Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands
Atomic Bomb Loading Pits
The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.
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Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands
The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
Once a popular hangout spot this huge mall was left to ruin after economic crash.
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
This abandoned radar site is slowly being taken back by the jungle, its mission cut short by the end of the Cold War.
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
Where hundreds of Japanese civilians committed suicide to avoid being captured by American soldiers during WWII.
Nanwei, Micronesia
The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.
Marshall Islands
A war relic that has sat undisturbed since it crash-landed near Arno Atoll.
United States Minor Outlying Islands
A desperate final message left by a POW on the run serves as a memorial for himself and the 97 that died with him.
A remote coral island with a gristly history of shipwreck, battles, and a horrendous war crime.
France
Abandoned outpost once home to a murderous tyrant.
Nahwa, United Arab Emirates
A small United Arab Emirates territory within an Omani enclave within the United Arab Emirates.
United States / Canada
The only land territory disputed between the U.S. and Canada.
Antarctica
The remains of a doomed Antarctic plane, buried beneath layers of ice and snow, await those willing to do a bit of digging.
Glossop, England
The wreck of a B-29 Superfortress now stands as a memorial left in the moors.
Valentine Plains, Australia
For nearly 50 years this airplane that crashed during World War II remained missing in the remote Australian backcountry.
Silver Plume, Colorado
The remnants of a 1970 plane crash remain high in the Rocky Mountains.
Opijnen, Netherlands
A unique World War II memorial commemorates where the American B-17 bomber Man-O-War crashed.
Eveleth, Minnesota
A memorial to the late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, who died at this location, along with seven others, in a plane crash in 2002.
Glasgow, Scotland
The remains of a 70-year-old military aircraft crash landing still sit on this Scottish hillside.
Churchill, Manitoba
A crash site in the heart of polar bear territory has become a beloved local landmark.
Churchill, Manitoba
The rusting hulk of a 250-foot-long merchant vessel remains where she grounded on the shore of Hudson Bay.
Peyia, Cyprus
While most shipwrecks are submerged, this ship in Cyprus ran ashore.
Lesina Marina, Italy
Remains of a cargo ship that wrecked in 1988.
Stockholm, Sweden
At low tide, you can see the remains of a 17th-century ship just off a Stockholm island.
Hel, Poland
The rusting hulk of a Soviet warship sits on a Polish beach.