Index - A
abandoned places >ghost towns, >ruins, >urban exploration
ABC islands >Curacao
Abdoulaye Wade >
Dakar, Senegal
Abkhazia >Georgia
Able (nuclear test) >Bikini, >
NTS
Aboriginals >Australia, >East Timor; >
genocide
Academy of Sciences >
Riga, Latvia
Adriatic Sea >Montenegro; >
Bologna, Italy
"The
Adventures of Baron Munchhausen" (movie) >
Belchite
Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group >
AMARG
Afghanistan >
Afghanistan Museum,
Hamburg, Germany; >
Imperial War Museum, London; >
Armed Forces Museum, Oslo; >
Military History Museum, Dresden, >
Haus der Geschichte Bonn; >
Rodina Mat & war museums, >
Kiev, Ukraine (cf. >
Arlington; >
Almaty, >
Museum of the President's Cultural Centre, Astana, >Semey, Kazakhstan, >Oslo, Norway, >Transnistria; >Vilnius, Lithuania)
African Renaissance Monument >
Dakar, Senegal
African World War >Congo
Agathe Uwiringiyimana >
Kigali, Rwanda
Aghori monks >India
Agrasen Ki Baoli stepwell >
Delhi, India
Mamoud Ahmadinejad >former US embassy in Teheran, Iran
ahu >Easter Island
Ahu Ko Te Riku >Easter Island
Ahu Nau Nau, Anakena >Easter Island
Ahu Tahai >Easter Island
Ahu Te Pito Kura >Easter Island
Ahu Tongariki >Easter Island
Ahu Vai Uri >Easter Island
Aikichi Kuboyama >Bikini
Aileu >East Timor
Air India flight 182 terrorist bombing >
Amritsar
Airlift >Berlin Airlift
Airship Museum, Longyearbyen >Svalbard
AIR Studios >Montserrat, >
MVO
Akaka Falls >Hawaii
Aker Brygge >
Oslo, Norway
Akmolinstiy internment camp for the wives of the betrayers of the homeland >
ALZHIR
Aktau, Kazakhstan >Azerbaijan
Alang ship-breaking yards >India
albatross >Tristan da Cunha
Albert Einstein >Einstein
Alderney >Channel Islands
Alexandowka Russian Colony >Potsdam
Algarve >Portugal
Shere Ali >Shere
Aliya Moldagulova >
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Aljube prison >
Lisbon, Portugal
Allied bombing of Dresden/Hamburg >bombing of Dresden/Hamburg
alley of communist statues >
Aksu, >
Semey, Kazakhstan
All Souls Memorial Church >
Kanpur, India
Alnwick, Northumberland, England, Great Britain
Al Rockoff >Rockoff
altitude sickness >
Uyuni, Bolivia
Alyn Asyr Centre >
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Ambedkar Memorial park >
Lucknow, India
American Indians >Native Americans
Amguid meteorite crater >Algeria
Idi Amin >Uganda
Amohoro Stadium >
Kigali, Rwanda
Amon Göth >Göth
Amundsen-Scott South Pole station >Antarctica
Anakena >Easter Island
Anak Krakatau >Krakatoa
Kofi Anan >Annan
Anatolia >Turkey (>Ani; >Ararat)
Anatomical Museum, Bologna >Bologna, Italy
anatomical wax models >Josephinum, Vienna
Anders Breivik >Norway, >Oslo
Andes >Bolivia; >Chile; >Ushuaia, Argentina
andesitic volcano >Montserrat
Andrei Sakharov >Sakharov
Andrejsala >Riga, Latvia
Andreu Nin >Nin
anencephaly >Mutter Museum, Philadelphia; >Narrenturm – pathologic-anatomical museum, Vienna; >Semey anatomical museum, Kazakhstan; >Paul Stradins Museum of the History of Medicine, Riga; >
Palazzo Poggi, Bologna
Angela Merkel >Bautzener Straße, Dresden
Angel Falls >Venezuela
Angelikastraße former KGB villa of Valdimir Putin >Bautzener Straße, Dresden
Angel Island >Alcatraz
Angels' Bridge & Devil's Bridge >KGB cells museum, Tartu
Angkor Wat & Angkor Thom >Cambodia >Landmine Museum
Anglo-Irish Treaty >Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, >Ireland
Angola >Cape Verde Islands; >Maison des Esclaves; >Portugal; >Tarrafal prison camp; >East Timor history
anhydrite >Mittelbau-Dora
Ani, Turkey >Ani viewpoint, Armenia; >Gyumri
"A Night to Remember" (movie) >Titanic Belfast Experience
"An Inconvenient Truth" (documentary film) >Al Gore, >Fjaerland glacier museum, Norway
Anipemza >Ani viewpoint & Iron Curtain, Armenia
Ankara, Turkey >Anitkabir
Anlong Veng site of Pol Pot's cremation & Ta Mok's house, Cambodia
Kofi Annan >Museum of the First President, Astana; >UN Headquarters, New York; >East Timor history
Anne Frank (Anne Frank House Amsterdam; >Westerbork; >Bergen-Belsen,
>Jewish Museum Berlin, >Anne Frank Centre, Berlin)
Anne Frank statue >Anne Frank House, Amsterdam
anni di piombo (Years of Lead) >Bologna, Italy
Annie shot (nuclear test) >NTS
Antarctica (cf. >ex-prison & maritime museum, >Ushuaia; cf. >Falkland Islands, >South Georgia)
antenna relic from the >WTC North Tower >Newseum, Washington D.C.
