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Road sign along Highway 80.

'Highway of Death'

This road earned its macabre nickname after hundreds of Iraqi troops died along it in 1991.

The bank on Failaka Island.

Failaka Island

Wander among the ghostly ruins of an island where civilization flourished for thousands of years.

George Street entrance to the Guardian Telephone Exchange.

Manchester, England

Guardian Telephone Exchange Tunnels

This nondescript building hides an entrance to an underground nuclear tunnel system.

Wrocław, Poland

The Train to Heaven

A 90-ton, gravity-defiant steam locomotive shoots for the skies in this bizarrely beautiful public artwork.

Damage from a tank shell.

Berlin, Germany

Stadtbahn Viaduct World War II Damage

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

Grahovo Memorial Park.

Grahovo, Montenegro

Grahovo Memorial Park

This memorial to local World War II heroes is slowly being reclaimed by nature.

Wojtek the Soldier Bear, Duns.

Scottish Borders Wojtek the Soldier Bear

The beloved war-time celebrity spent time in the area before retiring to the Edinburgh Zoo.

Bluie East Two.

Ikateq, Greenland

Bluie East Two

A surprisingly beautiful abandoned World War II military base in East Greenland.

Southampton, England

The Wool House

This 700-year-old storehouse was a POW jail, aviation workshop, and Titanic memorial before becoming a brewpub.

This could all be yours.

For Sale: An Abandoned, Decaying Fort on a Private Island

Won't someone, anyone, buy Fort Montgomery?

Jessica Leigh Hester April 8, 2019

London, England

Shield of Parade

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

Baile Hill.

Baile Hill

The little-known second castle that William the Conqueror built in York.

Balcony under the red star.

Dolinka, Kazakhstan

KarLag Memorial Museum

A sober museum housed in the original administrative building of one of Stalin's largest gulags.

Washington, D.C.'s "Spirit of American Youth."

Washington, D.C.

'Spirit of American Youth' Statue

A replica of the famous memorial statue at the Normandy American Cemetery hides in an office building in downtown D.C.

Bodiam Castle.

Bodiam, England

Bodiam Castle

A beautiful ruin of a 14th-century Plantagenet castle built by a medieval mercenary.

New Orleans, Louisiana

Civil Defense Control Center

An abandoned underground bunker not far from downtown New Orleans.

100 years later, the penny still bears its battle scars.

For Sale: A Penny That Stopped a Bullet and Saved a Life

It's not the only everyday object to have done so on the battlefield.

Matthew Taub March 21, 2019

Statue of Wojtek the soldier bear in Jordan Park.

Wojtek the Soldier Bear Statue

A memorial to the beloved brown bear that served in the Polish army during World War II.