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Named after the nearby Pripyat
River, Pripyat was founded on
Feb 4, 1970, as the ninth nuclear
city - a type of closed city - in the
Soviet Union, to serve the nearby
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It
was officially proclaimed a city in
1979, and had grown to a popula-
tion of almost 50,000 by the time
it was evacuated on the afternoon
of April 27, 1986, the day after the
Chernobyl disaster.
The Catacombs of Paris are underground ossuaries
(container or roomthat the bones of dead people
are placed) in Paris, France, which hold the remains
of over sixmillion people in a small part of the
ancient Mines of Paris tunnel network.
The ossuary was foundedwhen city officials were
facedwith two simultaneous problems: a series
of cave-ins which started in 1774 and overflowing
cemeteries, particularly Saint Innocents. Nightly
processions between 1786 to 1788 saw the remains
fromcemeteries being transferred to the rein-
forced tunnels, withmore being added over the
years. Some parts of the catacombs are open to the
public as an official museum, but other sections
are off limits, yet are visited illegally by thousands
of curious tourists and local troublemakers.
The “Door toHell” is a natural gas
field inDerweze, Turkmenistan, that
collapsed into an underground cavern
in 1971, becoming a natural gas crater.
Geologists set it on fire to prevent the
spread of methane gas. It has been
burning continuously since then and
does not look like it will ever stop.
“Door to Hell” – Derweze, Turkmenistan
Catacombs Of Paris
Pripyat, Ukraine