Visit Sunny Chernobyl: Adventures in the World’s Most Polluted Places

Nuclear exclusion zones, cities thick with smog, mid-Pacific islands of rubbish - it’s the planet as you’ve never seen it before

The lifeless moonscape of Canada’s oil sand strip mines.

A vast vortex of plastic floating endlessly around the Pacific.

An eerie abandoned town square in a radioactive Ukrainian wilderness.

These are the places the tourist boards would rather you didn’t see. The places that don’t show up in any guide books. And the places that, six years ago, journalist and film-maker Andrew Blackwell set out to explore. Visit Sunny Chernobyl is the wry, funny, sometimes poignant tale of his trip through the world’s most degraded environments.