Cold War

This former Soviet military base has over 10 original aircraft and an enormous amount of memorabilia on display.

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

A lone historical marker off the highway and scattered debris are all that remain of this Cold War-era missile site.

This nondescript building hides an entrance to an underground nuclear tunnel system.

An abandoned underground bunker not far from downtown New Orleans.

Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.

Part of a secret 1970s nuclear defense program is now open to the public.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

This largely forgotten piece of Cold War history stands hidden in the woods just north of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

A forgotten Cold War relic hidden in the outskirts of a Wisconsin city.

This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

Soviet intelligence had a keen interest in the Cold War linguistic school at this old Scottish airfield.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

A small museum in the Bay of Pigs gives the Cuban perspective on the famously failed U.S. invasion.