Tag: Natural Disaster
58 cursed places found
Okawa School Memorial
Okawa Elementary School - The ruins of a school that was especially badly, and exceptionally tragically, hit by the 2011 tsunami disaster in Japan .
PLTD Apung 1
stranded power generating ship, Banda Aceh This is the second most important tsunami-related sight in Banda Aceh (after the Tsunami Museum ).
Catacombs of Milos
The Catacombs of Milos are an ancient underground Christian cemetery located on the island of Milos in the Cyclades, Greece, dating to the 1st-5th century...
Cima
(Spanish for "Summit") is a small unincorporated community in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California, in the United States.
Heimaey
Heimaey is the name of the largest and only inhabited island of the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago ("Westman Islands" in English) just off the south coast of...
Spitak
This town in northern Armenia was nearest to the epicentre of the devastating earthquake of 1988 that was accordingly named after Spitak โ even though the...
Montserrat Volcano Observatory (MVO)
The official site from where a team of volcanologists monitor Montserrat 's Soufriere Hills volcano's activity and hazards.
Capilla del Pocito
The Pocito Chapel, built from 1777 to 1797 in the village of Guadalupe, near Mexican City, is, with no doubt, the most original work of the colonial...
Copelec Building
This article is part of the [Beyond Los Andes] , a personal project curated by Germรกn Andrรฉs Chacรณn that explores the approach of modernity and the...
Monument to the 1973 uprising, Bangkok
A monument to and exhibition about the violent clashes between protesters and government forces in 1973, near the Democracy Monument, where protesters...
White Rose memorial museum Munich
White Rose memorial DenkStรคtte Weiรe Rose A small memorial museum in Munich dedicated to the "Weiรe Rose" resistance movement in Nazi Germany during WWII...
Apua
สปฤpua was an ancient village in the Puna district on the southern coast of the Island of Hawaiสปi in the Hawaiian Islands.
Tafjord
The site of yet another disastrous landslide causing a tsunami in a fjord in Norway (cf.
Aso
Mt Aso, Kyushu ----------------- UPDATE 10 October 2016: I've just heard that Mt Aso has sprung to life again in an explosive eruption and that access to...
stranded boats in Banda Aceh
In addition to the big PLTD Apung 1 , many smaller vessels, especially fishing boats, were also carried inland by the 2004 tsunami in Banda Aceh .
Halifax, Nova Scotia
A harbour town on the east coast of Nova Scotia, Canada , whose maritime heritage includes a couple of particularly dark ones.
Former Kusuo Yasuda Residence
The Former Kusuo Yasuda House and Garden (the Yasuda House) is a fine example of a prewar Japanese gentleman's home.
Catedral Metropolitana de Managua
โIn 1972, the City of Managua was destroyed by an earthquake, as was the Cathedral.
Nuugaatsiaq
(old spelling: Nรปgรขtsiaq) is a now abandoned settlement in the Avannaata municipality, in northwestern Greenland, located on an island off the southern...
Slavutych Museum
( ) ---------------------------- UPDATE 2 March 2022: due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, this site will be out of tourism reach for some time to come.
Lovatnet
The site of two massive landslides that caused tsunamis that swept away villages on the shores of Lovatnet lake killing several dozens of villagers on...
Godesburg
The Godesburg is a castle in Bad Godesberg, a formerly independent part of Bonn, Germany.
Aralsk, Aral Sea
Aralsk & North Aral Sea This poor town used to be the main fishing port on the Aral Sea , before the latter began drying up.
Old train station earthquake ruin, Skopje
Earthquake ruin of Skopje train station The remainder of what used to be Skopje 's main train station until the disastrous earthquake of 1963 caused part...
Mt Tarawera and Te Wairoa buried village
Mt Tarawera & Te Wairoa buried village New Zealand 's volcanoes do not only provide for fantastic scenery to be marvelled at (cf.
Tsunami and Disaster Mitigation Research Centre
Tsunami & Disaster Mitigation Research Centre A complex clustered around a new tsunami escape building that doubles up as an education & community centre,...
Goma, DRC
A city in Eastern Congo (DRC) on Lake Kivu near the border with Rwanda .
Tsunami monument in Yala National Park, Sri Lanka
Tsunami Memorial in Yala National Park Yala National Park, rather than a decidedly dark place, is actually Sri Lanka 's premier wildlife spotting area,...
