A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

The largest Commonwealth memorial to the missing and dead of the Battle of the Somme.

In an arboretum with hundreds of memorials to the fallen, this one might be the most poignant.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

This place bears witness to the loss of many lives during WWII, and stands in stark contrast to the American Cemetery.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.

During World War II, the Nazis repurposed this beer cellar to store stolen artwork.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

An empty bookshelf commemorates the books which were lost during the infamous event

One of the best-preserved pieces of DDR propaganda in Berlin.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

Dedicated to the European Sinti and Roma peoples murdered during the Holocaust.

Cemetery honors Americans who died during WWII and is the resting place of Gen. George S. Patton.

Dedicated to the American general whose reply to a German demand for surrender was simply "Nuts!"

The last surviving submarine from a strange chapter of Finnish history.

This bunker in northern France was built by Nazi German forces with the intention of launching up to 50 V2 rockets at London each day.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.

Bloodstains can still be seen in this medieval church where two medics saved lives on D-Day.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.