I just found this and thought it was interesting:
A motorcycle ride through Chernobyl.
It's a collection of photos taken around Chernobyl and Pripyat.
"As I pass through the check point, I feel that I have entered an unreal world. In the dead zone, the silence of the villages, roads, and woods seem to tell something at me....something that I strain to hear....something that attracts and repels me both at the same time. It is divinely eerie - like stepping into that Salvador Dali painting with the dripping clocks."

That is really disturbing. I remember the event, remember people being scared, because noone knew exactly which way the cloud was blowing. Seeing these remnants of an active city, left in a hurry without looking back, is really eerie. I can't imagine what it must have been like, being there, neither back then, nor today.

History Channel did a show about what Earth would be like if all the people on the planet suddenly disappeared (since turned into a series called "Life After People"). For an example of what could happen to our towns and cities, they used Chernobyl. I think the most disturbing thing they showed was a pre-school, where all the children's drawings and crayons were still out on tables as if they had just left them there moments before.

I remember the event myself, it was the most elaborate birthday present I've ever had. Personally I'd have preferred a few new games...
Some of those pictures have a distinctly Fallout feel to them

Going to Pripiyat is on my list of things to do before I die.

Perhaps immediately before...
I certainly have an interest in the place myself, if I get this job I applied for I might make a trip of it

Yeah, people say it's safer in Pripiyat and you won't die of radiaton provided you get the fuck out in a few days or something.

Yeah, it's been on my list of things to do before I die as well. My interest pretty much started with finding that website long ago, too.
Vice Magazine has a pretty interesting snippet from the VBS Vice Guide to Travel series where they go boar hunting around the Chernobyl area: http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=715959234
Incidental: For fans of S.T.A.L.K.E.R., read the novella Roadside Picnic and watch the film Stalker.
Incidental x2: That Life After People series sounds exactly like the book The World Without Us, which I've been wanting very badly to read.

finishing one of the stalker games is on my list of things to do before I can no longer play games.

Whatever you do, don't get Clear Sky.

I had the first one, and didn't like it, I got clear sky for $9.99

If you thought the first one was shitty... you'll find the prequel... shittier.

I never got either, my laptop isn't the most powerful gaming machine and for an FPS I have to turn down the detail to the extent that it looks like a quake 3 engine game. In a normal FPS thats annoying but in a big immersive thing like stalker its a deal breaker. Suppose the upside is that it'll be cheaper by the time I get a gaming rig (hopefully on GOG)