anti-aircraft gun bunkers >Flaktowers
anti-communism exhibition >Pancasila Sakti, Jakarta
Antietam >Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, USA
anti-fascist resistance >Münchner Platz Memorial, Dresden, >Buchenwald
Antigua >Montserrat
anti-Nukes movement >National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, >NTS; >Zwentendorf; >Japan
Anti-Russian propaganda >Georgia
"Anti-Terror Fence" / West Bank Barrier >Jerusalem
anthracite mining >Centralia, Pennsylvania, USA
"anthrax island" >Gruinard Island, Scotland
"Anthropoid" >Operation Anthropoid (>St Cyril and Methodius church crypt, Prague, >Lidice, Czech Republic)
Antofagasta, Chile >Chacabuco, >Uyuni, Bolivia
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar >Portugal
Anton Karas >Third Man tours of Vienna's sewers
Anyer, West Java, Indonesia >Krakatoa
Ape Cave >Mount St Helens
Apodeti >East Timor history
appeasement >Munich
Apple II (nuclear test) >NTS
Apollo 1 disaster >Onizuka Space Center
Apollo 13 >Onizuka Space Ceneter
Apollo moon landing missions >AMARG; >Barringer Meteor Crater; >Chacabuco, Atacama, Chile; >Hawaii; >Haus der Geschiche Bonn; >NTS; >Onizuka Space Centre, Hawaii; >Peenemünde, Germany; >Titan Missile Museum
aquarium >Immigration Museum, Paris
ARA (= Armada de la Republica Argentina) >General Belgrano, >
Falklands War
Arab Spring >Checkpoint Charlie (cf. >Libya)
Arafat >International Friendship Exhibition, North Korea; >Museum of Independence, Baku, Azerbaijan
Aragats, Armenia >Spitak
Viktors Arajs >Rumbula
Aral Sea (Lake Aral), Kazakhstan/Uzbekistan >Aralsk
Ararat >Mt Ararat, meteor crater & Noah's Arc, Turkey; >Yerevan, >Armenia, >Sisian
Arbanasi >Bulgaria
arboretum >Armenian Genocide Memorial, Yerevan; >National Memorial Arboretum, Great Britain, >Stanley, Falkland Islands
Arc de Triomphe >Paris (cf. >Pyongyang)
Archduke Frank Ferdinand >Franz Ferdinand
"Archipelago Gulag" (book) >Ekibastuz (regional museum)
Arch of Friendship >Kiev, Ukraine
Arch of Neutrality >Ashgabat, Turkmenistan; >Turkmenbashy Gifts Museum
Arch of Sorrow/Grief >ALZHIR
Arch of Triumph >Pyongyang, North Korea (cf. >Arce de Triomphe, >Paris)
Arctic >Iceland; >Kirkenes, Norway; >Murmansk, Russia; >Svalbard (Spitsbergen), >Pyramiden
Arctic convoys >Murmansk, Russia; >Churchill War Rooms, London
Ardyn Halter >Gisozi Genocide Memorial Centre Kigali, Rwanda
Area 51 >Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas
Argentina (cf. >Bremerhaven Emigration Center)
Argentine Air Force >Fitzroy, Falklands, >Falklands War, >plane crash sites near Port Howard
Argentine Family Commission >Goose Green & Darwin, Falklands
Argentinian war cemetery, Darwin >Goose Green & Darwin, Falklands
Ariane rocket >French Guyana
"Arirang" >Mass Games, Pyongyang, North Korea
Arizona, USA >AMARG, >Barringer Meteor Crater, >Titan Missile Museum
"Arizona" >USS Arizona
Arjuna Wijaya statue >Jakarta, Indonesia
"Arkansas" >Bikini
Arkensas missile silo accident >Titan Missile Museum
Arktikugol >Pyramiden, Svalbard
Armavir, Armenia >Metsamor, >Sardarapat
Armed Forces Museum >Jakarta, Indonesia
Armed Forces Museum, Moscow >Central Museum of Armed Forces
Armenian Diaspora >Armenia, >Yerevan, >Nagorno-Karabakh
Armenian Genocide >Armenian Genocide Memorial, Yerevan; >Armenia; >Army Museum, Paris; >death marches; >Gisozi Genocide Memorial Centre, Kigali, Rwanda; >Ani, >Turkey
Armenian-Russian friendship >Gyumri
Armistice Talks Hall >Panmunjom & DMZ, North Korea
Army Museum (Armemuseum) >Stockholm, Schweden
Arnold Strippel >Strippel
Galya Aroustamyan >Museum of Fallen Soldiers, Nagorno-Karabakh
Arpa River >Ani, Turkey (cf. >Ani viewpoint & Iron Curtain, Armenia)
Arpi >Gyumri
Arrol gantry >Titanic Quarter, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Arrow Cross >Budapest
