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Budapest, Hungary
Ruins of the Ferenc JĂ³zsef Bridge
When the water level in the Danube in central Budapest is low enough, there is a secret site telling the history of one of the most iconic bridges of the city.
Hillend, Wales
Rhossili Down Radar Station
Overlooking beautiful Rhossili Bay are the remnants of a former World War II radar station.
Willebroek, Belgium
Fort Breendonk
Walk through a well-preserved World War II Nazi prison and transit camp.
England
Southwick House
This was Allied HQ during D-Day! Eisenhower was there and you can visit the ACTUAL MAP he looked at on that day.
Butner, North Carolina
Camp Butner Museum
The museum is located in one of the two remaining military gymnasiums left in the United States.
Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer, France
Bunker Tombé
Impressive spectacle of how a bunker can land on a beach and resist mother nature for the years that have passed since WWII.
Mayenne, France
Mac Racken Bridge
This 19th-century stone bridge in Mayenne was renamed after an American soldier who died defusing explosives placed under it, saving it from destruction during the town’s liberation in August 1944.
Box Hill, Australia
Box Hill War Memorial
This marble bugler pays a special tribute to local lives lost in World War I
Whitby, Ontario
Camp X Memorial
Where spies were trained, the Cold War found its first whistleblower, and James Bond was born.
Northwest Territories
Canol Heritage Trail
An abandoned WWII-era U.S. Army megaproject, turned hiking trail in the remote Canadian subarctic.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Schaduwkade
A series of markers along one side of an Amsterdam canal memorialize the Jewish residents from the other side who died in the Holocaust.
Kolonia, Micronesia
Japanese Tank Graveyard
A lineup of a dozen or so Japanese light tanks from WWII.
Warsaw, Poland
Elektrownia Powiśle
One of Warsaw's coolest malls was once a center for anti-Nazi resistance activity.
Warsaw, Poland
Cemetery-Monument in Wawer
A symbolic cemetery in a suburban square marks the birthplace of Poland's WWII resistance movement.
Clarksville, Indiana
Rosie the Riveter Statue
The Rosie the Riveter statue in Clarksville, Indiana, honors a real-life riveter who worked on B-24 bombers.
Nichel, Germany
Nazi-Era Italian Laborers Memorial
A quiet pine forest near Nichel hides a powerful memorial to victims of a nearly forgotten war crime.
Shunan, Japan
Kaiten Memorial Museum
This museum tells the stories of Japanese soldiers who went on torpedo kamikaze missions.
Overloon, Netherlands
Oorlogsmuseum Overloon (Overloon War Museum)
Oldest World War 2-themed museum in Western Europe.
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