Disaster Areas

The exorbitant price of paradise.

The lesser-known cousin of the Great Pacific trash island.

The cell which saved the life of Ludger Sylbaris, "the man who lived through Doomsday."

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

The birthplace of both the Atomic Age and Godzilla, and the namesake of the bathing suit.

Deadliest lake in the world suffocated over 1,746 people in one night.

Amelia Earhart's possible place of death.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.

Dynamite factory turned museum explores the history of explosives.

The lost town of Neversink, sunk by New York City.

A remote coral island with a gristly history of shipwreck, battles, and a horrendous war crime.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.