Disasters

Disaster prevention apartment blocks in Sumida Ward are designed to save as many as possible in the face of the inevitable.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

Only a shrine remains at the site of the catastrophic nightclub inferno that killed 100 Great White fans.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

This small Irish village suffered the greatest loss of life when the Titanic sank.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

A Japanese pilot crash-landed on this Hawaiian island after the Pearl Harbor attack and terrorized locals for a week.

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.

The island that holds the world-record for largest human massacre caused by animals.

A snowy highland notorious for unexplained aircraft crashes is France's own Bermuda Triangle.

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

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

This church, buried halfway in lava rock, is all that remains of a Mexican village destroyed by a volcano.

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.

An oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

A museum commemorating the Donora Smog, which killed 20 people in October 1948 and sparked national outrage over air pollution.