Explosions

A festival where people vie to be bombarded by exploding clusters of fireworks.

The site of one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, created when a massive bomb dump accidentally exploded.

The remains of a monument in the remote Kazakhstani desert dedicated to the only men to die in outer space, the crew of the Soyuz 11 rocket.

A small memorial to a deadly night in Serbia that shook the world before it was swept under the rug.

Neither bomb blasts nor heartbeats escape the giant ears of this super sci-fi Arctic outpost.

There is nothing like a religious festival celebrated with blow-up sledgehammers.

A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.

A small square plaque marks a failed assassination attempt that could have changed history.

This public park was the site of the largest civilian disaster of the Civil War.

A massive explosion that leveled hundreds of buildings in the city of Leiden is remembered by a waterside plaque.

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.