Explore 191 Cold war Collections - Atlas Obscura
Places near me Random place

191 Items Tagged

Cold War

Share
Changes in cabin pressure may cause explosion.
Gastro Obscura

Exploding Chocolate Teacakes

In the 1960s, Royal Air Force pilots made a startling discovery about their sweets.
Aerial view of the SCBI
Front Royal, Virginia

Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

This sprawling farm was once a Cold War-era hideaway for the nation's top diplomats.
Pepsi was the first "capitalist" product sold in the Soviet Union.
ships

When the Soviet Union Paid Pepsi in Warships

The company had a long, strange relationship with the U.S.S.R.
Anne Ewbank January 12, 2018
Two of the entrances are visible in satellite imagery.
Fairfield, Pennsylvania

Raven Rock Mountain Complex

The Cold War-era "underground Pentagon" is a sprawling subterranean hideaway for the Defense Department.
The USS Pueblo, Pyongyang
Pyongyang, North Korea

The USS Pueblo

Captured in 1968, the Cold War spy ship is the only U.S. Navy vessel being held by a foreign government.
Nike Missile Site W-92.
Gaithersburg, Maryland

Nike Missile Site W-92

Three abandoned missile silos are hiding in plain sight behind a suburban development in Maryland.
Look closely, photographer Cris Benton takes a high altitude kite selfie.
Edwards Air Force Base, California

Edwards AFB Satellite Calibration Targets

These colossal desert barcodes have been fine-tuning spy satellites for decades.
Mt. Umunhum Cube
cold war

What's Left of America's Cold War Civil Defense System?

Hawaii is testing its nuclear warning signal. How much other infrastructure is still ready for action?
Sarah Laskow November 29, 2017
Berlin Wall segments in Los Angeles.
museums

A Cold-War Museum Gets the Perfect New Home—an Empty Cold-War Armory

Culver City's Wende Museum is moving into what was once a secret military site.
Sarah Laskow November 16, 2017
Congressional Country Club in 2011.
Bethesda, Maryland

Congressional Country Club

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.
Washington, D.C.

Russian Ambassador's Residence

Was there a small "backpack nuke" hidden in the attic? JFK apparently thought so.
The St. Elizabeths center building on August 2006.
Washington, D.C.

St. Elizabeths Hospital

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.
Washington, D.C.

Peirce Mill Spy Station

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.
Sillamae, Estonia.
Sillamäe, Estonia

Sillamäe

This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.
Aerial view of the Soviet summer camp.
Bluemont, Virginia

Soviet Embassy's 'Summer Camp' House

Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.
Poledník lookout tower.
Prášily, Czechia

Poledník Lookout Tower

A Cold War secret surveillance tower used to spy on radio communications.
The parking lot and entrance.
Portland, Oregon

Kelly Butte Civil Defense Center

Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.
cold war

Solving the Decades-Old Mystery of the White Box That Fell From the Sky

David McPherson Sr. suspected the CIA was responsible. He was right.
Erik Shilling July 26, 2017