Centralia's underground coal veins have smoldered since 1962. The ghost town's highways have since become a strange graffiti message board.
In 1962, volunteer firefighters burned a landfill in Centralia, PA, not knowing that they'd ignite a whole network of coal veins under the town.
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Pavements buckled. Temperatures rose. Sinkholes clawed out swaths of sidewalks, spewing carbon monoxide.
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The town was evacuated and stripped of its zip code.
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And in the years since, Centralia's infamy has attracted swarms of disaster tourists, urban decay photographers, bored teens armed with aerosol cans.
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