What author Richard Happer loves most about abandoned places is that they're everywhere you look — if you look hard enough.
"There are so many of them, right on the doorstep of our everyday worlds," Happer tells Tech Insider. "Hidden beneath our cities, unnoticed on high mountainsides. The more exploring you do, the more abandoned places that you find."
In 2015, Happer published a book, "Abandoned Places: 60 Stories of Places Where Time Stopped," that celebrates the eerie sites around the globe devoid of human residents. He shared some of the images with us.
"Abandoned Places" explores deserted sites on Antarctica, islands in the middle of the Pacific, and even a Six Flags in New Orleans.
For his book, Happer defined "abandoned" as places devoid of human residents, though some are visited by tourists and have new structures nearby.
A nuclear power plant explosion at Chernobyl in 1986 coated this northern Ukraine city in radioactive material. Nature claimed it after the residents fled for safety.
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