Volterra, Italy
Cimitero di San Finocchi
Abandoned cemetery of the former Psychiatric Hospital of Volterra.
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Volterra, Italy
Abandoned cemetery of the former Psychiatric Hospital of Volterra.
Beelitz, Germany
Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.
Coquitlam, British Columbia
Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.
Louisville, Kentucky
This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.
Los Angeles, California
A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.
Uravan, Colorado
Only a few signs remain of the buried Colorado mining town that supplied the uranium for the first atomic bomb.
San Juan Teotihuacan de Arista, Mexico
This pre-Hispanic apartment complex also includes ancestral paintings that point to its military past.
Hiroshima, Japan
A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.
Roswell, Georgia
A vast collection of rare, historical, and vintage supercomputers.
Gainesville, Georgia
A mysterious inscription may hold a clue about the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke.
Humble, Texas
In the late 1990s, a mechanic and fan bought this iconic sportscar back from the dead.
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.
Sevastopol, Ukraine
In the land of the Light Brigade stands a testament to the Cold War.
Laußig, Germany
This East German military command bunker was ready for World War III.
Heuvelland, Belgium
A Cold War command center is hidden under an idyllic countryside.
Grenada
Rare signs of the former Soviet Union in the Caribbean, though not where you'd expect them.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Formerly abandoned underground complex to keep royals safe from a nuclear war that never came.
North Yorkshire, England
This disused Cold War bunker has been restored to all of its early 60s glory.
Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This top-secret nuclear bunker hidden in a Bosnian mountain has been converted to a modern art exhibition space.
Cooperstown, North Dakota
These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.
Prague, Czechia
Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.
New York, New York
There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
This abandoned radar site is slowly being taken back by the jungle, its mission cut short by the end of the Cold War.
Brno, Czechia
A former top secret nuclear fallout shelter now operates like a hotel stuck in the Cold War.