Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

In 2018, Pohoiki Road was severed by lava flowing from the eruption of Kilauea.

It's unclear what caused the fire that led to this opulent hotel's demise.

When the sun sets, the customers arrive—but they’re not human.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

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

The birthplace of both the Atomic Age and Godzilla, and the namesake of the bathing suit.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

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

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

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

This largely forgotten piece of Cold War history stands hidden in the woods just north of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

Floor-to-ceiling frescoes by local art students cover the interior of a nearly 200-year-old church.

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

This 19th-century religious artwork was once highly controversial—because it was donated to the church by a divorcee.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.

A facility built in 1992 for an underground nuclear test remains in place today.