Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania
Jayne Mansfield Grave
The final resting place of the Hollywood star who came to a tragic end.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania
The final resting place of the Hollywood star who came to a tragic end.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.
Laurel, Maryland
This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.
Concord, Massachusetts
This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.
Baltimore, Maryland
A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.
Fort Worth, Texas
Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.
Chantilly, Virginia
At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.
Athens, Wisconsin
The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.
Los Angeles, California
Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.
Hiroshima, Japan
A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.
Chicago, Illinois
This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.
Boulder, Colorado
The clock that sets them all.
Tokyo, Japan
An oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.
Klevan, Ukraine
This beautiful natural train tunnel is said to grant the wishes of visiting lovebirds.
Yermolaivka, Ukraine
Last remaining nuclear missile base in Ukraine.
Arco, Idaho
The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.
Benson, Arizona
What is the Thing?
Green Valley, Arizona
America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.
Winslow, Arizona
The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.
Casa Grande, Arizona
An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.
Winslow, Arizona
A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.
Jerome, Arizona
Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.
Leninskiy rayon, Russia
The laboratory where the Soviet secret police invented exotic poisons used to kill dissidents in hideous and (mostly) untraceable ways.