Tag: War History
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Rumbula
A memorial commemorating one of the worst massacres perpetrated in the Holocaust by the Nazi Einsatzgruppen against the Jews of Latvia , when on just two...
Bali bombing memorial
The main memorial site in Kuta, Bali, commemorating the terrorist bombing attacks of October 2002 which killed over 200 people, mostly tourists,...
Chateau Laroche
ChΓ’teau Laroche, also known as the Loveland Castle, is a museum on the banks of the Little Miami River north of Loveland, Ohio, United States.
Memorial Ossuary to fallen soldiers 1912-1918. at the cemetery in ΔaΔak
The Memorial ossuary to fallen soldiers in 1912-1918 or Monument to soldiers of four faiths is a war memorial erected on September 23, 1934 to soldiers...
votive temple of Santa Maria Immacolata
Church and war memorial in Lido di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
Unit 731 Museum
This has to be one of the darkest places on Earth.
Redipuglia war memorial
The Redipuglia War Memorial (Italian: Sacrario militare di Redipuglia) is a World War I memorial located on the Karst Plateau near the village of Fogliano...
Monte Grappa war memorial
The military memorial of Monte Grappa is the largest Italian military ossuary of the First World War.
Caporetto war memorial
The Italian Charnel House, Kobarid (Italian: Sacrario militare di Caporetto; Slovene: Italijanska kostnica nad Kobaridom) is an Italian military shrine in...
Field of Memory
War memorial cemetery in Nettuno, Italy.
Aurora
is a ghost town in Mineral County in the west central part of the US state of Nevada, approximately 22 mi (35 km) southwest of the town of Hawthorne,...
Adobe Walls
is a ghost town in Hutchinson County, 17 miles (27 km) northeast of Stinnett, in the U.S. state of Texas.
The ossuary of the victims of the First world War
is a notable monument location in Ljubljana City Municipality, Slovenia.
Sacrario militare dei Caduti Oltremare
The Sacrario dei Caduti Oltremare (War Memorial of the Fallen Overseas) is a World War II memorial located in the city of Bari, in the Apulia region of...
Oslavia War Memorial
The Oslavia War Memorial is an Italian monument to soldiers who fell in battle during the battles of the Isonzo, particularly those who died during the...
Andersonville
was a town in Anderson County, South Carolina, that was settled around 1800. It was named for Robert Anderson, who was a Revolutionary War veteran.
Beaver Mills
also known as Beaver Meadow, is a ghost town in Mobile County, Alabama, United States, near U.S. Route 45, south of Citronelle.
Burlington Cenotaph
Cenotaph in Burlington, Ontario, Dedicated to Local Veterans of the First World War, the World War II, and the Korean War.
Washington-on-the-Brazos
also known simply as Washington, is an unincorporated community along the Brazos River in Washington County, Texas, United States.
Rudelsburg
The Rudelsburg is a ruined hill castle located on the east bank of the river Saale above Saaleck, a village in the borough of Naumburg in the county of...
El Alamein Italian Military Memorial
The Italian war memorial at El Alamein is an Italian war cemetery, museum, and memorial to the Italian soldiers who fought at the two Battles of El...
military shrine of Asiago
The Asiago War Memorial is a World War I memorial located in the town of Asiago in the Province of Vicenza in the Veneto region of northeast Italy.
Arcola
is a ghost town on the Black Warrior River in what is now Hale County, formerly Marengo County, Alabama.
Alunite
( AL-Ι-nyte) is a ghost town located some 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Marysvale, near the mouth of Cottonwood Canyon in Piute County, Utah, United States.
Jerusalem
Nominally, Jerusalem is today the capital city of Israel but has long been, and still is, one of the most contested places in all of history.
Zebrnjak
The Zebrnjak Memorial (Serbian: Π‘ΠΏΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½-ΠΊΠΎΡΡΡΡΠ½ΠΈΡΠ° Π½Π° Π±ΡΠ΄Ρ ΠΠ΅Π±ΡΡΠ°ΠΊΡ) is a war memorial commemorating the Battle of Kumanovo, fought in 1912 as part of the...
Ligatne Soviet bunker
A marvellous Cold War relic from the Soviet era in Latvia β a formerly secret government bunker from where the Soviet administrative affairs were supposed...
Parque de la Memoria Buenos Aires
Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires A memorial on the edge of Buenos Aires that commemorates the "disappeared" in particular and the whole topic of...
Buenos Aires
The capital city of Argentina and one of Latin America's mega-metropolises (with some 12 million inhabitants) and main cultural hubs.
Srebrenica
PotoΔari memorial site The memorial for what is known as the Srebrenica massacre, or even Srebrenica genocide , committed in July 1995 by Bosnian Serbs...
9th Fort
and Monument, Kaunas The top dark site in the area of Kaunas , Lithuania , hands down. In fact it's three sites in one, as it were.
Grafeneck euthanasia centre
One of the six "euthanasia" centres of Operation T4 , the Nazis ' programme of systematically murdering mentally ill and disabled people during the Third...
