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Herne Bay, England
Herne Bay Museum
Beachcombers have been populating this museum with artifacts ranging from prehistoric to barely historic since the 1930's.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Bradbury Science Museum
This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.
Brighton, England
The Chattri
This memorial to the thousands of Indian dead during WWI was callously used for target practice during WWII.
Munich, Germany
Weiße Rose Pavement Memorial
These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.
Aleutians West, Alaska
Kiska Island
The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.
Munich, Germany
Viscardigasse
Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.
Inyo County, California
Manzanar National Historic Site
The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."
Permanently Closed
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
G.I. Joe
A decorated war pigeon stands guard in eternal taxidermied rest at his alma mater.
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The Place Where World War II Never Ended
Honolulu, Hawaii
Corsair Plane Wreck Dive Site
This WWII plane died a quiet death, and is now a garden eel playground.
Koracica, Serbia
Kosmaj Monument
This spaceship-like Serbian monument reaches for the stars in celebration of the fallen fighters of fascism.
Malička, Croatia
Petrova Gora
This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.
Lviv, Ukraine
Citadel Inn
A fortress built to pacify local uprising that had a stint as a Nazi concentration camp before becoming a five-star hotel.
Lambholm, Scotland
The Italian Chapel
This tin chapel was built by POW's during World War II and is painted to look like something much more grand.
Sofia, Bulgaria
Monument to the Soviet Army
A Bulgarian monument to Russia's role in World War II is constantly being painted in pop culture protest.
Dover, England
Dover Castle
One of the few standing Roman lighthouses and a labyrinth of tunnels are a couple of the secrets at this historic castle.
Lahoisk District, Belarus
Khatyn Memorial Complex
A symbolic graveyard for the villages that perished during the Nazi invasion of Belarus.
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Five of the Greatest Art Saves of World War II
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