Places LewisWasHere Wants to Go

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

The first privately-owned space capsule to orbit and land carried a secret payload: a wheel of Le Brouère.

Ethereal alien hums and haunting whale songs emitting from...a giant sheet of vibrating metal?

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

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

Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.

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.

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

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

This was one of the first (and last) university-built and operated nuclear reactors.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

Was there a small "backpack nuke" hidden in the attic? JFK apparently thought so.

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

The iconic D.C. restaurant where the Cuban Missile Crisis was negotiated, now a Walgreens.