The Adzhimushkay quarries

Limestone workings outside Kerch where, from May to October 1942, a garrison of soldiers and civilians held out after the city fell and they went underground. The Germans blew in the roofs and pumped gas into the galleries. Of some thirteen thousand people, a few hundred survived. The diaries found in the workings afterwards are among the hardest documents of that war. Part of the quarries is a museum today; the rest is closed, because remains are still being found there.

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Plymouth

Stolica karaibskiej wyspy Montserrat, zasypana popiołem i spływami błotnymi podczas erupcji Soufrière Hills w latach 1995-97. Formalnie wciąż pozostaje stolicą — jedyne miasto widmo z takim statusem.