Sakurajima volcano, Kagoshima
One of Japan 's most active volcanoes โ right opposite Kagoshima, the southernmost city on the southern mainland island of Kyushu.
Nyiragongo volcano, DRC
Nyiragongo volcano, Congo One of Africa's (and the world's) most active volcanoes, located in the Democratic Republic of Congo , and one of only a very...
Turkmenbashy Mausoleum
The final resting place of Saparmurat Turkmenbashy the Great, the late eccentric leader of Turkmenistan .
Onizuka Space Center
A cute little museum in Kona, Hawaii , about space exploration. It is named after Hawaii-born astronaut Ellison S.
White Island
New Zealand 's only marine volcano. i.e. an island, about 30 miles (50 km) off Whakatane on the eastern coast of the "mainland" of North Island.
Hindenburg crash site
"Hindenburg" crash site The place where one of the most iconic disasters in aviation history happened when the German zeppelin Hindenburg burst into...
Vajont Dam, Italy
Vajont Dam This is a somewhat more obscure dark site, in northern Italy , but nonetheless the site of a major tragedy โ partly natural, partly man- made โ...
Gyumri
Armenia Gyumri is the second largest city in Armenia (after Yerevan ) and functions as the capital of the remote Shirak region in the north-west of the...
Oklahoma City National Memorial
& Museum The site of the worst terrorist attack in the USA prior to 9/11 .
Forsmark nuclear power station
Sweden Sweden is one of the most ardent advocates of the use of nuclear power (while at the same time vehemently critical of nuclear arms).
Shibam
Located on the centre of Yemen, the walled city of Shibam is one of these impossible places and oddities of the Arabic urbanism.
Corona School
After the 1933 earthquake happened in Los Angeles, many of their schools were destroyed.
NUK: National and University Library
The building is on the same piece of land where the late-Renaissance Anersperg Palace had been torn down after being partially destroyed by the 1895...
Zimmerman House
Program: A house for a young couple with three children.
Nagasaki
Japan 's (and the world's) second (and so far last) city to be struck by an atomic bomb , namely on 9 August 1945, only three days after Hiroshima .
Pompeii
UPDATE: I've recently manage to finally visit this place myself and will in due course turn the text below into a full-entry chapter with first-hand...
Lisbon
The capital of Portugal is not only a great city to visit in its own right (it is in fact one of my favourites !), it also offers a few comparatively...
Bledug Kuwu
mud volcano Now here's an obscure sight you won't find in the usual guidebooks at all: a highly active mud volcano in Central Java, Indonesia , whose...
Zhemchug
The city of Tashkent, with its almost three million inhabitants, is the capital and economic centre of Uzbekistan.
Stromboli
UPDATE January 2026: Iโve just booked a trip to Sicily and the Aeolian Islands, including a two-day stint on Stromboli with a guided volcano hike (see...
Garabogazkรถl
One of the most forlorn places on Earth.
Tsunami Museum Banda Aceh
Tsunami Museum, Banda Aceh The main site in Indonesia for commemorating, and educating people about, the disastrous 2004 tsunami that laid large parts of...
Pavilions for Conversations
This article is part of the Hidden Architecture Series โAttitudeโ , where we explore current works by contemporain architectes which, despite its...
Viti
Askja Viti means 'hell' in Icelandic โ and even though the trip there isn't quite so hellish as the name implies, it's still extreme: Viti is an explosion...
Christchurch Town Hall
The Christchurch Town Hall, since 2007 formally known as the Christchurch Town Hall of the Performing Arts, opened in 1972, is Christchurch, New Zealand's...
Punchbowl
โPunchbowlโ is the informal name for an old volcanic crater right in Honolulu, towering above the cityscape.
Krakatoa
Site (in Indonesia ) of what was probably the most infamous volcanic eruption in history: in 1883 the old Krakatoa volcano exploded, creating destruction...
Lynmouth, Devon, England
Lynmouth A small harbour village on the north coast of Devon, Great Britain , which was the scene of a catastrophic flash flood in August 1952.
Quake City, Christchurch
Christchurch, the main city on New Zealand โs South Island, has been hit by earthquakes frequently, and especially hard in 2010 and 2011.
Metsamor
Armenia - Metsamor is home to Armenia 's infamous nuclear power plant of the same name โ reputedly one of the most dangerous such plants in the world.