World War II

A rare World War II-era siren still survives in the southern suburbs of Manchester.

A 20th-century naval quarantine center is now a local park.

These secretive tunnels were once the site of a Royal Air Force fuel reserve depot.

Somber memorial to the May 10, 1933, book-burning which took place on this spot.

A seaside cemetery honors the Commonwealth soldiers and sailors that died in Sierra Leone during World War I and II.

World War II air raids over Bristol dislodged this fragment of tram line that ended up embedded in a churchyard.

This 19th-century church was built for Sicilian immigrants, survived World War II, and today stands on a landfill.

This memorial commemorates where a Japanese commander surrendered to Allied forces on September 3, 1945.

This modest site memorializes a World War II mission described without hyperbole as “the greatest raid of all.”

The gnarled remains of an exploded German bunker from World War II sit along a breathtaking fjord.

During World War II, over 13,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated in this camp in the Idaho desert.

This abandoned but well-preserved Prussian fortress sits abandoned in a Polish forest near the German border.

The world's largest collection of historic U.S. military naval vessels.