Engineering Catastrophes

The famed Pacific Coast Highway is shut down by a critical bridge failure.

An iconic telescope in Puerto Rico suffers a spectacular collapse.

A crane collapse leaves seven dead on a holiday weekend in Manhattan.

On a snowy morning in Pittsburgh, a messy commute becomes dangerous after a bridge collapses; an investigation reveals how corrosion and other environmental factors helped bring down this decades-old structure.

An aging dam in Nebraska fails after the area is pummeled by a superstorm.

A distinguished library is ravaged by not one but two disastrous fires.

Twenty people are killed after a hotel explodes in America's heartland.

A sinkhole envelops a residential street in the Bronx.

Tragedy strikes in San Juan when an explosion rocks a busy shopping center.

An explosion at a chemical plant in New Jersey kills five workers.