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Mauthausen Memorial.

Marbach, Austria

Mauthausen Memorial

The site of Austria's biggest concentration camp now honors its victims.

Denkzeichen Georg Elser.

Berlin, Germany

Denkzeichen Georg Elser

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

The wreck oof <em>H.L. Hunley</em>, suspended from a crane during its recovery from Charleston Harbor, August 8, 2000.

military history

Scientists Decode the Wreck of H.L. Hunley

Solving the century-old mystery of what killed the Confederate submarine's crew.

Natasha Frost August 24, 2017

Tatyana Markus memorial

Tatyana Markus Memorial

A tribute to a Ukrainian heroine who went undercover and killed several Nazi operatives.

Jihad Lamp, Fort Polk, Louisiana.

These Simulated War-Zone Villages Train U.S. Soldiers for Deployment

Pretend streets, fake wounds, and actors playing snipers all add to the immersive experience.

Eve Kahn August 23, 2017

Stjepan Filipović Monument.

Valjevo, Serbia

Stjepan Filipović Monument

A tribute to a man who defied the Nazis until his last breath.

The Warsaw Uprising Monument.

Warsaw Uprising Monument

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

A weird wartime target.

Linby Docks

A blunder resulted in these charming stone-lined streams becoming the target of a Nazi bombing.

The parking lot and entrance.

Portland, Oregon

Kelly Butte Civil Defense Center

Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.

Heligoland (foreground) and Düne beyond.

Heligoland, Germany

Heligoland

This strategic isle was once swapped between empires and almost entirely destroyed in a bomb explosion.

View of the chapel and the Lake of Brennilis.

Saint-Rivoal, France

Mont Saint-Michel de Brasparts

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.

The head of Virgin Mary.

Nagasaki, Japan

Head of the Virgin Mary

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

Vintage aircraft from the Erickson Collection

Erickson Aircraft Collection

An old World War II hangar holds 20 vintage aircraft and the rare opportunity to take a ride in a 1940s warbird.

Museum exhibition and a clock that stopped when the bomb dropped.

Nagasaki, Japan

Atomic Bomb Medical Museum

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

Taco rice at Jack's Steak House in Naha, Okinawa

Taco Rice

This Okinawan specialty resembles a Japanese take on Taco Bell.

TEPCO workers overlook the Fukushima site in 2013.

A WWII Bomb Has Been Found at the Fukushima Nuclear Site

As if they didn't have enough to worry about.

Eric Grundhauser August 10, 2017

Rocket memorabilia outside the William Creek Hotel, Woomera.

Laidback Living on an Australian Rocket-Testing Range

The Woomera complex is the world's largest military land base. Perfect place for a cattle ranch.

Serena Solomon August 9, 2017

A U.S. Army Air Force De Havilland Canada Mosquito, flown in 1945.

Found: 20,000 World War Two Aircraft Blueprints

They might be used to rebuild and launch a Mosquito plane for the first time since 1949.

Natasha Frost August 9, 2017