MaarjamΓ€e memorial complex
There are three distinct points of interest here.
D-Day sites in Normandy
D-Day museums and memorials in Normandy The β D-Day β landings of Operation Overload, i.e.
Bullenhuser Damm
memorial A relatively small but extremely moving memorial site in Hamburg , Germany .
White Rose memorial museum Munich
White Rose memorial DenkStΓ€tte WeiΓe Rose A small memorial museum in Munich dedicated to the "WeiΓe Rose" resistance movement in Nazi Germany during WWII...
Vinh Moc tunnels, Vietnam
Vinh Moc tunnels, Central Vietnam Another network of tunnels and underground dug-outs near the DMZ , in Central Vietnam .
Dresden
A city in the south-east of Germany that is in the dark annals of world history primarily as the victim of one of the worst aerial bombing raids in the...
Halifax, Nova Scotia
A harbour town on the east coast of Nova Scotia, Canada , whose maritime heritage includes a couple of particularly dark ones.
MΓΌnchner Platz Memorial, Dresden
( for German speakers ) Part of a former courthouse and prison in Dresden , Germany , that was used as an execution site both by the Nazis in the Third...
Gori war museum
( if you can read Russian) A small museum in the Georgian town of Gori , which is better known for its large Stalin Museum .
EL-DE Haus
NS-Dokumentationszentrum A former Gestapo HQ and prison in Cologne , west Germany , and now also home to the city's documentation centre about the Nazi...
Absheron peninsula, Azerbaijan
Absheron peninsula to (overall; individually between 1 for Arteshgah, and 8 for Artyom) A semi-desert promontory that pokes out eastwards into the Caspian...
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
The central memorial space dedicated to commemorating the A-bombing of Hiroshima .
BallinStadt emigration museum
Hamburg A museum chronicling the waves of emigration from Europe to the New World, mostly the USA , as well as migration in general.
GroΓ-Rosen
Though less well known than, say, Dachau or Buchenwald , Gross-Rosen was also one of the main large concentration camps in what was then Nazi Germany .
Banjica
A small museum in Belgrade commemorating one of Nazi Germany 's concentration camps in the Balkans during the occupation of Serbia in WWII from June 1941.
Colditz
Possibly the most famous German POW prison of WWII , thanks to the legend of high-profile escapes that have been celebrated in books and films, especially...
Churchill War Rooms
London The underground bunker rooms in Whitehall, London , which served as the secret headquarters for Winston Churchill and his war cabinet from where...
Villa Severina, El Correo 1.2
El Correo is a series that compiles the informal and playful exchange of letters between the editors of Hidden Architecture, defining a contingent...
Lescaze House and Studio
The introduction of the International Style (mainly the European Modern movement) in United States was gradual and it took almost half century to be...
Plac Solidarnosci
Plac SolidarnoΕci The area outside the main gates to the GdaΕsk shipyards, famous as the backdrop for crucial parts of the media coverage of the trade...
Chiran Kamikaze museum
& shrine The premier memorial space in Japan devoted to those 'special attack groups' known as Kamikaze pilots.
Karosta, Liepaja
Karosta - former naval base, Liepaja The formerly closed garrison town and Soviet naval base that takes up the northern part of the coastal city of...
Sorge open-air border museum
Another border museum on the former line of division between Germany East ( GDR ) and West ( FRG ) during the era of the Iron Curtain and the Cold War .
FrontΓ³n Recoletos
The design of Torroja to cover the rectangular space of the court and grandstands, with dimensions of 55 m long by 32.5 m wide, is the most innovative...
Ebro
to Roughly the area of north-eastern Spain /Catalonia where the Battle of the Ebro was fought in the Spanish Civil War .
Gori, Georgia
A town north-west of Georgia 's capital Tbilisi , and famous as the birthplace of Josef Stalin .
Jallianwala Bagh
Massacre Site A memorial complex and park in the heart of Amritsar , Punjab, north-western India , which in 1919 was the site of one of the worst...
Kobariski muzej
KobariΕ‘ki Muzej A multiple-award-winning museum in Kobarid , Slovenia , about World War One and in particular about the Isonzo Front.
military shrine of Pocol
Sacrario militare di Pocol (also known as Ossario di Pocol) is a cemetery and shrine near the Falzarego Pass, in the locality of Pocol in the comune of...
Falstad Centre
This is the main memorial (as well as research/educational) centre in Norway about the camps for political prisoners, POWs and Jews that were established...
Stutthof concentration camp
The concentration camp that the Nazis set up at the start of World War II for the Danzig/ Gdansk area, as the first such camp in what is today Poland .
Memorial ossuary on MaΔkov kamen
Memorial Ossuary MaΔkov kamen (Serbian Cyrillic: MaΡΠΊΠΎΠ² ΠΊΠ°ΠΌΠ΅Π½) is a memorial monument located near Krupanj, Serbia, which stands on the mountain Jagodnja...
NORTHERN LIGHTS: Villa EngstrΓΆm
This article is part of the Northern Lights series,a personal project curated by Biljana JanjuΕ‘eviΔ, which has strong focus on the experience of the...
