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Kupr, Sierra Leone

Bunce Island

Home of the ruins of a British slave castle.

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.

Mimizuka

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

Charleston, South Carolina

Drayton Hall

Oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

Queens, New York

Pulaski Bridge

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia

Congressional Fallout Shelter at the Greenbrier Resort

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

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.

Laußig, Germany

Secret Military Bunker Kossa

This East German military command bunker was ready for World War III.

Ottawa, Ontario

The Diefenbunker

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.

Externsteine.

Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany

Externsteine

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

Green Valley, Arizona

Titan Missile Museum

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

Yamato model

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

The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force Submarine Museum

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

Nekoma, North Dakota

The Pyramid of North Dakota

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

Kristiansand, Norway

Kristiansand Kanonmuseum

The last fully functional fortress of Germany's World War II Atlantikwall.

Dresden, Germany

Slaughterhouse Five

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.