Fallon, Nevada
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.
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Fallon, Nevada
On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.
Port Aransas, Texas
The oldest functional consecrated church on Mustang Island.
Atlanta, Georgia
Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.
Graford, Texas
The bridge continues the legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policy.
Logan, Ohio
Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.
Three Rivers, New Mexico
More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.
Magdalena, New Mexico
Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
The shattered remnants of a meteor that struck Santa Fe more than a billion years ago.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.
Tijeras, New Mexico
The U.S. Air Force has an anti-satellite laser weapon.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.
Los Angeles, California
This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.
Cedar Point, Kansas
Homestead Cemetery hold the remains of the United States' first known professional tattoo artists.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
The moving metal works of one troubled artist can still be viewed on his front lawn... for now.
Carthage, Texas
The only international border marker within the United States.
California City, California
The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.
Goldfield, Nevada
Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.
Kingman, Arizona
A tribute to the statues of Easter Island along Route 66.
McMinnville, Oregon
A 36-ton remnant of the last Ice Age now resides amid picturesque vineyards.
Lorton, Virginia
The last of nine massive kilns that produced many of the red bricks for buildings in Washington, D.C. and northern Virginia in the early 20th century.
Graniteville, Vermont
Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.