Superfun(d) tourism

In his new book, Visit Sunny Chernobyl, author Andrew Blackwell explores some of the world’s most environmentally devastated places. He embarks on a journey which he calls “pollution tourism,” visiting such places as Chernobyl, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and Brooklyn, New York’s, Gowanus Canal. Sacramento County itself has its own fair share of Superfund Sites—or “uncontrolled or abandoned place(s) where hazardous waste is located,” according to the Environmental Protection Agency. So if you’d like to do your own self-guided, local pollution tourism, you can check out a list of Sacramento County’s Superfund Sites at www.epa.gov/region9/superfund.