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Newly recruited members of the Women's Army Corps in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1942.
food

How the U.S. Army Botched Feeding Its Female Soldiers in WWII

Outcomes included weight gain, sexual harassment, and skipping meals.
Natasha Frost May 25, 2018
The members banking.
Weybridge, England

Brooklands Racetrack Remains

The world's first purpose-built motor racetrack was destroyed by the outbreak of two world wars.
New London, Connecticut

Annual Burning of Benedict Arnold

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.
A half-buried bottle of wine of the dead.
napoleon bonaparte

Unearthing Portugal's Wine of the Dead, a Relic From the Napoleonic Wars

The invasions led to an unexpected discovery.
Rafaela Ferraz May 23, 2018
The interior of this control tower was a mimic of an aircraft carrier ops room.
Crail, Scotland

Crail Airfield

Soviet intelligence had a keen interest in the Cold War linguistic school at this old Scottish airfield.
A piece of the Berlin Wall was installed next to the museum.
Fulton, Missouri

National Churchill Museum

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.
The memorial cemetery at the Jeju 4·3 Peace Park.
cemeteries

The Bloody Past of Korea’s ‘Honeymoon Island’

Reckoning with a dark legacy at a time of great change.
Erin Craig May 11, 2018
Dr. Sobi Maya Tamang with a patient in a remote village in the Himalayas.
medicine

The Doctor Making House Calls in the Himalayas

Dr. Sobi Maya Tamang makes the trek to care for aging Gurkhas, a group of Nepali soldiers recruited by the British Army.
Kira Zalan May 10, 2018
The memorial
Bainbridge Island, Washington

Japanese American Exclusion Memorial

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.
Bullet holes in the church.
Prague, Czechia

The Heydrich Terror Memorial

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.
An exposed boiler of the San Pablo.
Pensacola, Florida

San Pablo Shipwreck

Though nicknamed the “Russian Freighter,” this ship was actually sunk off the coast of Pensacola by the U.S. government in a top-secret operation.
The submarine watchtower in Ormond Beach.
Ormond Beach, Florida

Ormond Beach Watchtower

A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.
The Dummett Plantation ruins.
Ormond Beach, Florida

Dummett Sugar Mill Ruins

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.
Oriskany two years after sinking.
Pensacola, Florida

USS Oriskany

The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.
Pensacola, Florida

Fort Barrancas

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.
Swedish meatballs have a surprising origin story.
food

The Turkish Roots of Swedish Meatballs

Thank the warlike King Charles XII for your IKEA lunch.
Anne Ewbank May 2, 2018
Pensionnaire Alex has been working in the vines since his arrival 22 years ago.
food

The Vineyard Where Retired French Soldiers Make Wine

In Provence, Foreign Legion veterans report for duty among the vines.
Alexis Steinman May 2, 2018
Prophet's Rock
West Lafayette, Indiana

Prophet's Rock

The large rock formation where the Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa stood and encouraged his warriors during the Battle of Tippecanoe.