These Ghost Towns Once Thronged With Life
▻https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/05/160501-atlas-lost-cities-ghost-town-travel-chernobyl-pompeii-ngbooktalk/?sf228435134=1
Isn’t it a tad creepy to be obsessed with ruins? Aude de Tocqueville doesn’t think so. For her, they hold a mysterious, poetic fascination that no living city can match. In her new book, Atlas of Lost Cities: A Travel Guide to Abandoned and Forsaken Destinations, de Tocqueville sets off on a journey of exploration to 44 places that once thronged with life but now lie dead and often buried. On the way, she discovers that, like us, cities are mortal. (Experience Chernobyl’s haunting ruins in 360-degree photos.)