Military in the United States

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

The wreckage of a World War II bomber is hidden high in the Colorado wilderness.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

Though nicknamed the “Russian Freighter,” this ship was actually sunk off the coast of Pensacola by the U.S. government in a top-secret operation.

A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.

The large rock formation where the Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa stood and encouraged his warriors during the Battle of Tippecanoe.

The only surviving piece of a submarine said to be the most decorated vessel in U.S. history.

This four-story steel sphere in Maryland was used to test biological weapons.

A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.

A rare surviving example of a pre-WWII Japanese garden, restored after years of neglect.