Fires

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

A history of heat is on display at this unique Austrian museum.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

A beautifully detailed Victorian house designed to be easy to flee, built by a man haunted by fire.

Each year, Germany's "City of Dragons" slays the world's largest walking robot.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

Both church and state get put to the torch in this annual festival in the "Bonfire Capital of the World."

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

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."

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.