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A lone historical marker off the highway and scattered debris are all that remain of this Cold War-era missile site.

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

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

A rare particle accelerator with a tremendous energy range is tucked away at Ohio University.

This abandoned nuclear cooling tower casts a shadow over a bucolic town.

This extensive nuclear fallout shelter built from 42 school buses could house 500 people in its tunnels.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

One of the Cemestos prefab homes built to secretly house thousands of Manhattan Project workers.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

Instead of becoming a power plant, this abandoned complex became a massive letdown.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

One of the most powerful computers in the world can be visited by anyone who wants to experience more computing than they can handle.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.