Military History

Though nicknamed the “Russian Freighter,” this ship was actually sunk off the coast of Pensacola by the U.S. government in a top-secret operation.

A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.

The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.

German and American troops joined forces to defend this fortress during the strangest battle of World War II.

The only surviving piece of a submarine said to be the most decorated vessel in U.S. history.

A small museum in the Bay of Pigs gives the Cuban perspective on the famously failed U.S. invasion.

This four-story steel sphere in Maryland was used to test biological weapons.

A former top secret military tunnel is now stuffed with snow and open year-round to skiers.

This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.

Now abandoned, the world's first torpedo factory is crumbling into the sea.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

A tiny church remembers the Polish cavalrymen who charged their way into a Napoleonic victory.

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.

Thousands of slain Soviet soldiers are buried within the shadow of this enormous obelisk.

The elaborate crypt where Peruvian heroes of the War of the Pacific were laid to rest.

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.