Demolisions

In 2000, Controlled Demolition Inc. took Seattle's Kingdome out with over two tons of dynamite.

This demolition of a public housing project in San Juan, Puerto Rico set a Guinness World Record for the most buildings destroyed in a single blast.

The old Las Vegas hotel and casino is demolished by a controlled implosion on January 11, 2006.

Pandemonium breaks out when spectators get too close to the implosion of the New Haven Coliseum.

Before it was imploded, Detroit's JL Hudson Department Store was the tallest department store in the United States.

The Trojan Nuclear Power Plant in Oregon is destroyed by a controlled implosion.

Nearly a ton of explosives are used in China to demolish sixteen buildings at once.

Unoccupied since its construction in 1975, the Hilton in Beirut was finally reduced to rubble in 2002.

The bridge over Narragansett, Rhode Island gets taken out by explosives.