A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

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

Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

Deadly airliner crash preserved for those willing to climb and pay respects.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

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.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.

An apocalyptic seismic event creates a deadly chain reaction that ends with a 6-mile long lake developing within weeks.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

Tribute to the famous Notre Dame football coach who died in a plane crash.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

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

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

The island that holds the world-record for largest human massacre caused by animals.