Disaster Destinations: Roadside Attractions With an Extra Dose of Destruction

Travel Blog  •  Elyse Franko  •  07.23.08 | 9:27 AM ET

imageFrom the ever-burning coal pit in Centralia, Pennsylvania, to the giant circle of trash floating in the eastern Pacific, this tongue-in-cheek article from Good magazine offers a travel guide to the many man-made disasters in America, conveniently spread from sea to not-so-shining sea. Take this excerpt on the Salton Sea in California: “Chemical reactions turn the surface red and lime green, causing massive, odiferous fish die-offs, and sick fish poison the more than 400 species of birds that live here.”

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Photo of Salton Sea by mst7022 via Flickr, (Creative Commons)

Tags: Eco Travel, North America, United States, News and Briefs

Elyse Franko is a Long Island native, a graduate of the American University School of Communication in Washington, D.C., and a former World Hum intern. During her time at university, she wrote and edited for several campus publications and fostered her love for traveling by spending time abroad in Istanbul, Turkey, and Berlin, Germany. She currently works as a teaching assistant in Vienna, Austria.


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