Fires

Even after the church tried to wipe the practice out, this pagan festival lives on each year in a small Scottish village.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

A cathedral resurrected from the ashes of one of Europe's greatest urban fires.

A museum devoted to the victims and the survivors of the most catastrophic fire in American history.

The palace of the King of Kings, burned by Alexander the Great.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

An art collective teaching the more fiery, metal-y art forms.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.

A devastating booze inferno poured through the streets, claiming several victims who drank it.

This fully intact Neoclassical-Greek Revival style firehouse operated until 1938.