Military

The 16th-century church was kept in its ruined state as a reminder of the casualties of World War I.

Captured in 1968, the Cold War spy ship is the only U.S. Navy vessel being held by a foreign government.

This vineyard was the site of the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade.

The now-overgrown beach resort was once frequented by Yugoslav military elite.

This unlikely memorial honors the Canadian and Portuguese laborers who felled trees for the Allies in World War I.

This statue honors the thousands of Allied avians that served and died for France during World War I.

This memorial honors the first British soldier killed by enemy action on home soil during World War I.

Three abandoned missile silos are hiding in plain sight behind a suburban development in Maryland.

One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.

These colossal desert barcodes have been fine-tuning spy satellites for decades.

A former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian War is now a secret graffiti art gallery.

The Forest Service's surprisingly sophisticated collection of wildfire prevention art features America's most beloved bear.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.