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Site of the world's largest nuclear explosion.

The Canaima airstrip in Venezuela keeps an antique DC 3 plane in its camp.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

The cell which saved the life of Ludger Sylbaris, "the man who lived through Doomsday."

The largest dam in the world and the site of a potential disaster.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

Plagued by riots, celebrity injuries and a tragic death, this amusement park has been demolished.

The third largest ship breaking yard in the world has created an eerie shipping graveyard in southern Pakistan.

Former island in the Aral Sea used to be a top-secret Russian bio-weapons facility.

Once a bustling fishing port, this semi-ghost town is now more than 90 miles away from the shore.

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

Finnish lake, and scene of an infamous murder mystery.

Launch site for nuclear war against Western Europe.

Memorial to the Titanic engineers that died working to hold back the sea.

The last planned Soviet city was built for the former residents of Prypiat after the Chornobyl disaster.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chornobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

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

The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.

The worst flood disaster in Welsh history might have been a lot worse if it had not happened on movie night.

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

Three memorials honor the victims of the worst sports stadium disaster in Britain.