Green Valley, Arizona
Titan Missile Museum
America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Green Valley, Arizona
America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.
Marshall Islands
An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.
Saranac, New York
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.
Willow Springs, Illinois
The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.
Silver City, Georgia
The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.
West Palm Beach, Florida
Built in just a little over a week this preserved bunker was created to protect our most attractive POTUS while he was on vacation.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.
Sun Valley, Idaho
Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.
Arco, Idaho
The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.
Brazil
An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.
Savannah, Georgia
Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.
Barbados
A giant gun barrel in Barbados that once hoped to shoot outer space with science.
Shoreham, New York
An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.
Ascension Island
Remote, volcanic island that Darwin, Hooker, and the Royal Navy shaped into a thriving, artificial ecosystem.
Bermuda
A tropical paradise once home to space exploration and military installations.
Homestead, Florida
When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.
Cape Canaveral, Florida
This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.
Bloomington, Indiana
If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.
Bowman, South Carolina
This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.
Mansfield, Ohio
Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
Dayton, Ohio
This stuffed pigeon of war had the very serious name "John Silver" until he lost a leg in battle.
Dayton, Ohio
A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.
North Bend, Ohio
This tower-tomb honors a president who only held office for a little over a month but dedicated his life to his country.