Military and Cold War
Military history leaves concrete behind. These stories cover fortresses, battlefields, bunkers and Cold War installations, many of them abandoned or hiding in plain sight.
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The shingle-covered Villa du Général
Rue de Paris 49, Saint-Denis
Friendly Jane At a secret scientific laboratory operating in the 'Dynamo' station,
The Castillo del Desnarigado on the coast of Ceuta
Ermita de Nuestra Señora de la Caridad in La Oliva
Iglesia de Santa Catalina Mártir de Alejandría
The royal mausoleum of Tourbet el Bey
The Tale of Seven Brave Soldiers: A Monument on the Vistas of Farm Voigtskub,
The Battle of Mogadishu: A pyrrhic victory in 1993
The Roman fort of Gheriat esh-Shergia
The religious and political hub of Herakleopolis Magna
Le monument Delville au parc Louis Botha
The Battle of Isandlwana and the Zulu victory
The Market House in Providence, Rhode Island
South Main Street 4
No Other
The stone walls of Fort Garrison
Victorian Gothic Revival at Chestnut Street
Chestnut Street 5
No Other
The Southeast Steam Plant: Minneapolis's historic university powerhouse
Southeast Main Street 600, Minneapolis
No Other
The Richardsonian Romanesque Dime Bank Building
Biden Street, Scranton
No Other
The Confederate Memorial at Indian Mound Cemetery
The North Wall honors Canadian veterans in Windsor
The 1937 Missouri Pacific Railway Caboose No. 928 in Bald Knob
The Norfleet Cotton Press of Tarboro
The 1891 Survey Marker that Served as the US Horizontal Datum
A monument to the Confederate dead in Bowling Green
The 10-foot-tall Confederate Memorial fountain in Mayfield
The Fort Smith Confederate Monument
The Beriah Magoffin Monument in Harrodsburg
The Monticello Confederate Monument
The Soldiers' Monument of Freeport, Illinois
The brief tenure of Fort Steuben
South 3rd Street 120, Steubenville
Friendly Jane 
The 1812 night landing that took Fort Mackinac
The Greenbrier Bunker: West Virginia's Secret Government Facility
Suffield Historic District
Wauregan Historic District
The John Ericsson Memorial at the National Mall
Henry B. Plant Museum
West Kennedy Boulevard 401, Tampa
Friendly Jane 
The House of Christopher Columbus in Genoa
The room where a young Mozart performed
Via San Felice 24, Bologna
Nicolo Ciampini 
The Military Fort of Forte Tagliata delle Fontanelle
The Battle of Passo del Pertus
The strategic fortress of Vicopisano and the works of Brunelleschi
The Austrian Fortress That Traded Artillery for Wooden Cannons
Medieval Fortress Transformed by Family's Passion
Via San Defendente 2, Gabiano
Nicolo Ciampini Forte Poggio Pol
Villa Giusti
Via Armistizio 139/141
Nicolo Ciampini Austro-Hungarian Fort Carriola
Forte Pramand: a reinforced concrete fort above Pont Ventoux
The Ossario Piccoli Martiri di Gorla
Villa Caldogno attributed to Andrea Palladio
Via Pagello 2
Nicolo Ciampini 