Very nice, thank you for the link!
When playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, going through the Chernobyl stage, Pripyat gave me a real feeling of how the Barrens probably was, especially when "Bad Things" were about to go down and the area got deserted quite quickly! (Which, in the stage, was actually what was happening.).
The part about the children also creeped me the hell out, and gives me ideas about ghosts and spirits of man that might make up parts of the Barrens if disturbed or summoned. (I used part of that in my "
Pup The Dog Shaman" story.).
I also have some pics somewhere from a Abandoned Toronto Industrial Sector that fits nicely as well. Have to see if I can find them again.