Lawrence-Livermore National Laboratory

Us versus Them!

In 1949, the Soviet Union successfully detonated its first nuclear weapon. American Physicists Ernest O. Lawrence and Edward Teller were both affiliated with the Manhattan Project and supported the creation of a second laboratory to facilitate the ...

House at Otowi Bridge

Follow the original train tracks out of Los Alamos, New Mexico to find the house at Otowi Bridge.

Owned by Edith Warner, the house served as the only place the community of scientists could get away to. Los Alamos, where ...

Battle of Santa Rosa Island

In the early morning hours of October 9th, 1861, 1,200 confederate soldiers made their way across Pensacola Bay intent on capturing Union held Fort Pickens on the Western tip of Santa Rosa Island. This attack marked a culmination of tensions ...

Chinatown

San Francisco's Chinatown is the one of the largest Chinese communities outside of China itself, and one of the very first of its kind established in North America. During the mid-19th Century, economic and political hardships in China drove many ...

Yosemite National Park

Renowned for its natural beauty, California's Yosemite Valley holds the distinction of being the first tract of land set aside by any government for non-utilitarian purposes. Glacial activity formed the valley's unique appearance over the course of millions of years, ...

National Historic Landmark - Hoover Dam

Towering 726 feet above the Colorado River, the Hoover Dam is an engineering marvel. Its namesake, President Herbert Hoover, described the dam as "the greatest engineering work of its character ever attempted by the hand of man."

First conceived in the ...

Death Valley National Park

Death Valley, located within the Mojave Desert, boasts the distinction of being the lowest and hottest spot in the United States. From the Panamint and Armargosa mountain ranges, Death Valley descends to its lowest point, 282 feet below sea level, ...

Sedan Crater

Between 1952 and 1992, the United States tested nearly 1,000 nuclear devices in the desert less than 100 miles from the Las Vegas strip. Referred to as the Nevada Test Site, the area's isolation fit the needs for testing America's ...

Frenchman Flat

As part of the Nevada Test Site, Frenchman Flat played a vital role in the development and maintenance of the Cold War nuclear arsenal.

Located in the desert sixty-five miles northwest of Las Vegas, the Flat was a test site for ...

Navajo Nation

According to the 1868 U.S.-Navajo Treaty, the Navajo Nation comprises 27,000 square miles of reservation branching into the states of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. The area is larger than ten of the fifty states in America, and today contains ...