Tag: Nuclear
48 cursed places found
Magadan
gulag sites and ghost towns - Amongst the most exotic destinations it is (just about) possible to travel to as a tourist β far out in Asian Russia , in...
Kozloduy nuclear power plant
A large nuclear power station in Bulgaria β and until a few years ago one of the potentially most dangerous nuclear installations in the world.
Trinity
It was here, in the middle of the desert of the White Sands range in southern New Mexico, USA , that the first ever atomic bomb was detonated β in a test...
Ligatne Soviet bunker
A marvellous Cold War relic from the Soviet era in Latvia β a formerly secret government bunker from where the Soviet administrative affairs were supposed...
Takakanonuma Greenland
Takakonuma Greenland (Japanese: ι«εζ²Όγ°γͺγΌγ³γ©γ³γ, Hepburn: Takakonuma GurΔ«nrando) was a Amusement park near Date, Fukushima, Japan.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
A harbour town on the east coast of Nova Scotia, Canada , whose maritime heritage includes a couple of particularly dark ones.
Los Alamos
Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos Los Alamos is the place where the USA 's very first nuclear weapons were developed in the Manhattan Project .
Murmansk
A city in the Arctic north-west of Russia , close to the Barents Sea and the easternmost part of Norway .
Greenbrier
The Greenbrier nuclear bunker, West Virginia The formerly secret location of a nuclear bunker that was to house the USA 's Congress if World War Three had...
Harnekop nuclear bunker
Lost places: Harnekop nuclear bunker [ ] UPDATE: sadly, this place has now closed down, since it passed into new hands.
Kurchatov
Kazakhstan - darkometer rating : formerly 8 - now possibly no more than 5 or 6 ...
Slavutych Museum
( ) ---------------------------- UPDATE 2 March 2022: due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, this site will be out of tourism reach for some time to come.
Titan Missile Museum
Titan Missile Silo Museum The only surviving Titan II ICBM missile silo open to the public, complete with a deactivated missile, its launch control centre...
RAF Shipton
Royal Air Force Shipton (more commonly known as RAF Shipton) was a First World War era airfield located north of the village of Shipton-by-Beningbrough,...
Scotland's secret bunker
Scotland's Secret Nuclear Bunker A no longer quite so secret former government nuclear bunker in Scotland, Great Britain , that has been opened to the...
Marienthal government bunker
( for speakers of German) A part of a formerly huge underground nuclear bunker at Ahrweiler and Marienthal near Bonn that was to serve as the emergency...
Montebello Islands
The site in Australia where the first British atomic bomb was detonated on 3 October 1952, making the UK the third country to enter the circle of nuclear...
In Ekker and Reggane
The two nuclear testing grounds that France used in the Sahara desert in Algeria for its first atomic bombs in the 1960s.
The Polygon, Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, Kazakhstan
The Polygon, Semipalatinsk test site - darkometer rating : formerly 10 - (see Top-20 list ) - but no probably only 6 or 7 ----------------------------...
Sellafield
( in the past, now perhaps only or ) NOTE: this chapter is about the Sellafield site as such and in particular about its old/former visitor centre.
Hiroshima
(cf. Top 20 dark tourism destinations ) A city in Japan β and the site of one of the deadliest catastrophes in human history, namely the first use of an...
Zorita Nuclear Power Plant Village
The original project for this first Nuclear Power Plant that UniΓ³n ElΓ©ctrica MadrileΓ±a is building in Zorita (Guadalajara) was based on a very compact...
Harrisburg Three Mile Island nuclear plant
Harrisburg, Three Mile Island NPP The site of the potentially worst nuclear power station accident before Chernobyl .
Rainbow Warrior wreck
The story sounded too James-Bondsy to be believable at the time but it really happened: in 1985, the French were preparing for nuclear testing at their...
Semey (Semipalatinsk)
A city in the east of Kazakhstan , whose old name of Semipalatinsk is forever associated with the Soviet -era nuclear test site ( Polygon ).
Dounreay exhibition, Thurso
Dounreay exhibition at Caithness Horizons, Thurso UPDATE October 2021: apparently this place is set to reopen in November under a new name: "North Coast...
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo The capital city of Japan and one of the largest conurbations in the world.
NTS - Nevada Test Site
NTS (Nevada Test Site) The military area where the USA conducted the majority of its nuclear tests (though not the first one, which was at Trinity , nor...
Nuclear Museum Albuquerque
National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, Albuquerque, New Mexico As you will probably have guessed from the name, this is the USA 's main museum...
Forsmark nuclear power station
Sweden Sweden is one of the most ardent advocates of the use of nuclear power (while at the same time vehemently critical of nuclear arms).
Kelvedon Hatch secret nuclear bunker
A former Cold War government nuclear bunker in Great Britain , and now privately owned and accessible as a kind of eccentric (if somewhat scruffy) museum.
Balaklava
UPDATE 2018: Well, Russian-annexed Crimea, and hence Balaklava, are now definitely part of Russia again.
industrial Workers Museum, Vemork
Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum, Vemork This site at a disused hydroelectric power station is not only one of Norway 's most significant industrial...
Story of Berlin
"The Story of Berlin" experience & nuclear bunker --------------------- UPDATE: this site is currently closed for substantial reconstruction.
U-434 submarine
Hamburg A Russian submarine, used by the Soviet navy during the Cold War on spying missions, now permanently moored as a floating museum in the harbour of...
Cold War Museum REGAN Vest
A unique sight in Denmark , the former nuclear bunker for the Danish government (and the monarch!) from the Cold War era.
Chagan
A former long-range heavy bomber airbase and now ghost town in east Kazakhstan located en route between Semey and Kurchatov and well worth having a good...
Sainte-Bernadette-du-Banlay Chruch
Designed between 1963 and 1966, the Church of Sainte-Bernadette du Banlay in Nevers is the materialization of the crossing over of two lines of research:...
Duga
( ) UPDATE March 2022: due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, this place, is currently inaccessible for regular tourists.
Semey Anatomical Museum
Semey University Anatomical Museum [ - darkometer rating : formerly 10 - ] UPDATE: this museum is no longer accessible to tourists!
Hack Green nuclear bunker
Hack Green secret nuclear bunker A former secret nuclear government bunker in the middle of Cheshire, Great Britain .
Museum of the Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kurchatov
Museum of the Semipalatinsk Test Site [ ] ---------------- UPDATE 2025: this museum has for a good few years now no longer been accessible to foreign...
Atomic Testing Museum
Las Vegas As the name spells out: a museum, located in Las Vegas, USA , that is devoted to the rather exotic single topic of nuclear weapon testing ,...
Sonnenberg Bunker
This is one of the worldβs largest public fallout shelters from the Cold-War era, located in the city of Lucerne, Switzerland .
Metsamor
Armenia - Metsamor is home to Armenia 's infamous nuclear power plant of the same name β reputedly one of the most dangerous such plants in the world.
Hospital in the Rock
& Nuclear Bunker - A labyrinthine system of tunnels inside Buda Castle Hill in Hungary βs capital city Budapest that was turned into a bombproof hospital...
Aeroseum
A unique aviation museum near GΓΆteborg (Gothenburg), Sweden , housed in a former air force base in an underground hangar hewn into the rocks of a mountain...
National Museum of Australia
An eminent museum, opened in 2001, in Australia βs capital city Canberra β and one of the cityβs principal national treasures.