When most Americans plan vacations, they don’t think about radioactive zones. Yet, Chernobyl tourism has become something much deeper. I’ve walked those empty streets myself. It felt like stepping ...

Further down the road, and we get our first proper view of the reactor. Its a pretty awe (or fear) inspiring sight, and the people on the tour are getting a lot quieter, and maybe a bit more nervous ...

German traveler Carsten Möhrke recently unearthed a photograph taken during a flight he took in August 2012, revealing an unsettling radiation reading on his Geiger counter. Traveling from his home in ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Geiger counters are used to detect and measure levels of radioactivity. Scientists invented the ...