When you first drive by this ominous building sitting in a field visible from the freeway, it appears to be out of place. Obviously abandoned, as evidenced by the vegetation emerging from the... »

Crime and Punishment, Disaster Areas, Incredible Ruins | Edited by Rachel

On a wet and windy night in late November 1944, a US Navy plane crashed into Mount Tamalpais and killed eight aviators and crew. The aircraft had taken off from Naval Air Station in Alameda when... »

Disaster Areas, Incredible Ruins | Edited by Duck_Muscle, Annetta and others

Imagine an American-centric, worst nightmare portrayal of the peak of the Cold War. It probably looks a little like hazard-suited Soviets, tinkering with terrifying diseases we long thought were... »

Intriguing Environs, Disaster Areas | Edited by atimian, Dylan and others

Hearing the story of Fresh Kills Landfill can be disheartening, but it ends on a positive note. Opened in 1947, the garbage dump on Staten Island grew so large over the second half of the 21st... »

Intriguing Environs, Disaster Areas | Edited by atimian and Dylan

At the end of the 19th century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania was just a small mining town, unknown to practically everyone across the country. But one rainy day in 1889 changed everything.... »

Museums and Collections, Disaster Areas | Edited by yamsaynot, atimian and others

In 2005, while uncovering mass plague graves on Venetian island of Lazzaretto Nuovo, workers made a strange discovery: The skull of a woman, with a brick jammed into her mouth. The hundreds of... »

Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries, Disaster Areas | Edited by Annetta and dthuras

Fort IX in Kaunas has played host to two occupying powers. Tsarist Russia constructed the fort as a stronghold used to defend Russia’s border in the West, and the Soviet Union used the fort as a... »

Unusual Monuments, Strange Statues, Disaster Areas | Edited by serflac and atimian

Set on a major backpacking highway for Western tourists on the border between Laos and Vietnam, Craters definitely caters to its audience. There is everything on the menu, ranging Asian... »

Disaster Areas, Commercial Curiosities, Bizarre Restaurants and Bars | Edited by serflac and atimian

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union could have hit the United Kingdom with a nuclear warhead with only four minutes warning. There was no time for reaction or defense, placing the entire British... »

Retro-Tech, Disaster Areas, Subterranean Sites | Edited by serflac and atimian

Twelve and a half miles north of Key West's famous Southernmost Point on the Overseas Highway (US 1), you'll find the tiny island of Geiger Key. Running alongside a starkly abandoned beach is a... »

Intriguing Environs, Disaster Areas | Edited by Mark_Casey, atimian and others