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Our next offbeat travel stop is the middle of the desert, Green Valley Arizona to be exact. The Titan Missle Museum in Green Valley, Arizona is the last of the 54 Titan Atomic bomb launching facilities left standing after the US and Russia signed a treaty to slow the arms race. The Green Valley facility can't launch nuculear weapons anymore... now it's just a museum dedicated to preserving the history of such facilities from the Cold War era. With a decommissioned Titan II loaded into a silo, visitors can get a good look at the giant weapon and realize where its name came from. After taking a look at it from the top, the tour group descends 55 steps into the former base, where visitors can get a sense of what working in a launch facility was like. With three ton blast doors, walls disconnected from the floors, and giant springs beneath the floor, everything in the facility reminds you of the very real danger that these terrifying weapons posed to the world. And the old fashioned, push button and rotary technology meant to launch the weapons makes you wonder how they would have launched these giant bombs with accuracy in a pre-digital world. The tour guide lets one of the visitors turn the launch key to get a feeling of the power the key held, but since the museums AV system is busted and the alarm bells and flashing lights no longer go off, the effect is a bit diminished these days. The tour ends with a view of the missle from below, and a message of “peace through deterrence” from your tour guide. And now the Museum offers Moonlight MADness tours, in which visitors can tour the facility on the Saturday night of the month nearest to a full moon, giving the sleeping giant missle an even eerier look. But looking at that monstrous bomb at any time of the day at The Titan Missle Museum is a humbling experience that will remind you of just how close we all came to using technology to end the world. I’m Liesel Hlista for TravelWishTV.com. Keep your browser pointed here for more amazing offbeat travel suggestions.