Naval History

The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.

America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

The abandoned Bermudian home of a British naval leader is surrounded by crumbling sporting fields and the graves of convicts.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.

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

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

After mysteriously refusing to surrender at the end of World War II this sunken submarine was only salvaged in a search for Nazi gold.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

Formerly Yugoslavia's "forbidden island," this sleepy little city still holds the abandoned remains of military strongholds.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

The oldest Naval cemetery on the West Coast.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

This abandoned naval battery stood at the ready as recently as the 1980s.