Chicago, Illinois
S.S. Eastland Memorial
This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."
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Chicago, Illinois
This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
Museum with an extensive collection of Cray supercomputers and related artifacts.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.
Silver Spring, Maryland
Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.
Bloomington, Indiana
The world's largest anatomically accurate brain sculpture.
Canfranc, Spain
Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.
Oradour-sur-Glane, France
This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.
La Rochelle, France
A massive base for the Nazis' most formidable weapon in the Atlantic.
Tréguennec, France
The haunting concrete remains of a Nazi pebble crusher can still be found in this small French commune.
Comrie, Scotland
Built to hold the worst of the worst of the Nazi war prisoners.
Laranjal do Jari, Brazil
This gravesite in the Amazon Rainforest was left behind by a failed Third Reich expedition.
Los Angeles, California
World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.
Staunton, Virginia
A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.
Joiner, Arkansas
On the side of Arkansas' Great River Road stand the remains of a forgotten World War II POW Camp.
North Bimini Island, Bahamas
An underwater road considered a possible Atlantis location.
Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands
The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.
Nagasaki, Japan
A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.
Hiroshima, Japan
An eerie reminder to the horrors of World War II.
Hiroshima, Japan
A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.
New York, New York
There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.
Washington, D.C.
An atomic bomb-proof strongbox protects the U.S. Constitution from terrorists and thieves.