The Most Disturbing Photos You Will Ever See (Viewers Discretion)

The 22 year-old was walking home from work when she was stabbed in the back of her neck by a mugger. Traumatized she didn't realize she'd been stabbed nor that the knife was embedded a "fraction of an inch from her spinal cord."

Thankfully this is just the result of wax figures after a 1925 fire at the Madame Tussaud's in London.

When Americans dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, victims instantly vaporized where they stood, and the intensity of the nuclear blast left their permanent shadows behind.

The horrible perils of Sudan's 1993 famine was captured at a feeding center by American Photojournalist, James Nachtwey.

The image below from 1910 shows the country's public method of torturing and executing of criminals called Ling Chi, which is death by "a thousand cuts and slow slicing." Although China abolished the practice in 1905, it apparently continued afterwards.

The execution below was taken in Peking, China, where a man was behead, his head was then placed between his legs and left there. In other cases the heads of people who had been decapitated were stuck on sticks or pikes as a warnings to others.

This Pulitzer Prize journalistic war image was taken by Huỳnh Công Út, near Trang Bang after an aerial napalm attack by U.S. troops. It captures the terror of Vietnamese children as they escaped down a road.

After the withdrawal of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s forces from Benghazi, a female rebel fighter fires an AK-47 rifle into the air in support.