Hawthorne Ordnance Museum

Hawthorne, NV, is home to an army base focused on the development and use of high-tech munitions. The Hawthorne Ordnance Museum, located in town, features wonderfully-presented mockups of the sorts of munitions I've read about since childhood.

I missed business hours, so I had to be content with taking pictures outside.

Museum boosters sell engraved bricks to raise funds to support the museum, much in the manner that other non-profit organizations do. Nevertheless, it's strange. Here, you can buy bricks to memorialize weaponry that can pulverize other bricks into oblivion.