These Abandoned Military Sites Are Incredible (14 pics)

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Balaklava Submarine BaseBlack Sea base for submarines also housed a series of tunnels that reached into the mountains Top Secret Location run by the Soviet Union

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Devil's Slide Bunkers on the coast of San Mateo County in California were high tech for the late 1930s concrete and steel observation pillboxes. The site was sold to a private owner in 1983.

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Fort Ord 80 miles south of San Francisco, was used primarily as a training center for U.S. Army Olympic-size swimming pool established in 1917 closed 1994

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Fort Tilden established in 1917 in Queens pointed its cannons toward the sea to protect New York. During World War II but was not needed, decommishioned 1974

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Greenbrier Bunker secret location built to house Congress in the event of a nuclear warcompleted in 1961 and maintained by government employees working undercover as Forsythe Associates

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Hexagonal structure in the middle of the Patapsco River south of Baltimore was built from 1848 to 1850

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Johnston Atoll Now a National Wildlife Refuge deep in the Pacific over 800,000 square miles of ocean1926 nuclear testing from 1958 to 1975

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Maunsell Sea FortsThames and Mersey estuaries were built to protect England from German submarines decommissioned in the 1950s

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Nekoma Mickelsen Safeguard Complex ND-radar system intended to find and destroy missiles launched at the U.S.didn't even stay in service for an entire year. The complex was deactivated on Feb. 10, 1976

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RAF Stenigot Built for crazy long-range radar during World War II Lincolnshire England

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Saint Nazaire Locks France Fortified locks built for German submarine protection make for some intriguing abandoned sites

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The Eight Blockhouse AntiAircraft Flak Towers in Berlin-Vienna and Hamburg Germany WWII

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Titan I Missile Complex Eastern Washington dive 155 feet below the ground and you'd find three 1960s-built silos that once housed nuclear-tipped Titan I rockets