<p><strong>Built nearly three decades ago but never used, the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (pictured) in the <a href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/countries/philippines-guide/?source=newstravel_travel">Philippines</a> is now being promoted by its parent company, the <a href="http://www.napocor.gov.ph/">National Power Corporation</a>, as a new ecotourism site. Visitors can tour the plant and stay the night at an adjacent beach, which is home to a turtle sanctuary.</strong></p><strong> </strong> <p>"This will be the only tourist-friendly nuclear power plant in this part of the world," National Power spokesman Dennis Gana <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hqVJgBWJjn2Q4pmgku2ZnJbdo-gg?docId=CNG.b339308483fcb47f9fe5b1ed8a6e4f6b.221">told the AFP news service</a>. <a href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/continents/europe/?source=newstravel_travel">Europe</a>, in particular, is home to several others.</p> <p>"You don't see a nuclear power plant every day. Especially a nuclear reactor ... so I think for most people it would be very thrilling."</p> <p>(See <a href="http://intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com/2011/10/27/top-10-ghost-towns/?source=newstravel_travel">our top ten ghost towns</a>.)</p> <p><em>—Ker Than</em></p>