Former military fort and site of untold horrors during WWII, this island may become the Adriatic's next luxury resort.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

A beautiful mountaintop mausoleum devoted to a Montenegrin icon can't seem to make everyone happy.

A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.

Legend says a witch conjured the world's third largest whirlpool to protect Scotland from a nasty pirate.

Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls.

An outstanding and haunting glimpse of the horrors of the Great Famine of Ireland.

Impressive mining ruins overlook a spectacular view of Ireland's Copper Coast.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

Bomb tests and sheep ranchers share the world's largest military land base.

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

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

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.

A forgotten Cold War relic hidden in the outskirts of a Wisconsin city.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.

This oddly beautiful water cistern is a techno-temple to the wet stuff and a multimedia masterpiece.

The first dish to bounce radio signals off the Moon, it was the forerunner to the U.S. Space Program.

A completely round house designed for the Atomic Age.

The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.