Disaster Areas

Death road of Bolivia.

China's biggest e-waste village.

A botched 18th-century canal silenced one of Sweden's most magnificent waterfalls.

A scenic overlook of a pit mine hundreds of meters deep filled with blue water.

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

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.