Military

This former military airfield's claim to fame came from a lucky accident during the Second World War.

A rare example of the RAF’s flying spy taxi.

Alexander Milliner, a favorite of General Washington, is interred at Mt. Hope Cemetery along with 80 other Revolutionary War veterans.

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

A vast museum devoted to North Korea's victories against its imperialist enemies.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.

Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.

This poignant WWI memorial looks like a lighthouse 100 miles from the sea.

A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

In an arboretum with hundreds of memorials to the fallen, this one might be the most poignant.