter. If you've ever seen the brilliant movie "Stalker", this is it in real life - abandoned projects, hotels with trees in the rooms, and rusted tanks in the middle of fields: