Radioactive

This is the location of the U.S. Radium Corporation where the “Radium Girls” worked, became sickened by radiation poisoning, with many dying horrible deaths.

A Soviet-era health spa complete with radioactive bathing and shock therapy.

The only mine for rare earth elements in the United States has been intermittently active since the 1950s.

Starting in 1961, Brookhaven National Labs regularly irradiated a section of forest with a canister of Cesium-137 to study the effects of hard gamma radiation on an ecosystem.

This remote site in the Australian Outback is where the British government conducted atomic bomb tests in the 1950s.

What if the cure for all that ails you was as simple as repeated exposure to low-dose radon?

This bathhouse includes an option to soak in radioactive water.

Some believe Ponce de León's mystical spring lurks right under a public drinking fountain.

A huge Soviet-era robotics factory in the outskirts of Prypiat, now long-abandoned.