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Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

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

Three abandoned missile silos are hiding in plain sight behind a suburban development in Maryland.

This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.

A park dedicated to veterans with various military vehicles, including an F-14 Tomcat, in the middle of the suburbs.

Modern technology and live displays tell the story of the Pacific during WWII for the Internet generation.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

A ship that lived many lives under many names is now known merely as the "Ghost Ship."

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

The only retired U.S. nuclear missile silo that is open to the public.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

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

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

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

See four top-secret US spy aircraft of the Cold War era, including the legendary SR-71 Blackbird and the A-12 Oxcart.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.

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

The first privately-owned space capsule to orbit and land carried a secret payload: a wheel of Le Brouère.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.