Military

This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

A quartet of rusting satellite goliaths are all that remain of a communication network that protected Britain from German and Russian air strikes.

The final resting place for Bermuda's British military, including a man who died of sunstroke.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

This Croatian island is for sale but no one is buying due to the dozens of accused Nazi sympathizers who were massacred there after WWII.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

This WWII aircraft museum presents its wrecks like taxidermy, complete with recreations of the crash sites.

All that remains of one of the Civil War's more deadly POW camps is a simple flagstone.

This museum showcases the history and contributions of the U.S. Army to the medical industry, both on the battlefield and off.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

Visitors to this Belgium graveyard are greeted by the grieving stone parents of the young men lost to war.

This study room in the New York Public Library saw the creation of one of contemporary America's greatest traitors.

This collection of reclaimed landmines acts as both an exhibition of their deadly history and as a shelter for children affected by them.

Anyone wanting to know what a dwarven mine sounds like need only visit the tunnels of this New Zealand artillery compound.