20 Forbidden Places

[Falconer]

http://burstdaily.com/a/news/20-forbidd ... even-want/

Imagine a Call of Cthulhu campaign stringing these together.

[Philotomy Jurament]

Heck, just using one of those would be awesome. A Delta Green op in that Russian Metro-2 site would be cool.

[thedungeondelver]

The Safeguard base in South Dakota is on my top ten abandoned places to visit.

Briefly, an anti-ballistic missile base was to be constructed in the middle of the US to defend missile fields against Soviet attack; it would have had batteries of mach 4+ Sprint SAMs, a gigantic phased radar array placed on a massive concrete pyramid (I mean the thing is frigging gigantic), etc.

Three problems happened though: one, it had huge budget overruns and was years late becoming active. Two, the Soviets were afraid our ABM systems would work and render their nukes impotent and demanded they be put on Arms Reduction lists (in spite of building their own networks around Moscow. Good for thee but not for me, eh, comrade?). Three, after building the first one, years of theory and study suggested that the system wouldn't work: EMP and X-ray pindown would keep the missiles (the defensive batteries) from working; they'd fly at mach-4 through clouds of radioactive debris put up by high altitude airbursts and probably malfunction.

Still, the base was build, manned, and brought online and operated successfully for...

...one day.

That's right. They stood alert watch for 24 hours, then Nixon signed legislation deactivating and defunding the whole project.

All that's left now is a massive concrete pyramidal bunker.

And I wanna go inside!