Man-Made Disaster Travel
In an imaginative and off-topic move, the folks over at Good magazine have just published a travel issue. We were pretty stoked about topics like what $500 will get you on the black market in Paraguay, taking a cross-country train and, our particular favorite, a travel guide to man-made disasters: five places in the US you wouldn't want to hang around too long.
These anti-destinations include the country's largest landfill (unsurprisingly located outside Las Vegas) and a 36-billion-gallon, 900-foot-deep, water-filled former copper mine that is all but inhospitable. Called the "Berkeley Pit," not even a pack of angsty teenagers crashing into each other would stand a chance in these waters. Good explains how a flock of Canada Geese famously landed on the water and quickly died from its high concentration of arsenic, cadmium, iron and manganese.
Like other travel guides, this one offers directions, places to eat, spots to sleep and info on the best time of year to visit each site. So if you've got some free time and a huge yacht, you can sail hundreds of miles out into the Pacific ocean to see the epic Eastern Garbage Patch or visit a perpetually burning underground coal fire in central Pennsylvania. Who needs the Maldives when we've got ecological disasters so close to home?!
Related Stories:
· Beautiful Messes: A Travel Guide to Man-Made Disasters [Good]
· Anti Travel coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo of the Berkeley Pit: ankneyd]
