Junction City, Kansas
Atomic Annie
A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.
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Junction City, Kansas
A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.
Luganville, Vanuatu
This cruise ship-turned-warship sank during World War II, and is now a world-renowned dive site.
Chloraka, Cyprus
This abandoned ship has remained in place since it ran aground in 1998.
Movatn, Norway
The remains of a German plane still sit in the Norwegian wood where it crashed in 1942.
Étretat, France
In 1927, a biplane disappeared while attempting to complete the first non-stop transatlantic flight between Paris and New York City. This memorial stands at the last place it was seen.
Southampton, England
Some of the last remaining relics of one of World War II's most important invasions.
Manchester, England
Remembering the 72 passengers who lost their lives in 1967 airplane wreck.
Alnwick, England
This restaurant was removed from the famed sister ship of the Titanic and placed within a hotel.
Longniddry, Scotland
Visible at low tide, this rusting vessel is one of the last surviving examples of the X-Class "Midget" submarines.
Ballina, Ireland
The remains of a concrete ship sit on a sandbank between Ballina Quay and Belleek Woods.
Mount Macedon, Australia
A monument commemorating the lives lost when a plane crashed into Mount Macedon in 1948.
Kowen, Australia
This memorial marks the site of not only of a tragic wreck, but an event that led to the downfall of a wartime government.
Kuala Klawang, Malaysia
The remains of this RAF plane and its crew were lost for decades, nearly engulfed by the Malaysian jungle.
Morocco
An old airplane engine forms an unusual cairn atop this Moroccan peak.
Kaumakani, Hawaii
A Japanese pilot crash-landed on this Hawaiian island after the Pearl Harbor attack and terrorized locals for a week.
Chaudeyrolles, France
A snowy highland notorious for unexplained aircraft crashes is France's own Bermuda Triangle.
Ballum, Netherlands
Found in the waddenzee, this propeller has been put on public display as a reminder of the Second World War.
Sweden
An American crash site from WWII is marked deep in a Swedish forest.
Balwest, England
A small stone memorial marks the spot where a Bristol Beaufort aircraft crashed in 1941.
Wanlockhead, Scotland
A memorial dedicated to a tragic World War II aviation accident.
Galway, Ireland
A strange egg in a mucky bog of western Ireland marks the spot of an aviation milestone.
Outer Hebrides, Scotland
The rusting remnants of a flying boat lie scattered near the site of its fatal crash.
Rokers Point Settlement, Bahamas
One of the most accessible undersea plane wrecks in the world.
Magnolia, Mississippi
A seven-ton black granite monument dedicated to the memory of those who died and those who lived through the 1977 crash of the popular Southern rock band.