Nor Yungas, Bolivia
North Yungas Road
Death road of Bolivia.
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Nor Yungas, Bolivia
Death road of Bolivia.
Tacoma, Washington
This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.
Boston, Massachusetts
The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.
Brooklyn, New York
First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.
Prypiat, Ukraine
This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.
Eureka, Missouri
This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.
Niagara Falls, New York
Genesis of modern hydroelectric power.
Budapest, Hungary
The largest statue of this convex, homogeneous object with just one stable and one unstable equilibrium point.
Buffalo, New York
The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.
Lincoln, Ontario
The third version of this tall sailing ship sits, rusted and burnt, in Lake Ontario.
Angola, New York
Where one of the worst train disasters in the country took place, leading to upgrades in rail safety.
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
Legend says that this short Canadian tunnel still holds the dying screams of a girl who burned alive.
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
This seemingly cursed monument is dedicated to one of Canada's great war heroes.
East Aurora, New York
This former hub for crafty philosophers was founded by a writer who died aboard the infamous RMS Lusitania.
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.
Buffalo, New York
Museum dedicated to the struggles of the disabled.
Buffalo, New York
One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.
Buffalo, New York
Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.
Buffalo, New York
A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.
Akron, New York
A masked wrestling legend has opened the first U.S. course devoted to a meditative Japanese golf variant.
Alden, New York
The "last holdout of the Confederacy” actually sat at the edge of the Canadian border.
Bryson City, North Carolina
This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.