World War II

A memorial commemorating the place where Truman gave the order to deploy the first nuclear bombs on Japan.

The only United States mine for magnesium carbonate has been operating continuously since the 1930s.

This formerly-prosperous Silesian mining town was completely demolished in the late 1960s and early 1970s as an attempt to cover up a secret Soviet uranium mine.

The center of this Polish border town was so thoroughly wiped out in World War II that only the foundations remain.

This lakeside bunker complex in Mamerki, Poland, housed the Supreme Military Command of Nazi Germany during World War II.

Soviet General Zhukov’s former home is a quiet spot amid the heavy traffic of Ulaanbaatar.

An extensive network of secret tunnels was created for the Nazi project "Riese."

Hungarian Jews were ghettoized during the Second World War, but little remains of the original wall that closed the Jewish people off from the rest of the city.

This elaborate stone bridge over the Neisse river has sat in pieces since 1945.

The oldest statue in the Netherlands has survived relocation, bombardment, and burial.

At night, this memorial illuminates a ghostly outline of a footbridge that connected two sections of the Warsaw Ghetto.

One of Bogdan Bogdanović's first spomeniks honors those who died during the People's Liberation Struggle in Macedonia.

A small World War II museum housed in what was once the largest navigation school in the United States.

A Latvian rescuer who saved countless lives during World War II.