Places not to go before you die

So I just downloaded Google Earth again, mostly so I could look at things like this and this. But in honor of my imminent travels to parts unknown, and in honor of my return from vacation, I thought I would put together a little anti-travel guide, and present it in installments (read: as I come up with them). In other words, these places that if someone offered you a free trip to, you would laugh at them, and then say no.
Disclaimer: I have not been to these places. Why? Because I don't hate myself.


Installment 1
Nauru
A small island on the Equator, just south of the Marshall Islands, Nauru is perhaps best known for being an 8 square mile phosphate strip mine. 100 or so years of strip mining has the interesting side effect of desolating the surrounding area (not that there was much to begin with on Nauru), and as a result a significant portion of the wildlife around Nauru has been killed off. The economy of Nauru is dependent on three things: Phosphate mining, providing a haven for money launderers and seekers of asylum in Australia (God knows who would seek asylum in Nauru), and attracting aid from both Taiwan and China by waffling on its position between whether Taiwan is actually a country. Naturally, these three things lend to a flourishing economy, with an unemployment rate of approximately 90%. And really that's about it. I'm not sure how you actually GET to Nauru, but according to this Wikipedia article, you should only go if you feel like becoming obese and contracting Type 2 diabetes, or if you already have and need some support in the form of a small Pacific island where 90% of the population is obese and nearly half have diabetes. Hey, at least the view of the ocean is nice. Oh wait, its saturated in phosphate runoff? Never mind.