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Trinity Site obelisk
New Mexico

Trinity Atomic Bomb Site

Once a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.
Jaca, Spain

The Jaca Citadel Military Miniatures Museum

32,000 tiny soldiers are posed in 23 historical settings.
Bokor Hill Station
Kampot Province, Cambodia

Bokor Hill Station

A former French military respite turned jungle tourism hotspot.
San Francisco, California

Heroes Grove Memorial

A quiet marker in memory of local men and women lost in WWI.
Bunker in Albania countryside.
Elbasan County, Albania

Bunkers of Albania

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.
abandoned

Society Adventures with the Ghost Fleet

Annetta Black July 11, 2011
Divers in Chuuk Lagoon.
ruins

Morbid Monday: Shipwrecks & Disasters at Sea

Annetta Black June 13, 2011
This is the right side of the complex. From here you can see one of the few remaining structures and for some reason a city bus.
Chatsworth, California

LA-88 Nike Missile Site

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.
City's sign lists local sights but not the infamous camp. (spinkk/Atlas Obscura)
Dachau, Germany

Dachau Concentration Camp

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.
Permanently Closed
The M65 Atomic Cannon, affectionately called "Atomic Annie" by the grunts back in the day, stands guard against the Flint Hills prairie chickens and hawks. (3 o'Clock AM)
Junction City, Kansas

Atomic Annie

Cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.
Missile Hanger as seen from the outside.
Türisalu, Estonia

Turisalu Missile Hangar

Abandoned Soviet base once stocked with short and medium range missiles pointed at western Europe.
Mimizuka.
Kyoto, Japan

Mimizuka

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.
Heuvelland, Belgium

Kemmel's Top Secret Command Bunker

A Cold War command center is hidden under an idyllic countryside.
Land Entrance to Base
Sevastopol, Crimea

Decommissioned Soviet Sub Base

In the land of the Light Brigade stands a testament to the Cold War.
Green Valley, Arizona

Titan Missile Museum

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.
Yamato model
Kure, Japan

Battleship Yamato Museum

Museum dedicated to the largest battleship ever built.
Permanently Closed
Berlin, Germany

Arthouse Tacheles

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.
Helmsman's station aboard the Akishio
Kure, Japan

The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force Submarine Museum

"Excuse me sir, your submarine is blocking my building."