Military History

A decorated war pigeon stands guard in eternal taxidermied rest at his alma mater.

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

This stream-carved gorge has inspired poets, hidden smugglers, and trained soldiers, all without losing its beauty.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

On this Puerto Rican island, many abandoned naval ammunition bunkers sit open while a few have been padlocked by locals as personal storage.

A colossal sculptural lion built by the same man who designed the Statue of Liberty.

This narrow path was cut right into a French mountainside to feed the country's early naval expansion.

One of the few standing Roman lighthouses and a labyrinth of tunnels are a couple of the secrets at this historic castle.

A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”

From prostitutes to soldiers to business men, the dead in this graveyard are a microcosm of Singapore's history with Japan.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

A bloody history is captured in this former prison turned museum.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

Rumor had it that these concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland helped align spy satellites. (They didn’t.)

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

A symbolic graveyard for the villages that perished during the Nazi invasion of Belarus.