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Exterior of the hotel
La Falda, Argentina

Hotel Edén

This magnificent abandoned hotel has long been haunted by its Nazi past.
Installation shots from inside the exhibition.
museums and collections

The Secret London Exhibition for Spies' Eyes Only

During World War II, the Natural History Museum showcased tools for sabotage.
Carianne Whitworth August 28, 2018
The B-1 Flat Top at the American Museum of Science and Energy.
Oak Ridge, Tennessee

B-1 Flat Top in Oak Ridge

One of the Cemestos prefab homes built to secretly house thousands of Manhattan Project workers.
A policeman confiscates goods in 1949.
food

The Illegal Ramen Vendors of Postwar Tokyo

Black markets and American wheat imports popularized ramen.
Hunter Lu August 24, 2018
A plaque commemorating what Belfast endured during the war.
Belfast, Northern Ireland

Telegraph Building Belfast Blitz Scars

A small plaque highlights the damage caused by German air raids during World War II.
The debris of the 1943 crash.
Saint-Donat-de-Montcalm, Québec

Liberator III Crash Site

The remains of the worst military aviation accident in Canada's history.
Frankfurt, Germany

IG Farben Haus

From Nazi chemicals to the CIA, this architectural marvel has played a fascinating role in German history.
The letters had been hidden beneath the gorse.
military history

Ireland's Coast Has Giant, Hidden Signs Telling Pilots Where They Are

A wildfire has just uncovered one of these "Éire" signs from World War II.
Sarah Laskow August 6, 2018
Signs to the offices that were once in the tunnels.
London, England

Down Street Underground Station

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.
The monument commemorating the driving-side switch on July 30, 1978.
monuments

40 Years Ago, Okinawans Returned to Driving on the Left

A stone monument marks this symbolic last moment of post-WWII repatriation.
Allan Richarz July 30, 2018
Tilbury Fort drawbridges.
Tilbury, England

Tilbury Fort

This star-shaped artillery fort protected the mouth of the Thames from the 16th century to the Second World War.
Exhibit in the museum.
Salina, Utah

CCC & POW Camp

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.
Topaz Museum in Delta, Utah.
Delta, Utah

Topaz Museum

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.
Pulpit Rock Tower
Rye, New Hampshire

Pulpit Rock Tower

The only one of New Hampshire's original 14 World War II watchtowers to survive in near-original condition.
Bevin Boys Memorial.
Burton-on-Trent, England

Bevin Boys Memorial

A long-overdue monument to the forgotten British men drafted into the coal mines during World War II.
Scars of shellfire.
La Ferté-sur-Chiers, France

Ouvrage La Ferté

This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.
Tomb of Nie Er.
Kunming, China

Tomb of Nie Er

The memorial gravesite of the young composer of China's national anthem.
Rome, Italy

Stumbling Stones of Rome

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.