World War II

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

A blunder resulted in these charming stone-lined streams becoming the target of a Nazi bombing.

This strategic isle was once swapped between empires and almost entirely destroyed in a bomb explosion.

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

An old World War II hangar holds 20 vintage aircraft and the rare opportunity to take a ride in a 1940s warbird.

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

The only substantial part of Nazi Germany's formidable defensive line through Northern Italy that survives today, largely intact.

The obelisk honors the cyclist troops who were killed during World War I.

A tribute to the little-known group of women who were the first ever to fly aircraft in the U.S. military.

An eclectic sculpture park rises atop a giant pile of ashes in Sweden.

Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.

Canada’s surprisingly controversial monument to Dwight Eisenhower.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.