Willebroek, Belgium
Fort Breendonk
Walk through a well-preserved World War II Nazi prison and transit camp.
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Willebroek, Belgium
Walk through a well-preserved World War II Nazi prison and transit camp.
Borger, Netherlands
More than 5,000 years old, D27 is the largest dolmen in the Netherlands and was already standing long before Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids were built.
Bristol, England
This beloved piece of street art mysteriously vanished, only to reappear in its original location after some much-needed TLC.
Fernandina Beach, Florida
Used as a military post in three different engagements, this fort has remained incomplete and unfired upon for nearly 200 years.
Trollbäcken, Sweden
A century-old fort from Stockholm’s “Sausage Line” defenses.
Candolim, India
An old bastion at the base of Aguada Fort protrudes into the sea, offering picturesque views.
Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer, France
Impressive spectacle of how a bunker can land on a beach and resist mother nature for the years that have passed since WWII.
Mainz, Germany
An ancient Roman temple hidden in the basement of Römerpassage, a modern shopping mall.
Gibraltar
Engineering ingenuity during the battle of Gibraltar.
Münster, Germany
A 16th-century fortress that was a Nazi-era prison and execution site, now a silent memorial.
Kronberg im Taunus, Germany
A comprehensive visual archive of Braun products. A German national treasure of modern design.
Paris, France
France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.
Couvin, Belgium
This bunker site once briefly used by Hitler now features locals’ accounts of German occupation.
Bad Bergzabern, Germany
This museum in the small German city offers a unique glimpse into World War II history.
Den Haag, Netherlands
A buried bunker offers both a scenic view and a melancholy reminder of Duindorp’s wartime past.
Nijmegen, Netherlands
This World War II-era bunker hides between medieval chapels in Nijmegen's city center.
Valletta, Malta
Both the World War II Allied Forces and NATO have used this modern bunker underneath Malta’s capital.
Cheb, Czechia
The room where the famous commander of the Catholic forces was murdered by Irish assassins during the Thirty Years' War has been reconstructed with many of his original possessions.
Bítov, Czechia
The castle in the romantic landscape of Podyjí houses what may be Europe's largest collection of taxidermy dogs.
Mariánské Lázně, Czechia
Stroll past dozens of intricately-detailed scale replicas of buildings from all over Czechia.
Prague, Czechia
A small monument on the outskirts of Prague, where one of the bloodiest conflicts in the country's history was decided.
Terezín, Czechia
Created as a "model concentration camp" to hide Nazi atrocities from the international community, this former camp-ghetto now holds a museum and memorial honoring the lives lost within.
Prague, Czechia
Local folklore claims that this wall was not built for defense, but to provide labor during a time of famine.
Blatce, Czechia
Folklore says this medieval fortress was plopped atop a portal to hell to trap the demons below.