War History

The 400-year-old remains of the samurai invasion of Korea.

Though much of the castle was robbed of its stones, the underlying earthworks are among the best-preserved in England.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

The mile-long pier stretches from a ruined fortress out into the Baltic.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.

The rusted hull of a WWII German destroyer pokes above the surface in a Norwegian fjord.

The ruins of a 13th-century monastery that long served as a place of refuge from wars and raids.

A tiny church remembers the Polish cavalrymen who charged their way into a Napoleonic victory.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

Thousands of slain Soviet soldiers are buried within the shadow of this enormous obelisk.

A stone circle on the slopes of a Caribbean volcano commemorates the leader of an anti-slavery uprising.

The wartime boat shelter now doubles as an underground concert hall where musicians play on rafts along the waterway.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

The elaborate crypt where Peruvian heroes of the War of the Pacific were laid to rest.

After serving in Vietnam, Korea, and even a stint in the Turkish navy, the unique ship is now open as a museum.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.