Think small for big carnival fun: chase Europe’s village-scale parades—Fasnacht masks, drummers, candy tosses—and plan for Rosenmontag or Basel’s pre-dawn kickoff to score epic photos.

Step inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone through an on-the-ground 2020 photo story: Pripyat’s empty streets and mosaics, the Duga (“Woodpecker”) complex, and the still-staffed nuclear plant as decommissioning continues—powerful images that show what remains today.