Bismuth

One of the great things about ebay and international shipping platforms is that you can get really odd stuff at fairly good prices; it just shows up in your box at the post office.

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Fear: 1

When I went to Pripyat in 2011, it had not yet been opened as a tourist destination. We had to do a bunch of paperwork and pay surcharges (bribes) and fees (official bribes) to get into the exclusion zone as a camera-crew doing a documentary.

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