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Croatia, 2015 - An abandoned doll lies on a rail track in Tovarnik, along which migrants, mostly Syrian, were traveling after trekking northwards through the Balkans from Greece.

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Croatia, 2015 - At the time, around 29,000 people were passing through Croatia en route to wealthier countries in the west and north of the European Union.

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Chile, 2010 - A doll hangs in front of an unoccupied house in Constitución city after one of the strongest earthquakes on record and a tsunami killed hundreds. The disasters left destroyed cities and villages along the country's south-central coastline.

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United States, 2007 - A doll lies in the charred rubble of a home in the Rancho Santa Fe area of San Diego following the towering wildfires that ravaged through Southern California, forcing more than 500,000 people to flee.

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United States, 2007 - A doll lies in the backyard of a mobile home in Hudson Oaks, Texas, where three children and their mother were found hanged. An 8-month-old baby was also found hanging but survived.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2007 - Charred dolls hang from a wall in an orphanage in Sarajevo where five babies died and 17 babies and a nurse were injured in a fire.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2007 - Charred cradles, baby beds, teddy bears, and dolls could be seen scattered around the three gutted rooms.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2007 - Firefighters rescued 23 children from the three rooms that were worst affected by the fire.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2007 - One of the babies was dead when first responders arrived, and the other four died shortly after.

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Mexico, 2018 - This doll was left behind by a young Central American migrant on the fence at the El Chaparral port of entry border crossing between Mexico and the US. She is part of a caravan of thousands who are trying to enter the US.

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Mexico, 2018 - A doll belonging to a Central American migrant, part of a caravan trying to reach the US, is pictured along the highway to Arriaga from Pijijiapan.

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Greece, 2015 - A doll belonging to a stranded Iranian migrant hangs from barbed wire in front of Macedonian police at the Greek-Macedonian border near the Greek village of Idomeni.

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Greece, 2015 - The stranded migrants were protesting against what they say was the closure of the border for Iranian migrants.

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Serbia, 2015 - A teddy bear is seen on razor wire at the border crossing with the Hungarian town of Roszke, in Horgos.

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Northern Ireland, 2015 - A doll is seen on a fence near an illegal dump on Slieve-na-Aura mountain, near the village of Cargan, where heavy snow resulted in the closure of schools across the country.

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Spain, 2015 - Women sit among dolls meant to be donated to low-income families on the morning of January 6 during the Christian holiday of the Epiphany. In Spain, children believe that the Three Wise Men deliver their Christmas presents.

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Greece, 2013 - The historic Prosfygika complex in Athens, built in the 1930s to house Greeks fleeing Turkey, has become active once again as Greece's economic slump has increased the number of homeless.

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Syria, 2013 - A doll hangs from a wall of a damaged bedroom filled with debris in the besieged area of Homs.

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United States, 2012 - Christmas ornaments and other toys are seen among the remains of homes destroyed as a consequence of Hurricane Sandy in the Breezy Point area of New York's borough of Queens.

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United States, 2011 - A toy doll hangs from the US-Mexico border fence in Naco, Arizona.

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United States, 2011 - A doll sits amid the ruins of homes damaged in the deadly tornadoes that hit Tuscaloosa on April 27.

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Japan, 2011 - Debris and other items retrieved by firemen are seen among ruins in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, after the area was ravaged by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami.

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Belgium, 2010 - Peace activists hung a doll with two heads on a fence of the Kleine Brogel military base to protest against nuclear weapons.

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Serbia, 2015 - An abandoned teddy bear lies on the ground near the Croatian border, close to the village of Berkasovo.

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Spain, 2013 - A doll lies in a shop window a day after a fire broke out in a store in the Andalusian capital of Seville.

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Sri Lanka, 2004 - Personal items lie abandoned in the mud on December 31 in Paraliya following the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami that killed nearly 228,000 people.

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Brazil, 2014 - A doll's head lies in sewage running through a formerly deserted building, which eventually became a home to dozens of families in Rio de Janeiro.

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United States, 1947 - A child's dolls lies in a trunk, left behind when the inhabitants slowly left Portsmouth Island, located off the coast of North Carolina. The island now sits abandoned. 

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Chernobyl, 2017 - This image and the ones that follow were taken by photographer Gleb Garanich in the town of Pripyat, which has been abandoned since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

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Chernobyl, 2017 - Its schools and hospitals appear untouched since the town was hurriedly evacuated in April 1986.

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Chernobyl, 2017 - Buildings are littered with discarded gas masks, as Soviet propaganda continues to hang on the walls, and children's dolls are scattered about.

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Chernobyl, 2017 - Many of the dolls have been moved by visitors to the area.

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Chernobyl, 2017 - Visitors have been placing the dolls on the derelict bed frames, potentially as a tribute to the children.

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Chernobyl, 2017 - Though visitors are warned not to touch anything within the nuclear exclusion zone, many disregard it.

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Chernobyl, 2017 - In addition, it is likely that visitors even bring their own dolls, as some of them look too new to have been lying around for more than three decades.

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Chernobyl, 2017 - The area sees as many as 10,000 visitors each year.

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Chernobyl, 2017 - Visitors don't just bring items. Many portable items have been smuggled out by illegal trophy-hunters and scrap-dealers alike, even though it is illegal to remove anything from the radioactive zone.

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Chernobyl, 2017 - The exclusion zone lies inside a 2,600 sq km (1004 sq mile) area.

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Chernobyl, 2017 - Visiting the zone for short periods of time is considered safe, as the radiation released in 1986 has since decayed.

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Chernobyl, 2017 - Radiation levels present in sites visited on these tours range from 15 to several hundred micro-roentgens per hour. 

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Chernobyl, 2017 - A person would have to be exposed to between 300 to 500 roentgens an hour for radiation to be deadly.

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Chernobyl, 2017 - Ukrainian officials say that Pripyat will not be inhabitable for another 20,000 years.

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Chernobyl, 2017 - Located just a few kilometers from Chernobyl, Pripyat was built in the 1970s to house the nuclear plant's workers and their families.

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Chernobyl, 2017 - The town was equipped with 15 primary schools, five secondary schools, and a technical college.

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Chernobyl, 2017 - Pripyat also had a hospital, two sports stadiums, and an amusement park.

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Chernobyl, 2017 - The nuclear accident killed two people immediately as a result of the explosion. 

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Chernobyl, 2017 - Over the next few days, 28 firemen and employees died as a result of acute radiation sickness.

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Chernobyl, 2017 - Another 15 cases of fatal child thyroid cancer were confirmed to be linked to the nuclear accident.

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Chernobyl, 2017 - However, the long-term effect of the radiation is harder to quantify. It is still unclear how many fatalities the disaster caused.

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