World War II

A seaside cemetery honors the Commonwealth soldiers and sailors that died in Sierra Leone during World War I and II.

World War II air raids over Bristol dislodged this fragment of tram line that ended up embedded in a churchyard.

This 19th-century church was built for Sicilian immigrants, survived World War II, and today stands on a landfill.

This memorial commemorates where a Japanese commander surrendered to Allied forces on September 3, 1945.

This modest site memorializes a World War II mission described without hyperbole as “the greatest raid of all.”

The gnarled remains of an exploded German bunker from World War II sit along a breathtaking fjord.

During World War II, over 13,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated in this camp in the Idaho desert.

This abandoned but well-preserved Prussian fortress sits abandoned in a Polish forest near the German border.

The world's largest collection of historic U.S. military naval vessels.

A helicopter memorial commemorating what was once the only way to access this West Berlin exclave.

This site was a school and a center of Japanese-American life before internment.

Home to a legend of the supernatural raccoon dog, a rare wooden structure of Edo, and witnesses of the Tokyo bombings.

This church commemorates a venerable, yet nigh-forgotten woman who dedicated her life to the poor in post-war Tokyo.

This historic hotel has hosted the likes of Babe Ruth, Jimmy Carter, and the Vanderbilts.

An underground city beneath Krakow's postwar socialist utopia.