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Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

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

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

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

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

Launch site for nuclear war against Western Europe.

Secluded amid upstate New York’s Adirondack Mountains lies this subterranean emblem of a nation on the brink of nuclear war. And it's for sale.

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.

An abandoned Incan construction project left behind a mysterious "doorway."

An ancient Incan convent on Lake Titicaca's Island of the Moon.

Mysterious Incan ruins on a tiny island in Lake Titicaca.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

Death road of Bolivia.

The world’s highest ski resort was deserted after an 18,000-year-old glacier melted away.

The celebrity luchadores of La Paz are tough ladies in traditional petticoats and braids.

The soaring gondola lines form the longest aerial cable car system in the world.

Bolivia's needle-like rock formations.

A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.

Thousands of fossilized footprints speckle this Bolivian national park.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

This hotel is located on the edge of the world's largest salt flat and is made out of the only material around.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.