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

Rumor has it the hot dog stand was targeted by two Russian nuclear missiles.

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

These colossal desert barcodes have been fine-tuning spy satellites for decades.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

A Cold War site complete with rusty structures, hiking trails, and beautiful views.

This largely forgotten piece of Cold War history stands hidden in the woods just north of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

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

This former Cold War missile control site played an important role in the creation of GPS.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

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

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

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.

A relic of the Cold War in Chicago.

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.

Dozens of rockets and missiles are on display outside a testing facility in the Utah desert.

This tower once served as a radar station during the Cold War.

Panoramic views from the mountains over a facility built to provide tuberculosis patients with fresh mountain air.

This plaque in one of London's oldest public hospitals commemorates the first meeting of two of Britain's most famous literary heroes: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

This former psychiatric hospital was once one of the largest in Australia.

An overgrown and abandoned tuberculosis ward resides in the midst of a quaint modern neighborhood.

Inside a state forest, the forgotten remains of a Cold War defensive installation.

An abandoned village, frozen in time by the threat of a landslide.

This abandoned villa of makeshift buildings was once the home of dancer Elis Sinistö.