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A Cold War command center is hidden under an idyllic countryside.

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.

This top-secret nuclear bunker hidden in a Bosnian mountain has been converted to a modern art exhibition space.

A former top secret nuclear fallout shelter now operates like a hotel stuck in the Cold War.

Near Birmingham, England three and a half miles of top-secret tunnels housed a World War II “shadow factory” and a Cold War nuclear bunker.

This Cold War–era underground city includes offices for Mao Zedong and Lin Biao.

This disused Cold War bunker has been restored to all of its early 60s glory.

A southern Swedish island is home to the last ERSTA artillery battery, meant to protect the shoreline during the Cold War.

This Cold War–era fallout shelter was actually a storage facility for the nation's emergency currency.

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

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.

A top secret Cold War bunker hidden beneath a Latvian spa facility is now open for tours.

This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

Self-sufficient greenhouse floating on the Hudson River.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

The Ryerss mansion in Burholme Park now houses a community library and a museum filled with a trove of oddities from around the world.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

In a New Jersey cemetery, the final resting place of two brothers who fell victim to a deadly mushroom.

A mixture of strange symbols, ciphers, words and cryptograms carved in 1876 remain unsolved to this day.