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Disaster Areas

The site. (philcrater/Atlas Obscura)

Cedar Crest, New Mexico

TWA Flight 260 Crash Site

Deadly airliner crash preserved for those willing to climb and pay respects.

Knute Rockne. (Wikimedia Commons)

Matfield Green, Kansas

Knute Rockne Memorial

Tribute to the famous Notre Dame football coach who died in a plane crash.

The mushroom cloud caused by the Tsar Bomba explosion. (Wikimedia Commons)

Novaya Zemlya, Russia

Novaya Zemlya

Site of the world's largest nuclear explosion.

Takehara, Japan

Okunoshima

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

Sahuarita, Arizona

ASARCO Mission Mine and Mineral Discovery Center

One of the largest open-pit copper mining operations in the entire country.

"Hex House" former home of Nelson D. Rehmeyer.

Stewartstown, Pennsylvania

Rehmeyer's Hollow

The Home and murder site of the witch of Rehmeyers Hollow.

Brooklyn, New York

Greenpoint Oil Spill

A 120-year oil leak slowly unleashes more gallons of oil than the Exxon/Mobil disaster.

Brooklyn, New York

Site of the Great Greenpoint Sewer Explosion

If you were standing here on October 5th, 1950, you'd be dead.

Originally a high school, Tuol Seng was converted into a high security prison.

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

Khmer Rouge's high security prison.

George Town: beautiful and serene

George Town, Cayman Islands

George Town

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

Tomigusuku, Japan

Naval Underground Headquarters

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

An aerial view of Lake Karachay.

Lake Karachay

Most polluted lake in the world, used as a radioactive dumping ground for years.

The centerpiece of the Hartford Circus Fire Memorial, where the middle tent post stood.

Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford Circus Fire Memorial

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

Lake Bodom

Finnish lake, and scene of an infamous murder mystery.

Brooklyn, New York

Exxon Pumping Facility

Nondescript building owned by ExxonMobil working on siphoning Greenpoint Oil Spill out of the ground.

Kronshtadt, Russia

Fort Zverev

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

Lisbon, Portugal

Carmo Convent Ruins

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

Kaali Meteorite Crater Field

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.