This fascinating photo series looks at the bleak isolation of Chernobyl as never before. Employing infrared filters, photographer Vladimir Mitgutin is able to bring out details of decay – an abandoned bus, a radar system, an amusement park, a doll, a sports hall, a piano – frozen in time. Here: Simon – a friendly fox, who often approaches tourists in the exclusion zone, asking for food. (Photo by Vladimir Mitgutin/Caters News Agency)

This photo taken on November 1, 2020 shows tourists taking photographs of the figure of an elephant made of rice straw in an amusement park on the shores of Huay Tueng Thao lake outside Chiang Mai. (Photo by Mladen Antonov/AFP Photo)

A Tibetan man stands nearby as a young tourist poses for photos on a white yak at the shore of the lake in Namtso in western China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, as seen during a government organized visit for foreign journalists, Wednesday, June 2, 2021. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)

Made Mohon, the operation manager of Sangeh Monkey Forest, feeds macaques with donated peanuts during a feeding time at the popular tourist attraction site in Sangeh, Bali Island, Indonesia, Wednesday, September 1, 2021. (Photo by Firdia Lisnawati/AP Photo)

Aymara indigenous women “Martha La Altena” (El Alto's Martha) (R) and “Susana La Bonita” (Pretty Susana) take part in a freestyle wrestling flight in El Alto, on June 29, 2018. “Cholita Fighters” aim to include their show in a tourist route. (Photo by Aizar Raldes/AFP Photo)

Mainland Chinese tourists run along a promenade during a typhoon in Hong Kong, Monday, July 17, 2023. Schools and the stock market were closed in Hong Kong on Monday as Typhoon Talim swept south of the city. (Photo by Louise Delmotte/AP Photo)

A macaque climbs on a visitor at Phra Prang Sam Yot temple in Lopburi, Thailand on February 25, 2024. Although the thousands of macaques living in town are a tourists' attraction, many complain that they harass residents and damage houses and businesses while deterring potential visitors. (Photo by Valeria Mongelli/Anadolu via Getty Images)

A tourist wearing Hanfu, a style of clothing traditionally worn by the Han people, poses for a photo with blooming cherry blossoms on International Women's Day on March 8, 2024 in Kunming, Yunnan Province of China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)