WWI

A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.

The 16th-century church was kept in its ruined state as a reminder of the casualties of World War I.

This unlikely memorial honors the Canadian and Portuguese laborers who felled trees for the Allies in World War I.

This memorial honors the first British soldier killed by enemy action on home soil during World War I.

These ancient sunken lanes were naturally tunneled into the soft ground by countless footsteps.

A nun spent 16 years painting the stunning Celtic mural that covers the interior of this WWI memorial.

The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.

The secluded site of a 1943 plane crash and amazing rescue is only accessible by hiking through the woods.

All that remains of the fishing-vessel-turned-warship is its weathered hull.

The Belgian library displays burned books that were salvaged from the fires of both world wars.

The world's first military tank was designed in this English city amid the stalemate of WWI trench warfare.

American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

A climbing route in the mountains of Italy’s Dolomites, built for soldiers during World War I.