Weapons

The system of air guns are fired off remotely to scare any trespassing avians.

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.

The world's first military tank was designed in this English city amid the stalemate of WWI trench warfare.

The site of the little-known Pennsylvania battle that sparked the Seven Years' War.

A vast personal collection of World War II artifacts unearthed over many years by a father-son duo.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

The U.S. Air Force has an anti-satellite laser weapon.

The air force base preserves its scars from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.

This fortified sand barrier dividing a contested territory is the longest minefield in the world.

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.

The school tested mustard gas for the U.S. Army during World War I.