Once a tropical paradise, Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands was transformed into a nuclear test site during the Cold War, rendering it uninhabitable to this day. The area was used for over a decade to detonate more than 60 nuclear weapons, one of which was 1,100 times larger than the Hiroshima bomb. Radiation still lingers, making Bikini Atoll unsafe for long-term habitation.
For centuries Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands was a tropical paradise. Today, it's uninhabitable.
It lingers even today and while tourists can visit, radiation levels in Bikini Atoll have not yet dropped enough to make it inhabitable.Pripyat, Ukraine was evacuated on April 27, 1986, one day after the Chernobyl disaster released huge amounts of radiation into the atmosphere, putting hundreds of thousands of people in nearby towns at risk.
About 300 people die there every year, according to records dating back to 1994, but tourists haven't been deterred by the death toll. What is clear is that in the 1970s, engineers set the crater on fire to prevent the spread of poisonous gases that emanated from it and its been burning ever since.It should come as no surprise that Earth's highest mountain above sea level is considered one of the most dangerous places on the planet.
Spreading across 136,956 square kilometres of Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti, the desert is among the lowest and hottest places on the planet, with record high temperatures of 49 °C. Death Valley National Park has recorded more than 60 deaths since 2007, averaging about four deaths per year.Welcome to Oymyakon, the coldest permanently inhabited human settlement on the planet.
Its sandy shores are littered with whale and seal bones from decades gone by, as well as the skeletons of ships wrecked against offshore rocks or in the dense fog.Mount Sinabung, IndonesiaThen it erupted in 2010, and the eruptions haven't let up for more than a few years since.
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