Places rog18 Wants to Go

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

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

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

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

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

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

Floor-to-ceiling frescoes by local art students cover the interior of a nearly 200-year-old church.

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

This 19th-century religious artwork was once highly controversial—because it was donated to the church by a divorcee.

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

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.

A facility built in 1992 for an underground nuclear test remains in place today.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

Someone really, really wanted to save this fast-food icon from demolition.

Oddly enough, a pair of Wolfs funded the construction of this Little Red Riding Hood sculpture.

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

Every summer, this shrine sets up a tiny drinking fountain reserved for thirsty apians.

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

The building features one of the last remaining free-floating spiral grand staircases in the U.S.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

The way that light hits a stained glass window on a specific day is one of many "clues" to a mysterious treasure.