World War II

Soviet intelligence had a keen interest in the Cold War linguistic school at this old Scottish airfield.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.

A secret passageway from World War II is now a quirky pedestrian shortcut.

German and American troops joined forces to defend this fortress during the strangest battle of World War II.

An army of sleeping knights sculpted by a self-taught local artist beautifully depict an old Czech legend.

A rare surviving example of a pre-WWII Japanese garden, restored after years of neglect.

A centuries-old forgotten underworld lies beneath Malta.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

The bombed out remains of the old church were kept intact next to the new one, as a reminder of the futility of war.

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

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