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Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible
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 | Edited by spinkk, Dylan and 2 others
Most polluted lake in the world, used as a radioactive dumping ground for years
Lake Karachay (Karachai) is a small lake in the southern Ural mountains of Russia that, between 1951 and 1953, was used as a dumping site for the radioactive waste from the nearby Chelyabinsk-65,... »
Intriguing Environs, Disaster Areas | Edited by Nicholas Jackson
Finnish lake, and scene of an infamous murder mystery
They say that it was the Grim Reaper, death itself that came for the victims on that faithful night of June 4, 1960.
Four teenagers, Maila Irmeli Björklund and Anja Tuulikki Mäki, both fifteen... »
Disaster Areas | Edited by stanestane and Dylan
Scene of brutal murders that inspired Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood"
In their two-story brick home at the end of Oak Street in the rural town of Holcomb, Kan., Herb and Bonnie Clutter and their two teenagers were found bound and shot to death in November 1959.... »
Disaster Areas | Edited by Nicholas Jackson
Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing
Built by engineer Konstantin Zverev in the 1870s, Fort Zverev now lies in ruins, with machine gun mounts, bunkers, and water tubes slowly rusting away.
But the part of Fort Zverev that feels... »
Disaster Areas, Incredible Ruins, Subterranean Sites | Edited by littlebrumble and Dylan
Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth
"Come, ye philosophers, who cry, 'All’s well,' and contemplate this ruin of a world."
-Voltaire, 1756
One of the deadliest earthquakes in history struck Lisbon on All-Saint's day, November... »
Unique Collections, Memento Mori, Disaster Areas, Incredible Ruins | Edited by Annetta and Dylan
An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City
Guatemala City has had experience with sinkholes before: In 2007, three people and a dozen homes here suddenly disappeared into the earth. But no one was prepared for anything like this.
On... »
Geological Oddities, Intriguing Environs, Disaster Areas | Edited by gabeschwartz, Dylan and others
Nature took her revenge on the 'Wickedest City in the World'
"The earth opened and swallowed many people, before my face, and the sea I saw came mounting in over the wall, upon which I concluded it impossible to escape."
Edmund Heath, survivor and... »
Watery Wonders, Disaster Areas, Incredible Ruins | Edited by Annetta
