Touch a Tomahawk missile or mug with a 'Fat Man' (atomic bomb, that is) at this museum on a classified US Navy base. The weapons collection will likely fascinate technology, flight, history and military buffs – and perhaps even utter pacifists. Until its relocation to a new building that's under construction at 130 E Las Flores in downtown Ridgecrest, access is restricted to US citizens; bring driver's license and proof of car insurance and prepare to spend two hours for clearance.
US Naval Museum of Armament & Technology
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What do the movies Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek V: the Final Frontier and Planet of the Apes have in common? They were all filmed at Trona Pinnacles,…
19.72 MILES
About 20 miles south of Ridgecrest, off US Hwy 395, Randsburg is a 'living ghost town,' an abandoned and now (somewhat) reinhabited gold-mining town circa…