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Cold War

Topanga, California

Theatricum Botanicum

Will Geer's outdoor theater started as a mountain retreat for actors, musicians, and other artists who were blacklisted during the Red Scare.

Permanently Closed

Nike Missile Control Site N-85

Newport News, Virginia

Nike Missile Control Site N-85

This former POW camp was transformed into a Cold War missile installation.

T-486 Patriot.

ATK Rocket Garden

Dozens of rockets and missiles are on display outside a testing facility in the Utah desert.

Fernald Preserve

A former nuclear facility during the Cold War turned nature preserve.

Tashkent Park

Seattle, Washington

Tashkent Park

This park celebrates a sister city relationship that survived the Cold War.

The glass dome that encloses the missile silo opening.

Wall, South Dakota

Delta-09 Minuteman Missile Site

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.

State-owned factories in the GDR produced plastic toys, furniture, household goods, and even a car.

The Race to Preserve East Germany's Colorful Plastic Past

Meet the conservators trying to keep plastics around longer. It's harder than you think.

Amy Crawford November 15, 2021

Many escape tunnels were dug under the Berlin Wall in the Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood, including the famous Tunnel 57.

Remembering a Daring Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall

Nearly 60 years after he fled East Berlin, Andreas Springer shares a story of risk, freedom, and the deepest tunnel beneath the Cold War's most infamous border.

Jordan Todorov September 29, 2021

A monument to the site stands near the entrance to the recreation area.

Chicago, Illinois

Nike Missile Site C-44

A relic of the Cold War in Chicago.

Bratislava, Slovakia

Devinska Kobyla Missile Base

A relic of the Cold War tucked away in the forested hills above Bratislava.

Looking east at the Sand Springs Range (skylined) from near US-50. The Project Shoal site is near the crest about a quarter of the way from the left edge of the photo.

Project Shoal Site

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.

Nomehenge is desolate, but popular among locals.

Welcome to Nomehenge, Home to Alaska's Soviet-Era Antennas

“It might sound strange, but it’s a nice place to be.”

Bailey Berg June 16, 2021

Ligatne Secret Soviet Bunker

23 Places to Relive the Cold War

Tunnels, towers, and control rooms preserve an era of tension and paranoia.

Gemma Tarlach May 6, 2021

The Itäkeskus swimming hall doubles as an emergency shelter beneath Helsinki.

How Cold War Fears Helped Create Helsinki's Subterranean Paradise

The Finnish capital's city-within-a-city has a church, a hockey rink, and stockpiles of life-saving supplies.

Michael Hunt March 22, 2021

Camp Century staff, seen here in 1960, excavated tunnels about 25 feet below the ice sheet's surface before abandoning the project

How a Secret Cold War Project Led to Signs of Ancient Life—and a New Warning About the Future

Researchers found fossils in a forgotten ice core that rewrite Greenland’s icy past.

Gemma Tarlach March 15, 2021

Bunker-703. Vault No1.

Bunker-703

A former special storage facility for documents during the Cold War.

Vladimir Demikhov demonstrates, for an audience of experts, the implantation of an artificial heart–like device in a dog at the 18th International Congress of Surgery in Munich, on September 18, 1959.

How the United States and Soviet Union Embarked on a Macabre Surgical Arms Race

Cold War animal experimentation and the roots of transplantation medicine.

Brandy Schillace March 4, 2021

Retirement for this 707 means being parked beside a forest.

The Last Plane at Tegel Airport Has Survived Hijackers and Cold War

Parked far from the runway, the dilapidated 707 is an artifact of Berlin's divided past.

Susannah Edelbaum February 17, 2021