Wardenclyffe Laboratory is the last remaining research facility of Nikola Tesla, the famed Serb/Croat (he is claimed by both) physicist whose bold ideas about electricity led to the development of... »

Instruments of Science, Electrical Oddities, Retro-Tech, Incredible Ruins, Subterranean Sites | Edited by Trevor and Dylan

Red bricks melted to stalactites, look like Hell Raiser's "Pinhead" character. »

Disaster Areas, Incredible Ruins, Subterranean Sites | Edited by littlebrumble

In disaster movies, when the asteroid is hurtling towards earth, or the super volcano is about to blow, there is always a top-secret location where the president, government officials and... »

Retro-Tech, Disaster Areas, Incredible Ruins, Repositories of Knowledge, Subterranean Sites | Edited by and Dylan

Allied bombs and rough seas have reduced the once mighty turn of the century giant into an armless ruin. Located at the end of a popular sunbathing beach in the Italian riviera town of Monterosso... »

Strange Statues, Incredible Ruins | Edited by Annetta

Airplane aficionados rejoice! Heaven has been found and it's on the grounds of the Davis-Montham Air Force Base in Tuscon, Arizona. The 2,600-acre area, officially called the 309th Aerospace... »

Incredible Ruins | Edited by littlebrumble and stanestane

The Safeguard Program was developed in the 1960s to shoot down incoming Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles. Built at a cost of 6 billion dollars in Nekoma, North Dakota, the site was a... »

Incredible Ruins | Edited by Kaluz, Dylan and others

The Kristiansand Kanonmuseum is home to the world's largest fully functional land-mounted naval gun. Once a part of the Atlantikwall (Atlantic Wall), the Nazi's huge defensive line that ran... »

Museums and Collections, Unique Collections, Retro-Tech, Incredible Ruins, Subterranean Sites | Edited by vicphillipson and wythe

In a quiet area of Griffith Park in Los Angeles, you can picnic in a bear grotto and climb inside abandoned monkey cages. If you have ever wondered what you appear like to the animals in the zoo,... »

Ghost Towns, Incredible Ruins | Edited by Lisa E

This abandoned NSA field station sits atop an 80 meter artificial hill in the Grunewald forest on the west edge of Berlin. The hill has a noteworthy history: created from the post-WWII debris of... »

Incredible Ruins | Edited by blainedoneill

LA-88 was one of the few dozen Nike missile bases located around LA to protect the civilian population and military industrial sites from Soviet attack and was in operation from 1957-1974. It... »

Incredible Ruins | Edited by dittlelifferent