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The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

The cave of a 12th-century hermit is still visited and venerated today.

Some believe that the artist behind this whimsical statue inserted his own likeness as a way to discreetly flip the bird.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

It might look like just a pile of sticks—because it is. But there's a dark history to how this stack got its start.

Residents of this seaside village are building a miniature 1:10 scale version of their historic town.

These artifacts were discovered during the construction of the airport, with some dating back to the Neolithic period.

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

Visible at low tide, this rusting vessel is one of the last surviving examples of the X-Class "Midget" submarines.

A long-abandoned relic of World War II.

An eccentric memorial garden to the "warrior" birds of World War I, the messenger pigeons used by the Allied forces.

You can still see bits of the camouflage used to hide this Art Deco building from bombers during World War II.

Dedicated to the man who saved hundreds of children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.

This lakeside bunker complex in Mamerki, Poland, housed the Supreme Military Command of Nazi Germany during World War II.

A memorial commemorating the place where Truman gave the order to deploy the first nuclear bombs on Japan.

Some of the last remaining relics of one of World War II's most important invasions.

This observation tower is one of two of its kind that still exist in the United Kingdom.

Hidden from the ground but visible from above, this arrow target in the New Forest is part of Hampshire's rich World War II history.

A World War I relic found in the middle of a modern residential area.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

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

Tintin's creator is celebrated in an immersive museum that's an astounding work of modern art.

This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.

A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.