Special access to the world's strangest disaster zones reveals buried secrets. The Top 10 Strangest Disaster Zones:
10) Dallol, Afar Region, Ethiopia;
9) Muynak, Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan;
8) Exclusion Zone, Plymouth, Montserrat;
7) 921 Earthquake Faultline, Nantou County, Taiwan;
6) Vajont Dam, Bellund, Italy;
5) Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan;
4) Centralia, Columbia County, Pennsylvania,USA;
3) Porong District, Java, Indonesia;
2) Villa Epecuén, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina;
1) Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway
In a remote Louisiana swamp, the ruins of a massive industrial operation suggest that something evil once happened here.
Stories:
1) Goli Otok Prison, Croatia;
2) Laurel Valley Plantation, Louisiana, USA;
3) Invergordon Fuel Depot, Scotland, UK;
4) Port Royal, Jamaica
An abandoned industrial complex by Lake Michigan was once a top-secret military compound; new discoveries reveal what really happened here and why the government turned its back on this juggernaut.
Stories:
1) Nike Missile Sites and Gary, Indiana, USA;
2) Vindolanda, Northumberland, UK;
3) Dire Dawa Railway Yard, Ethiopia;
4) Kaunas Fortress, Lithuania
An island of dense jungle is home to an abandoned complex with a dark past of bloodshed and rebellion, and new discoveries reveal why it was built and the circumstances of its downfall.
Stories:
1) Royal Hospital Haslar, Hampshire, UK;
2) Sloss Furnaces, Birmingham, Alabama, USA;
3) Sazan Island, Albania;
4) Cinnamon Bay Plantation Ruins, St. John, US Virgin Islands
A strange bunker near the Kennedy Space Center once served a top-secret military function should doomsday ever come; experts use declassified intel to reveal the purpose of this forbidding facility.
Stories:
1) Christianstadt Dynamite Factory, Krzystkowice, Poland;
2) AT&T Bunker, Florida, USA;
3) Coastal Forts, Gold Coast, Ghana;
4) The Sugar Refinery, Belgrade, Serbia
An abandoned castle is the site of hundreds of horrific murders perpetrated by the mysterious countess who once lived there, a woman alleged to be one of the most prolific killers in history. Stories: 1) Čachtice Castle, Slovakia; 2) WACS, Nome, Alaska; 3) North Korean Labor Party Building, Cheorwon, South Korea; 4) Rabštejn Janská, Czechia
Abandoned towers in southern Greece are the ruins of a fearsome warrior civilization descended from the Spartans, and new discoveries reveal the role these towers played during generations of violent blood feuds among the clans that lived here.
Stories:
1) Antonov AN-225, Kiev, Ukraine;
2) Loch Ewe, Scotland, UK;
3) Kingsbury Ordnance Plant, Indiana, USA;
4) Mani Peninsula, Greece
A massive, alien-like fortress built into a mountainside is the central node to a network of pipelines that race outwards like tentacles.
Stories:
1) Shuinandong Smelter, Jinguashi, Taiwan;
2) Chanute Air Force Base, Campaign County, Illinois, USA;
3) Pidhirtsi Castle, Ukraine;
4) Fort Hermann, Bovec Basin, Slovenia
The ruins of an abandoned prison are evidence of a chaotic riot that put the prisoners in charge; special access to its burnt-out interior reveal how inmates took over Ireland's Alcatraz. Stories: 1) Ie Jima, Japan; 2) Spike Island, Republic of Ireland; 3) Corbera D'Ebre, Spain; 4) Carreau Rodolphe, Alsace, France
An eerie set of buildings in Paris is evidence of an unspeakable evil; new discoveries reveal the horrific things that happened here, and why they were abandoned. Stories: 1) Jardin D'Agronomie Tropicale, Paris, France; 2) Sandy Hook, New Jersey; 3) Purton Hulks, Purton, UK; 4) The Ostwall, Poland
A strange bunker in a treacherous landscape once belonged a notorious dictator who's paranoid fantasies drove bizarre and elaborate feats of engineering; new discoveries reveal the secrets of these structures and why the nightmares that built them. Stories: 1) Elbasan, Albania; 2) Fort Miles, Delaware Bay; 3) Esco, Spain; 4) Katashima, Torpedo Test Site, Japan