WWI

A Victorian Fort built into the chalky cliffs that overlook the English Channel.

The elegant manor house where Kaiser Wilhelm II lived in exile after World War I.

A monument to the thousands of Canadian soldiers who died capturing the French ridge during World War I.

The final resting place of soldiers who fell during the First and Second World Wars.

This haunting sculpture was created as a statement on the mechanized warfare of the First World War.

This old brick building has held everyone from prisoners of war to freedom fighters during its turbulent history.

A small cemetery on a hill overlooking Mbala contains the history of the town's colonial past.

The ruins of a massive World War I fort overlook the border between Zambia and Tanzania.

The remains of 50,000 World War I soldiers rest under a towering arch overlooking the Alpine battlefields.

A forest park outside Tallinn full of architectural and artistic curiosities.

This gigantic monument hidden in the woods was built to thank the Dutch for sheltering Belgian refugees during World War I.

A memorial in the middle of a roundabout marks the spot where German forces formally surrendered, finally ending World War I in Africa.

A stone memorial marks the spot where the fighting of World War I finally ceased—three days after the armistice was signed in Europe.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

The world's first purpose-built motor racetrack was destroyed by the outbreak of two world wars.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

The world's oldest operational public pier railway has shuttled seagoing commuters from ship to shore since 1909.