Military

Inside the world's largest seed bank, WWII botanists elected to starve to death rather than compromise their collection.

This tiny cafe is one of the last meeting places of its kind, allowing revolutionaries a place to plot.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

In the midst of a living monument to Soviet social engineering, Polish Catholics built this church by hand.

Former military fort and site of untold horrors during WWII, this island may become the Adriatic's next luxury resort.

Now a memorial, this factory was once used as a concentration camp for artists by the Vichy government.

Thanks to this small string of islands World War II still hasn't officially ended between Russia and Japan.

A giant bisected onion dome remembers the Iraqis who died in the Iran-Iraq War.

The haunting concrete remains of a Nazi pebble crusher can still be found in this small French commune.

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.