▲An employee explains the workings of one of the reactors to journalists.

▲A visitor captures a butterfly resting on his glove, inside one of the reactor rooms.

▲Journalists walk through a corridor at reactor number three.

▲A view of the control room for reactor three. Everything looks almost exactly as it would have back in 1986.

▲A worker measures the radiation levels near reactor four, where the deadly explosion happened.

▲An employee and a journalist emerge from one of the haunting corridors in reactor three.

▲Details from the control panel of reactor three, which today looks almost rudimentary.

▲An abandoned house in the town of Zalesye, close to the Chernobyl Power Plant, is almost hidden from view by dense vegetation.

▲The control panel was used to operate Chernobyl's reactor three.

▲Employees clear away the radioactive dust that still lingers in the area.

▲More than three decades after the accident, the power plant could be considered a popular tourist destination.

▲A telephone sits ominously in the control room of reactor three.

▲An employee passes through one of the dimly-lit corridors in reactor three.

▲This is the New Safe Confinement, a metal structure that was recently built over reactor four. It covers the original "sarcophagus," which was constructed around the reactor to limit radioactive radiation in the aftermath of the explosion in 1986.

▲A lorry spreads water over the tarmac. This prevents nuclear dust from being spread by the wind to surrounding areas.

▲An employee surveys the group, appropriately clad in hat, face mask, a full coat, and shoe covers.

▲In front of a crowd of expectant journalists, a worker measures the radiation levels in the room.

▲Heavily-equipped workers are spotted walking through another eerie corridor in reactor three.

▲An employee leads the journalists through the facilities of the power plant's reactor three.

▲Chernobyl's eerie atmosphere has attracted visitors from far and wide.

▲Stray dogs roam around the plant, with the New Safe Confinement looming behind them.

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A bus transports workers to the new confinement zone, where clean-up projects on reactor four are on-going.

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The tragic date of April 26, 1986 will go down as one of the worst days in human history. The Chernobyl disaster, which happened 37 years ago, was a shocking reminder of the perilous risks involved in handling nuclear power.Today, the area is an eerie ghost town of sorts. Intrigued? Just click on to see for yourself.