Hauntingly Beautiful Photos of Nature Swallowing Up Fukushima's Nuclear Radiation Zone

But in the midst of the destruction and decay, Podniesinski discovered mother nature has returned to the condemned zone in force.

Carros são engolidos pela floresta na área isolada de Fukushima, no Japão, após o acidente nuclear de 2011 provocado por um tsunami. Diversas áreas, imóveis e bens foram abandonados durante a evacuação da cidade. O registro impressionante é do fotógrafo polonês Arkadiusz Podniesinski.

A photo posted by Gazeta do Povo (@gazetadopovo) on Oct 20, 2015 at 5:31am PDT

In the Fukushima reactor zone #Fukushima #Japan #nuclear #abandoned #abandonedporn

A photo posted by @museumofmodernart on Oct 18, 2015 at 9:36pm PDT

Cartoline da #fukushima le strade del Uomo durano poco.

A photo posted by alberto strada (@albertostrada) on Oct 14, 2015 at 1:35pm PDT

Photographer Andrea Bonisol Aquati also captured the eerily beautiful phenomenon in the nearby ghost town of Namie.

Tsunami inundation area I. Great East Japan earthquake tsunami inundation area near Minamisoma, Japan.

A photo posted by @andreabonisolialquati on Jun 13, 2014 at 3:04am PDT

Abandoned house. Fukushima Exclusion Zone. Near Namie, Japan.

A photo posted by @andreabonisolialquati on Jun 12, 2014 at 7:12pm PDT

While the events at the Fukushima Daiichi plant after the earthquake and tsunami were a catastrophe, there’s a strange comfort to seeing how quickly nature can bounce back and take over places that have been destroyed by mankind’s greatest mistakes.

For more pictures of Chernobyl and Fukushima, check out Arkadiusz Podniesinski’s website here. For more from Andrea Bonisol Alquati, check out his website here. h/t: Bored Panda.