Eyam, England
Eyam Plague Village Museum
Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.
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Eyam, England
Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.
Buxton, England
This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.
Arkwright Town, England
When methane gas started seeping up from the ground, they picked up and moved the entire town.
Berlin, Germany
On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.
London, England
On October 17, 1814, a 15-ft. wave of beer ran rampant through the streets of London.
London, England
The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.
Kalkar, Germany
An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.
Dresden, Germany
Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.
Odessa, Ukraine
The eerie burnt-out remains of a prominent building where 30 protestors lost their lives.
Bingen, Germany
Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.
Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.
Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.
Vilminore di Scalve, Italy
The sinister ruins of one of the worst dam failures of the 20th century lie in this astonishing alpine setting.
Venice, Italy
The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."
Lisbon, Portugal
Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.
Porto-Vecchio, France
A resort destroyed by a mysterious bombing offers visitors only its remains and the riddle behind it's demise.
Ercolano, Italy
Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.
Pompeii, Italy
The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.
Gibellina Vecchia, Italy
Leveled by an earthquake, this Italian village is now preserved as a massive concrete art project.
Kampala, Uganda
The burial ground of four Buganda monarchs was nearly destroyed by a devastating fire.
N'Guigmi, Niger
The world's most remote memorial to the victims of the UTA Flight 772 disaster.
Brooklyn, New York
If you were standing here on October 5th, 1950, you'd be dead.
Neversink, New York
The lost town of Neversink, sunk by New York City.
Matfield Green, Kansas
Tribute to the famous Notre Dame football coach who died in a plane crash.