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Fábrica de Orbaitzeta, Spain

Munitions Factory of Orbaitzeta

Abandoned 18th century weapons factory in the Aezkoa Valley.

Trinity Atomic Bomb Site

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

The Jaca Citadel Military Miniatures Museum

32,000 tiny soldiers are posed in 23 historical settings.

Büren, Germany

Castle of Wewelsburg

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

Podgaric Monument.

Podgarić, Croatia

Podgaric Monument

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

Bokor Hill Station

Kampot Province, Cambodia

Bokor Hill Station

A former French military respite turned jungle tourism hotspot.

Summerville, South Carolina

Dorchester, South Carolina's Abandoned Town

First established in 1696, this settlement was abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

First Shearith Israel Graveyard

New York, New York

First Shearith Israel Graveyard

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.

San Francisco, California

Heroes Grove Memorial

A quiet marker in memory of local men and women lost in WWI.

Bunker in Albania countryside.

Elbasan County, Albania

Bunkers of Albania

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

Society Adventures with the Ghost Fleet

Annetta Black July 11, 2011

Divers in Chuuk Lagoon.

Morbid Monday: Shipwrecks & Disasters at Sea

Annetta Black June 13, 2011

Permanently Closed

London, England

Growing Underground

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

This is the right side of the complex. From here you can see one of the few remaining structures and for some reason a city bus.

Chatsworth, California

LA-88 Nike Missile Site

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

City's sign lists local sights but not the infamous camp. (spinkk/Atlas Obscura)

Dachau, Germany

Dachau Concentration Camp

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

Junction City, Kansas

Atomic Annie

A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

Kupr, Sierra Leone

Bunce Island

Home of the ruins of a British slave castle.

Missile Hanger as seen from the outside.

Türisalu, Estonia

Turisalu Missile Hangar

Abandoned Soviet base once stocked with short and medium range missiles pointed at western Europe.