Written reports and photographs from people visiting the lost schools of Pripyat document sorry scenes including forgotten toys, exercise books with the pages still open, rotting desks and child-sized gas masks strewn across classroom floors. Many of the buildings in Pripyat are too dangerous to access, so always listen to your licensed guide – you’ll need one to enter the exclusion zone as a tourist.

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Creepy abandoned classrooms where school is out, forever