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Camp Century
Secret American military base established in 1959, and abandoned in 1967. Nuclear reactor and a dieselpowered generator. The plan was to excavate 2.500 miles of tunnels in the snow, and be able to store and launch 600 nuclear missiles. The…
RAF Stenigot
RAF base built in 1938, and was a part of the “Chain Home Network” during the second world war. In the beginning the radar consisted of eight tower antennae. Four transmitters and four receivers. There were used to detect incoming…
Albanian Bunkers
Albania built approximately half a million bunkers between 1975 and 1989. The Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha feared that other countries wanted to invade Albania and overthrow him. He commanded that every municipality in the country should produce and build bunkers,…
Duga Radar
The Duga was a Soviet “Over the horizon” radar system, and was a part of the Soviet missile defence early warning system that operated from July 1976 to December 1989. The first signals (probably from a predecessor) were detected in…
Buzludzha
This monument was built on the site of a historic battle, where 30 Bulgarian rebels fought against 700 Ottoman troops on the 31st of juli 1868. The Bulgarian rebels lost, and only 4 of them survived the battle, but it…
Calico
Established in 1881. Largest silvermine in California, by the late 1800’s More than 500 mines, and a population of 3,500 people. In 1896 the government decided to regulate the price of silver, by introducing the “Silver Purchase Act”, witch made…
The forgotten tanks of Lesvos
The island of Lesvos is less than 10km from the Turkish main land, and the two countries have a long history full of conflicts. Several places along the island’s coast, tanks like this one can be found, dug halfway into…
