Cold War

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

What was to be the world's most secure Cold War document vault ended up as just a few shallow caves.

This giant Cold War satellite dish has become a symbol of Trinidad's need for sovereignty.

Rumor had it that these concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland helped align spy satellites. (They didn’t.)

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

Dedicated to an "Unknown Man," this grave holds either the remains of a lovelorn suicide or a Cold War spy.

This disused Cold War bunker has been restored to all of its early 60s glory.

Formerly abandoned underground complex to keep royals safe from a nuclear war that never came.

Rare signs of the former Soviet Union in the Caribbean, though not where you'd expect them.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

Below a historic English market town lies a secret underground city complete with kitchens, laundries, storerooms, and an underground lake.

Touching displays of wishes for peace from the Cold War era.

One of the most horrible legacies of the Cold War is a site where the Soviet Union tested nuclear bombs on civilians.

A rustic house where intellectuals and investors tried to put an end to Cold War nuclear armament.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.