Kanchanaburi, Thailand
A provincial capital city in the western region of Thailand of the same name.
Ludlow
is a ghost town in Las Animas County, Colorado, United States. It was the site of the Ludlow Massacreβpart of the Colorado Coalfield Warβin 1914.
Barber
Maurer is residential neighbourhood and industrial district of Perth Amboy in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
Coventry Cathedral
The new and old Cathedral in the city of Coventry, Great Britain .
Preah Vihear
Cambodia An ancient mountain-top temple complex on the Cambodia - Thailand border, the possession of which has long been contested, despite an...
Granezza war memorial
WWII memorial in Asiago, Italy. Granezza war memorial is a notable monument site in Asiago, Italy, known for its unusual character and eerie atmosphere.
Anti-War Museum
A small private museum in Berlin with a big mission: promoting pacifism and β as the name implies β "fighting" against all war.
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church ruins & memorial hall
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church ruins The landmark WWII church ruin in West Berlin , the main tower left in its semi-collapsed state to serve as a...
Behrungen border memorial sites
An ensemble of relics of the former " Iron Curtain " in Germany , i.e.
Sandbostel POW camp
memorial A former Nazi WWII camp for POW s, later overflow concentration camp , in fact one of the most significant such sites in northern Germany .
Harnekop nuclear bunker
Lost places: Harnekop nuclear bunker [ ] UPDATE: sadly, this place has now closed down, since it passed into new hands.
Enola Gay
The "Enola Gay" (for the plane alone; for the whole museum) This is the original B-29 bomber plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima β now an...
Cambodian Landmine Museum
Landmine Museum A small private museum run by an ex-soldier-turned-mine-clearer alongside an NGO/charity near Siem Reap (Angkor), Cambodia .
Chalet HindiΓ©
Designed in the early 1970βs by Lebanese architect Maurice HindiΓ©, this mountain chalet was constructed as a home-refuge for the architect and his family...
MΓΆdlareuth border museum
UPDATE: a new museum building at this site has opened on 9 November 2025. I guess I'll have to go on a revisit to check this out at some point.
Oradour-sur-Glane
A former village in France which in WWII was virtually wiped out on 10 June 1944 when SS -soldiers (of the "Das Reich" unit) massacred nearly the entire...
Andersgrotta, Kirkenes
Andersgrotta Kind of a cross between a cave and an underground bunker in Kirkenes , northern Norway .
A-Bomb Dome
The ruins of the former "Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall", gutted by the atomic bomb β ever since it has been THE landmark of Hiroshima ,...
USAF Museum Dayton
USAF Museum with the "Bockscar" A huge museum in Dayton, Ohio, of (mostly) US military aircraft, the star piece of which, from a dark perspective, has to...
Barcelona
(at present) - The capital city of the βautonomousβ Catalonia province in north-eastern Spain (at least as long as Catalonia doesn't achieve actual...
My Lai, Vietnam
My Lai (Son My) A massacre site in South Central Vietnam β here, in a former rural village area happened what is often considered to have been the worst...
Slavutych Museum
( ) ---------------------------- UPDATE 2 March 2022: due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, this site will be out of tourism reach for some time to come.
DMZ, Vietnam
DMZ, Central Vietnam An area in Central Vietnam which used to be the "demilitarized zone" (DMZ) between North and South Vietnam.
Glienicke Bridge & Museum
Glienicke Bridge & Museum A small bridge with a big history, located right on the border between (West) Berlin and Potsdam .
Kanchanaburi WWII Museum, Thailand
Kanchanaburi World War II Museum (where it is dark β otherwise 1, but weirdness: 10) - A private museum right by the Bridge over the River Kwai in...
Murmansk
A city in the Arctic north-west of Russia , close to the Barents Sea and the easternmost part of Norway .
Norwegian Resistance Museum Oslo
A well-established museum in Oslo about the Norwegian Resistance during the German occupation in WWII .
Sunnyside Gardens
The garden city idea gained traction across the Atlantic before the Great War, and for much of the twentieth century its principles, modified by American...
Red Cross Museum Narvik
Red Cross Museum, Narvik A museum in the town of Narvik , in northern Norway , which played a particularly important role in WWII .
Ondrejsky cemetery
A relatively small, no longer in use cemetery near the centre of Slovakia 's capital Bratislava .
Sacrario Militare Italiano de Zaragoza
Mausoleum to the fallen Italians on both sides of the Spanish Civil War.
Douaumont ossuary
The Douaumont Ossuary (French: Ossuaire de Douaumont) is a memorial containing the skeletal remains of soldiers who died on the battlefield during the...
Golden Lane Estate
The purpose of the Right to Afford series is to open a line of debate and criticism on the current situation of Social Housing through the investigation...
Madrid
The capital city of Spain is the centrally located hub of the country in many respects β¦ except for dark tourism.
Nanjing Massacre Memorial
The Nanjing massacre (often also referred to as "The rape of Nanking" ) was one of the biggest war crimes committed by Japan during their war against...