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The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

When a mechanical flaw rewrote aviation rules.

The remains of the dam that unleashed a 15-foot wall of water on Denver.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

A lovely summer day by the sea becomes a nightmare.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

A 6-mile-long lake created by an apocalyptic seismic event and the deadly chain reaction that ensued.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

The morning of January 9, 1965, over 46 million cubic meters of earth, rock, and snow broke free, obliterating a section of the highway below.

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

Nondescript building owned by ExxonMobil working on siphoning Greenpoint Oil Spill out of the ground.

A 120-year oil leak slowly unleashes more gallons of oil than the Exxon/Mobil disaster.

The rusted remains of a victim of Hurricane Ike.

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

A freighter full of exotic animals ends a harrowing voyage impaled on uncharted rocks in the Boston Harbor.

Scene of the grisly murder of two Norwegian women in 1873.

The lesser-known cousin of the Great Pacific trash island.

One of the most horrible legacies of the Cold War is a site where the Soviet Union tested nuclear bombs on civilians.