Welcome to the city that time forgot.

Eerily empty amusement parks, homes, hospitals, schools and other Soviet-era institutions remain untouched in the Ukrainian city of Pripyat, where the Chernobyl nuclear power plant melted down nearly 30 years ago.

Amateur photographer Roland Verant, a 35-year-old insurance company clerk from Vienna, toured the dangerous city with a guide who made sure they steered clear of radioactive patches.

“I was assured that I would not be taken to the dangerously `hot’ places and that a competent guide would be equipped with a Geiger counter on the trip, so I wouldn’t need to worry, as long as I followed some basic rules,” Verant said.

The April 26, 1986, meltdown is widely considered the worst nuclear accident in world history, rivaled only by the storm-related Fukushima disaster of 2011.