Military in England

This foreboding medieval castle was twice besieged by barons rebelling against the English king.

An impressive armored bronze effigy marks the tomb of one of the medieval era's greatest warriors.

This World War II airfield is the last place the bandleader performed before he disappeared.

The final resting place of hundreds of Polish airmen who died fighting the Nazis in Britain.

An enigmatic sculpture depicts a ruined home with debris stretching for over half a mile along the river.

A memorial to American oil drillers who volunteered to travel secretly to England in 1943 and work in the U.K.'s only oil field.

An abandoned World War II tank left to rust in the downland.

The English Civil War began right here in 1642.

These medieval carvings bear scars left by Parliamentarian troops during the English Civil War.

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

This star-shaped artillery fort protected the mouth of the Thames from the 16th century to the Second World War.

This abandoned gun tower was built to defend the River Thames from a French naval attack.

This large torch on the Hove coastline helped Sir Francis Drake defend England from the Spanish fleet.

A long-overdue monument to the forgotten British men drafted into the coal mines during World War II.

In an isolated field near a dilapidated barn stands this chilling portrayal of the plight of the Nuba peoples of Sudan.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.