War History

A rare World War II-era siren still survives in the southern suburbs of Manchester.

Discovered in a peat bog, these horned helms come from a thousand years before the Viking Age.

This bronze marker acknowledges an embarrassing royal blunder.

A telegraph station used to send information from Cuba to the U.S. during the Spanish-American War.

The interior of this church has been turned into a memorial to locals who died in Croatia's Homeland War.

World War II air raids over Bristol dislodged this fragment of tram line that ended up embedded in a churchyard.

This memorial commemorates where a Japanese commander surrendered to Allied forces on September 3, 1945.

This man's death led (indirectly) to Vermont's independence in 1777.

A small museum celebrating the life of the first Black four-star general in Air Force history.

A Grand Dame of the vaudeville circuit restored to its former glory.

This modest site memorializes a World War II mission described without hyperbole as “the greatest raid of all.”

While it would not look out of place among Serbian spomeniks, this massive Bulgarian monument commemorates one of their defeats.

The only 'battle' in the Toledo War between Michigan and Ohio set the stage for a persistent state rivalry.

This American Civil War-era fort still stands near the border between Washington, D.C. and Maryland.

During World War II, over 13,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated in this camp in the Idaho desert.

A famed admiral left behind this 17th-century house key when he joined the British Navy.

The world's largest collection of historic U.S. military naval vessels.