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A horse walks among damaged government buildings on the nearly destroyed island of Barbuda on December 8, 2017. Barbuda, which covers only 62 square miles, was nearly leveled when Hurricane Irma made landfall with 185mph winds on Sept. 6, 2017. Only two days later, fearing Barbuda would be hit again by Hurricane Jose, the prime minister ordered an evacuation of all residents. Most had to seek shelter in Barbuda's much larger sister island Antigua.

The Tyrannosaurus rex fossil known as Stan is displayed in a gallery at Christie’s auction house in New York City on September 17, 2020.

For some 65 miles in the Bolivian highlands, little more than a lane separates drivers from skydivers. North Yungas Road, including a 25-mile pass marked with memorial crosses known as the Death Road, leads from the outskirts of La Paz—the world’s highest capital—to the small town of Coroico. A nearby paved bypass completed in recent years provides a safer alternative, but mountain bikers and others who dare to take the old Death Road begin their white-knuckled adventure through the pass of La Cumbre on a barren 15,255-foot ridge. Glimpses across the valley offer vivid reminders of their precarious position up a vertical wall. Finally, the path descends into a humidity-choked haze of enormous palm fronds and wild coca bushes, teeming insects, and farms cultivating coffee and citrus. Backstory: In the mid-1990s, the unprotected precipice earned notoriety as the most dangerous road in the world. Inside track: “It’s extremely narrow,” says Dan Grec, a Canadian traveller who recently road-tripped from Alaska to Argentina. “There are plenty of places where, if you came across an oncoming car, you would have to reverse and figure out how far back to go until you could fit past each other.”

Men clear debris from a roadway the morning after Hurricane Irma swept through the area on September 11 in Naples, Florida.

People evacuate New York City's Financial District on 9/11 as both World Trade Center towers burn.

Smoke and flames billow as United Airlines Flight 175 crashes into the World Trade Center's south tower on 9/11, killing everyone aboard and hundreds more inside the building.

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 27: One World Trade Center stands on May 27, 2014 in New York City. With months before it was scheduled to open, the owners of One World Trade were cutting office rents due to a scarcity of renters at the iconic location built near the former location of the original World Trade Center buildings, which were destroyed in the September 11 terrorist attacks. With only 55% of current space leased, owners and developers of the building cut rents by 10% to £52 ($69) a square foot down from £57 ($75) a square foot. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)