Pripyat is a ghost town, but far more famous is a small village after which a nuclear power plant was named. The plant is the epitome of shoddy construction, megalomania, Soviet propaganda, secrecy, "apparatchiks", negligence, carelessness and disaster. We are talking about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, whose third block literally exploded in 1986 and has since cost thousands of people their lives and health. This lifeless, irradiated and largely abandoned place has now become a tourist hotspot. There are many documentaries and detailed specialist literature about the events of 1986. This article therefore does not deal with the causes, but with the current state, the so-called dark tourism, which portrays the village of Chernobyl and its only "hotel" as a veritable "health resort". According to official information from the Ukrainian government, it is completely safe to take a trip into the actual exclusion zone. Yes, you can even stand around very close to the new sarcophagus of the accident reactor and take photos for Instagram and the like. But selfies in such a place do seem a bit disrespectful. At the beginning it was just a few poor people who plundered Pripyat in order to get some money, but later it was crazy guys who were looking for a “kick”. Nowadays it is no longer a question of “a little sightseeing”, it has become big business. Every year tens of thousands of people are brought in and led through the exclusion zone. A day tour including lunch in the power plant can be had from the equivalent of 89 euros. There are even “holiday stays” lasting several days.