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A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

The site of Minnesota’s worst mining disaster, now reclaimed by nature.

These rows of World War II-era bunkers were the scene of some of the infamous Mothman sightings.

An underground blaze turned this village into a ghost town.

Deadliest lake in the world suffocated over 1,746 people in one night.

An incredibly salty lake inside the crater of an extinct volcano.

The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

Thought to be the only herd of feral horses in Africa and one of the most isolated populations in the world.

The largest known meteorite on Earth was too big to move.

The world's largest church atop a political fault line.

A public display of prehistoric space rocks is named for the Namibian village where they were found.

Welded sphere dropped from space.

The ruins of this mining boom town stand like skeletal reminders of the settlement's dark history.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.

This abandoned plantation was once witness to an eclipse that proved Einstein's theory of relativity.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.

The equator passes through this tiny island in the eastern Atlantic.

This striking otherworldly landscape outside Angola's capital city is the product of millions of years of erosion.

Ten shipwreck-shaped chalets lie along the sand dunes on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.