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Tomigusuku, Okinawa, Japan
During World War II, Japanese naval forces in Okinawa, led by Rear Admiral Minoru Ota, built an elaborate underground headquarters, with hundreds of meters of connecting tunnels under a hill in... »
Memento Mori, Ossuaries, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries, Ghost Towns, Disaster Areas, Subterranean Sites | Submitted by spinkk | Updated by wythe
Peace Park and the A-bomb dome
On Monday, August 6th, 1945, at 8:15 am, a US bomber dropped the first nuclear weapon used in warfare over the city of Hiroshima.
Estimates of the number killed vary from 90,000 to 166,000... »
Museums and Collections, Strange Science, Unique Collections, Memento Mori, Ghost Towns, Disaster Areas | Edited by spinkk and Dylan
Below a historic English market town lies a secret underground city complete with kitchens, laundries, storerooms, a pub, and an underground lake
In disaster movies, when the asteroid is hurtling towards earth, or the super volcano is about to blow, there is always a top-secret location where the president, government officials and... »
Retro-Tech, Disaster Areas, Incredible Ruins, Repositories of Knowledge, Subterranean Sites | Edited by and Dylan
Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be
A man made environmental disaster has left a once-great sea dry, the land polluted, and the locals inundated with disease.
The destruction of the Aral Sea is a strange legacy of the US Civil War,... »
Watery Wonders, Ghost Towns, Disaster Areas | Edited by Annetta
First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach of glass is scavenger heaven
Like most of New York City, Dead Horse Bay has a long history of changes. Over the years, much of old New York has been torn down, replaced, torn down again, and replaced again by new buildings... »
Disaster Areas | Edited by michelle
Copper from this former open-pit mine helped to electrify America. Now it is filled with more than 40 billion gallons of acidic water, heavy metals, and unique microscopic lifeforms.
The Berkeley Pit is a former open-pit copper mine in Butte Montana, and now one of the only places in the world where you can pay to see toxic waste; admission is two dollars. The sheer scale of... »
Watery Wonders, Martian Landscapes, Disaster Areas | Edited by jamesb, bopo and others
World's third largest impact crater, and where the fate of the dinosaurs was sealed
Buried beneath thousands of feet of limestone in the Yucatán Peninsula are the remains of an impact so great that it wiped out over half of the Earth’s species. The Chicxulub Crater, named after... »
Geological Oddities, Disaster Areas | Edited by Trevor
Slaughterhouse Five opens it's dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut
In Kurt Vonnegut's book Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death, the main character Billy Pilgram is captured by the Germans and taken to Dresden. In Dresden, Billy... »
Disaster Areas, Incredible Ruins, Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by
The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic
In the fall of 1854, 500 people died in just ten days in the center of London in the worst of a series of cholera outbreaks. At the time, the way that cholera spread was a mystery, generally... »
Strange Statues, Disaster Areas | Edited by Annetta and stanestane
