Fiery Wonders

For more than 15 years, this downtown dive bar has hosted fiery outdoor “iron pours.”

A spectacular annual festival centers around humans throwing molten iron against a wall at night.

Think you have a tough job? Try carrying 200 kilos through a cloud of sulfur down the side of a volcano.

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.

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

Germany has its very own Centralia, whose spark remains attributed to "spontaneous combustion."

This Canary island is a quintessential example of nature’s beauty, and its unbridled fury.

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

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

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

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

An island in the middle of a lake, in the middle of a volcano, in the middle of a bigger lake, in the middle of a bigger island, in an archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean.

Where there’s manufacturing, there’s fire!

A city continually buried under the ash of a volcano that has been erupting for more than 15 years.