Disaster Areas

Remnants of the United States's largest accidental oil spill still mar a California valley.

The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.

The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chornobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.

This lonely tower survived the landslide that devastated much of a Mexican mining town.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

The worst flood disaster in Welsh history might have been a lot worse if it had not happened on movie night.

The sinister ruins of one of the worst dam failures of the 20th century lie in this astonishing alpine setting.

Three memorials honor the victims of the worst sports stadium disaster in Britain.

George Martin's Caribbean recording studio now rots within the shadow of an active volcano.

The last planned Soviet city was built for the former residents of Prypiat after the Chornobyl disaster.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.