From the air, the massive crater resembles a pink virus floating against a pool of green.

Meteors, comets and asteroids have slammed into the earth with a force many times greater than the most powerful nuclear bombs. Sometimes, mass extinction followed.

[Photo] A London bus after falling into a massive bomb crater in the center of Balham High Road, London, England, UK, Oct 15 1940.

Ponds created in the holes blasted by second world war bombs are as biodiverse as natural ones, and could help preserve species as the salty pools vanish

Water-filled bomb craters from B-52 strikes against the Viet Cong mark the rice paddies and orchards west of Saigon, Vietnam, 1966. Most of the area had been abandoned by the peasants who used to farm on the land. (AP Photo/Henri Huet)

It looks like the surface of the Moon but this pock-marked landscape is actually the result of decades of nuclear weapons testing in the Nevada desert.

The photographer Henning Rogge’s latest body of work explores how bomb craters from the Second World War have become a part of Germany’s natural landscape.

A World War II bomb likely detonated and created the massive crater that appeared overnight in a field near Limburg, Germany, officials say.

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

The Veteran’s Memorial Highway veers through seemingly endless Nevada desert before it intersects State Route 373, just a short way from the Jackass Aeropark. At this crossroads 100 miles northwest...

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MRO image of a crater on Mars with interesting landforms surrounding it.

Photographs by Stephen Wilkes of humanity’s environmental remnants.

Only one of the original Seven Wonders of the World remains, so we've picked seven new wonders that you can actually visit across the globe over the next year

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. With its ring of verdant islands surro ...

Night-time eruption of Anak Krakatau volcano; a powerful blast from the new crater showers the island with incandescent bombs. Photo taken in November 2007, taken during the latest VolcanoDiscovery expedition.

Emmet Gowin's photographs from above show the true impact of nuclear testing in the United States.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

An archive of aerial photographs snapped by daring pilots during secret reconnaissance missions in the Second World War have been revealed to the public for the first time.

Stark, masterful photos made by Margaret Bourke-White in 1945 'show the devastation of Germany at its worst and reveal the overall pattern of Allied air strategy.'

Download Image of Victory Gardens--for family and country. A thriving Victory Garden--not on an island, but in a London bomb crater, close to Westminster Cathedral. Where the Nazi's sowed death, a Londoner and his wife have sown life-giving vegetables. Free for commercial use, no attribution required. Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.. Dated: 01.01.1940. Topics: united kingdom, england, london, nitrate negatives, purley london england, victory, country, island, bomb, crater, london bomb crater, westminster, cathedral, westminster cathedral, nazi, death, londoner, wife, vegetables, 1940 s, 40 s, wwii, national socialist german workers party, national socialism, history, world war ii, world war two, second world war, world war 2, library of congress

Meteors, comets and asteroids have slammed into the earth with a force many times greater than the most powerful nuclear bombs. Sometimes, mass extinction followed.

[Photo] Aerial view of the aftermath of Operation Trinity, 17 Jul 1945; note the smaller crater on bottom right, which was the crater left by the 7 May 1945 test with 108 tons of TNT

Volcanic bombs and ashes are flying high above the crater of Anak Krakatau. Vulkanische Bomen und Asche fliegen hoch über den Krater des Krakataus.

From Above: The Story of Aerial Photography is a celebration of 150 years of aerial photos. Here we present 20 of the tome's compelling images from around the world.

Nuclear weapons have been developed for not just the Cold War.