WWI

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

This memorial to the thousands of Indian dead during WWI was callously used for target practice during WWII.

An underground city of ancient quarry tunnels hid thousands of Allied soldiers in WWI.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.

A ship that lived many lives under many names is now known merely as the "Ghost Ship."

A statue in a Canadian zoo remembers the WWI origins of the beloved character Winnie-the-Pooh.

A patriotic medieval knight in driven-nail armor raised money for widows and orphans of WWI.

Site of the 1889 murder-suicide of crown prince Rudolf and his lover Mary Vetsera.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

The place where World War I began.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.