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Villaggio Monte Busca, Italy
Monte Busca Volcano
This natural gas vent certainly earns its name as the smallest volcano in Italy.
disasters
Guide to Islands You Don't Want to Visit, Pt.2
El Hierro, Spain
El Hierro
This Canary island is a quintessential example of nature’s beauty, and its unbridled fury.
Saint-Pierre, Martinique
The Prison Cell of Ludger Sylbaris
The cell which saved the life of Ludger Sylbaris, "the man who lived through Doomsday."
Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
The Tunnels of Rabaul
This volcanically volatile island town is home to an abandoned series of tunnels left by the Japanese during WWII.
Lake Tarawera, New Zealand
Te Wairoa Buried Village
A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.
Waimangu, New Zealand
Lake Rotomahana
The once and future home of New Zealand's famed Pink and White Terraces.
Pozzuoli, Italy
Phlegraean Fields
A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.
Belpasso, Italy
Mount Etna
The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.
Pozzuoli, Italy
Monte Nuovo
Italy's "New Mountain" rose from the ground in a volcanic eruption in 1538.
Iceland
Hekla
A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.
Philippines
Vulcan Point
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.
Nicaragua
Cerro Negro
The youngest volcano in Central America.
ÅŒshima Island, Japan
Mount Mihara
This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.
Aogashima, Japan
Aogashima Volcano
We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...
Catarman, Philippines
Sunken Cemetery
A cemetery and the town it served sinks beneath the sea during the volcanic birth of Mt. Vulcan.
Aso, Japan
Mount Aso Caldera
The largest volcanic caldera in Japan holds an entire city in its maw.
Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
Los Vahos
Natural saunas fed by volcanic heat.
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