The Juarez Valley
The Juarez Valley on the Mexico-Texas border, a forty mile stretch of cotton fields and ghost towns, is so dangerous that even the police don't dare to enter.
Situated to the east of Juarez City – a town which held the title of the world's most violent for three consecutive years – the criminal cartels in 'Murder Valley' run drugs, weapons and illegal immigrants across the border, murdering in cold blood anyone who interferes with their business.
Today the Juarez Valley, which runs along the Rio Grande and is just a stone's throw from the eighteen-foot fence on the US border, sees more death and violence than anywhere else in North America. It has even been suggested that it could be the deadliest place on Earth
YUNGAS ROAD, BOLIVIA
The former world’s most dangerous highway (alternatively known as Death Road, Grove's Road, Coroico Road, Camino de las Yungas, El Camino de la Muerte, Road of Death, Unduavi-Yolosa Highway) climbs up a famous Bolivian mountain pass, La Cumbre, at an elevation of 4,650 metres (15,260 ft) above the sea level. This road was legendary for its extreme danger. Based on the ratio of death per mile, on an average, 26 vehicles plummet over the edge each year, claiming more than 100 lives. The estimation is that 200 to 300 travellers were killed yearly along the road. With these numbers, in 1995, the Inter American Development Bank christened this highway "The Most Dangerous Road in the World”
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
As many as 16 in 2016 alone. The country has been plagued by incidents since mid-2015, with last year particularly bloody. There has only been one so far in 2017 - a car bomb and gun assault on a courthouse in the Turkish city of Izmir, which has been blamed on Kurdish militants.
The majority of the of the attacks have been in the cities, Istanbul and the capital Ankara, away from the coastal areas popular with tourists.
LAKE KIVU
Lake Nyos in Cameroon released a similar cloud of gas in 1986. Because carbon dioxide is heavier than air, 1.7 million tons of the gas bubbled out of the water and rolled onto the shore. Within a few minutes, some 1,746 people and more than 2,000 suffocated.
SAN PEDRO SULA, HONDURAS
Honduras had the highest homicide rate in the world. The city of San Pedro Sula had the highest homicide rate in the country. And the Rivera Hernández neighborhood, where 194 people were killed or hacked to death in 2013, had the highest homicide rate in the city. Tens of thousands of young Hondurans traveled to the United States to plead for asylum from the drug gangs’ violence.