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Kuala Klawang, Malaysia

B-24 Liberator Wreck at Gunung Telapak Buruk

The remains of this RAF plane and its crew were lost for decades, nearly engulfed by the Malaysian jungle.
Three camoufleurs in the Women’s Reserve Camouflage Corps make one woman disappear into the forest floor.
naval history

Why Women Pretended to Be Creepy Rocks and Trees in NYC Parks During WWI

Can you find the camouflaged women hiding in these photos?
Lauren Young October 6, 2016
The abandoned PACBAR III site
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands

Abandoned Pacific Barrier Radar III

This abandoned radar site is slowly being taken back by the jungle, its mission cut short by the end of the Cold War.
School house
Wareham, England

Tyneham Ghost Village

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.
Kanchanaburi, Thailand

Death Railway Bridge

This bridge made famous in a novel and on-screen wasn't actually built over the river Kwai.
Freiheitsglocke
Berlin, Germany

Freedom Bell

A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.
Gesundbrunnen Bunker - Entrance from inside
Berlin, Germany

Berliner Unterwelten (Subterranean Berlin)

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.
cold war

Watch a Cold War Era Video That Advises You How to Survive a Nuclear Attack

You are the target.
Mariana Zapata September 29, 2016
nazis

Hitler Probably Spent WWII High on Cocaine and Oxycodone

How the Nazis waged war with the help of illegal drugs.
Erik Shilling September 26, 2016
food

How to Shop for the Revolutionary War

A cottage industry of craftspeople is dedicated to making accurate reproductions of objects used in 18th-century life.
Sarah Laskow September 21, 2016
Anchorage Island, at the north tip of the atoll.
Cook Islands

Suwarrow Atoll

A desert island with both a buried treasure and a famous castaway.
The birthplace of Dada.
Zurich, Switzerland

Cabaret Voltaire: the Dada House

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.
Fort Robinson State Park
Harrison, Nebraska

Fort Robinson State Park

Site of the 1879 Cheyenne Outbreak and the site where famed Sioux chief Crazy Horse met his fate.
Utopia College in Eureka, Kansas. Later renamed Midwest Institute.
Eureka, Kansas

Utopia College

A college in rural Kansas founded to prepare the country for an impending World War III.
atom bombs

Watch Five Alarmingly Calm Men Stand Under an Exploding Atomic Bomb

In 1957 a group of soldiers watched an atom bomb go off directly above their heads.
Molly McBride Jacobson September 13, 2016
robots

The Future of Animatronics, From Disney to the U.S. Military

The world's leading animatronics company is bringing us closer to an automated future.
Eric Grundhauser September 9, 2016
Muchołapka, or "Hitler's Stonehenge".
Poland

Muchołapka

A mysterious structure left behind on the Polish mountainside, sometimes called "Hitler's Stonehenge".
spies

The Brilliant MI6 Spy Who Perfected the Art of the 'Honey Trap'

During WWII, Betty Pack used seduction to acquire enemy naval codes.
Hadley Meares September 8, 2016