World War II

This lakeside bunker complex in Mamerki, Poland, housed the Supreme Military Command of Nazi Germany during World War II.

Soviet General Zhukov’s former home is a quiet spot amid the heavy traffic of Ulaanbaatar.

An extensive network of secret tunnels was created for the Nazi project "Riese."

Hungarian Jews were ghettoized during the Second World War, but little remains of the original wall that closed the Jewish people off from the rest of the city.

This elaborate stone bridge over the Neisse river has sat in pieces since 1945.

The oldest statue in the Netherlands has survived relocation, bombardment, and burial.

At night, this memorial illuminates a ghostly outline of a footbridge that connected two sections of the Warsaw Ghetto.

One of Bogdan Bogdanović's first spomeniks honors those who died during the People's Liberation Struggle in Macedonia.

A small World War II museum housed in what was once the largest navigation school in the United States.

A Latvian rescuer who saved countless lives during World War II.

The ruins of an early 1900s neo-Baroque mansion sit nestled in a local park in the Hungarian plains.

The original attack periscope from a 1940s navy submarine towers high at this memorial site.

A quasi-futuristic roof sits atop a medieval Bohemian monastery damaged during World War II.