Leba, Poland
Nazi Rocket Test Site
This open-air museum was originally a World War II testing ground for German missiles and rockets.
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Leba, Poland
This open-air museum was originally a World War II testing ground for German missiles and rockets.
Peenemünde, Germany
The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.
Powell River, British Columbia
One of the final concrete ships built before World War II is now a crumbling breakwater.
Tofino, British Columbia
The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.
Urubamba, Peru
These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.
Jumièges, France
Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.
Franklin, Pennsylvania
Priceless space junk on display in front of a local Dairy Queen.
New York, New York
A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.
Mount Charleston, Nevada
A memorial to the unknown and unheralded men and women of the Cold War military and intelligence services.
Jersey City, New Jersey
This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.
Jersey City, New Jersey
A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.
Matawan, New Jersey
The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."
New York, New York
A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.
Turkmenistan
A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.
Sylva, North Carolina
The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.
Cullowhee, North Carolina
Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.
Nye County, Nevada
A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.
Nye County, Nevada
The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.
Holmdel, New Jersey
Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.
Iceland
The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.
Boston, Massachusetts
American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.
Boston, Massachusetts
A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.
Boston, Massachusetts
A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.
Condeixa-a-Velha, Portugal
One of the largest Roman settlements in Portugal.