Military

The giant figure on the back of this turtle-shaped temple actually hides a memorial pendulum.

Magnificent Roman ruins lie vulnerable to destruction on the edge of the Mediterranean.

Social outcasts and cannibalism in Stalin's Soviet Union.

This proud Teutonic warrior rises out of a German forest heralding a victory and measuring lightning.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

These impressively detailed battle scenes depict the violence and tragedy of war in miniature.

Ever loyal to Roma, the small village of Albe in the Abruzzo region carried on until an earthquake did it in.

This simple gravestone remembers a pig who single-hoofedly raised $19,000,000 for the Navy.

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

A desperate final message left by a POW on the run serves as a memorial for himself and the 97 that died with him.

Formerly abandoned underground complex to keep royals safe from a nuclear war that never came.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

Built to hold the worst of the worst of the Nazi war prisoners.

A military vehicle collection, showcasing how war transportation advanced from horse drawn artillery to self propelled cannons.

This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.

A monument to the military service of America's greatest traitor refuses to even name him.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

Rare signs of the former Soviet Union in the Caribbean, though not where you'd expect them.