A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.

Secluded amid upstate New York’s Adirondack Mountains lies this subterranean emblem of a nation on the brink of nuclear war. And it's for sale.

A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

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

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

An urban laboratory.