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Monument to the Bombardment of Ellwood in Goleta, California.
Goleta, California

Monument to the Bombardment of Ellwood

The first attack on the continental U.S. during WWII occurred off the coast of a quiet California golf course.
Permanently Closed
The 300-year-old tree.
Arbutus, Maryland

The Arbutus Oak

The 320-year-old tree that greeted General Lafayette and rerouted an interstate highway.
Dodgeville, Wisconsin

C-97 Stratofreighter at the Don Q Inn

One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.
A helmet from the 1961 Mercury spacesuit. The space helmet wouldn't be the same had it not been for Alice King Chatham's contributions.
nasa

The Female Space Sculptor Who Designed the Earliest Space and Aviation Helmets

Alice King Chatham's name is attached to some of the world's most pivotal aviation and space experiments.
Lauren Young January 18, 2017
Kudirkos Naumiestis, Lithuania

The Extinct Town of Schirwindt

You would never guess that before World War II this lonely field was a bustling German city.
A pilot whale whistle, visualized.
military history

In the 1970s, the U.S. Navy Tried to Talk Like Whales

A recently declassified report reveals that Cold War submarines almost chirped and whistled.
Cara Giaimo January 17, 2017
Texas marker.
Cricqueville-en-Bessin, France

Texas Marker at Pointe Du Hoc Bunker

The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.
A nuclear-powered submarine conducting a emergency surfacing, 1978
science

How the Navy Tried to Turn Bioluminescence Against the Soviets

They spent decades on it.
Sarah Laskow January 13, 2017
Monument at Brazilian Cemetery of Pistoia
Pistoia, Italy

Brazilian Military Cemetery of Pistoia

A memorial to Brazil's little-known role in World War II.
Financial Tart.
food

The Meatless, Wheatless Meals of World War I America

Recipes got a lot more creative during the days of food rationing.
Lauren Young January 10, 2017
The Ferdinand Magellan Presidential Railcar at the Gold Coast Railroad Museum, Miami, 2007.
Miami, Florida

Ferdinand Magellan Presidential Railcar

With nickel-steel armor and three-inch thick bullet resistant windows, FDR's train was a rolling fortress.
The 2016 harvest for the Kreuzberg vineyard amounts to 27 crates in total.
cold war

Berlin’s Secret Cold War-Era Vineyard

This tiny, hidden vineyard planted at the birthplace of the first computer produces only 350 bottles of wine each year.
Jordan Todorov January 4, 2017
View of Pheasant Island from the Spanish side of the border
France / Spain

Pheasant Island

This tiny river island switches sovereignty every six months as part of a rare, centuries-old agreement.
Old swivel rails
Fort Washington, Maryland

Fort Washington

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.
A red-footed booby approaches the Baker Island shoreline, which sports a crumbling day beacon.
islands

The Last Place to Experience 2016 Will Be an Abandoned Island Full of Bird Poop

Baker Island, in the middle of the Pacific, is one of two islands in the world in time zone UTC-12:00.
Cara Giaimo December 29, 2016
The castle had strategic importance for centuries.
Walbrzych, Poland

Książ Castle

A fairytale Gothic castle steeped in Nazi treasure conspiracy theories.
Budapest, Hungary

Budapest Castle Hill Funicular

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.
Construction on December 5th, 1961
Washington, D.C.

'Cartwheel' Tower

Washington's top-secret Cold War-era doomsday communications tower is located in a small neighborhood park.