Transvaal Boer

Belgium's national heroine turned spy sacrificed her life to combat German occupation.

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

In the mid-1800s, the British military used this hilltop fort to train soldiers.

This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

The monument honors the mountaineers who were part of Europe’s best anti-Nazi forces.

It marks the spot where the high-ranking British officer died during the Falklands War.

One of the bloodiest and most important battles in Japanese history is recreated with kitschy concrete statues.

Taken as a war trophy in 1739, this Portuguese bell now hangs in an ancient Hindu temple.