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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.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

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 fallout shelter was actually a storage facility for the nation's emergency currency.

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

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

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

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

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

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

In the heart of Tirana, this underground nuclear bunker has been transformed into a museum.

A museum dedicated to secret surveillance.

This abandoned IDGZ station was one of 49 troposcatter stations in the NATO ACE High network.

Deep in the forest of northern Denmark, this secret underground bunker was built at the height of the Cold War.

An abandoned sanatorium building from the early 20th century sits in the forest of the Rila mountains.

A crumbling monument to a now locally-extinct sport in Bulgaria's oldest ski resort.

There was a top secret plan during World War II to seal a group of soldiers inside the rock.

Visit 17th-century ruins on a strikingly beautiful riverside walking trail.

Engineering ingenuity during the battle of Gibraltar.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.