Arsenal >Military History Museum Vienna
Arsenal Uprising 1918 >Kiev, Ukraine
Art nouveau >Riga, Latvia, >Vienna
Artsakh >Nagorno-Karabakh; >Mother Armenia & Military Museum, Yerevan
Artsvashem >Mother Armenia & Military Museum, Yerevan
Arusha, Tanzania >International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda
Arytom island >Absheron peninsula, Azerbaijan
Loreta Asanavičiūtė >TV Tower, Vilnius, >Antakalnis cemetery
asbestos >Asbestos, Quebec, Canada; >Wittenoom, Australia; >Palace of the Republic, Berlin, >Marienthal government bunker; >Westerbork, Netherlands
Ascension Island >St Helena, >Falkland Islands
ascensores (lifts, funiculars) >Valparaiso, Chile (cf. Lisbon)
Asco I & II nuclear power plants >Ebro
ASDT >East Timor history
ash(fall) >Iceland, >Merapi, >Montserrat, >Sakurajima
Ashland, Pennsylvania, USA >Centralia
Askeran >Nagorno-Karabakh
Askja >Viti, Iceland
Asociacion de ex-combatientes historicos >Nicaragua
Assad >International Friendship Exhibition
Astana, Kazakhstan (Museum of the First President, Museum of the President's Cultural Centre)
asteroid impact >Mexico
Alfreo Astiz >ESMA, Buenos Aires
astronomical observatories >Hawaii
Atacama desert >Chile, >Chacabuco, >Chuquicamata; >Uyuni, Bolivia
Atameken >Astana, Kazakhstan
Atamu Tekena >Easter Island
Atauro island >East Timor
Ateshgah fire temple >Absheron peninsula, Azerbaijan
Athens >Makronisos, >Yaros
SS "Atlantic Conveyor" >Fitzroy, >San Carlos, Falklands
Atlantic convoys >Armed Forces Museum, Oslo, >Norwegian Resistance Museum, Oslo; >Murmansk, Russia, >Churchill War Rooms, London
The Atlantic Ocean (>Falklands, >Iceland, >South Georgia, >St Helena, >Titanic, >Tristan da Cunha)
Atlantic Ocean Road, Norway >Falstad Centre
Atlantic slave trade >Maison des Esclaves, Senegal; >Ghana; >slavery museum Kura, Curacao; >Cape Verde Islands
Atlantic Wall, France (cf. >Normandy D-Day landings and other WWII sites)
atmospheric tests >Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, >Bikini, >NTS, >the
Polygon, >Trinity (in general: >nuclear testing)
atomic power/sites >nuclear sites
atom(ic) bomb (cf. >Reggane and In Ekker, Algeria; Montebello Islands, Australia; >Cecilienhof Potsdam, Germany, >Haus der Geschiche Bonn; >Hack Green, Great Britain; >Hiroshima and >Nagasaki, >Japan; >the Polygon, Kazakhstan; >Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum, Vemork, Norway; >Bikini, >Tinian, Pacific; >Atomic Testing Museum, >NTS, >Los Alamos, >National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, USA)
Atomic Annie cannon >National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, >NTS
atomic cannon >National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Atomic City >Los Alamos & Bradbury Science Museum; >Richland,
Hanford
Atomic Lake >the Polygon, >Museum of the Semipalatinsk Test Site; >Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas
Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, USA (cf. >Museum of the Semipalatinsk Test Site)
David Attenborough >Fjaerland glacier museum, Norway
Clement Attlee >Cecilienhof Potsdam
Atuona >Marquesas islands
Auberge Îles du Salut >Devil's Island
Auburn system >West Virginia Penitentiary, USA
"audio walk" >Gusen, Austria
Auerbachs Keller >Leipzig
Augarten park >Flaktowers in Augarten >Vienna
Augusto Sandino >Sandino
Aukos Laukas ('sacrifice field') >Kaunas, Lithuania
Aurora cruiser >Saint Petersburg
Ausweichsitz der Verfassungsorgane des Bundes >Marienthal government bunker
Auschwitz, Poland (cf. >
concentration camps; >
death camps; >extermination camps; >
logo; >Illinois Holocaust Museum; >Imperial War Museum, London; >US Holocaust Memorial Museum; >Resistance Museum, Bergen; >Gisozi Genocide Memorial Centre Kigali; >
Gross-Rosen; >9th Fort, Kaunas;>Drancy memorial, >deportation monument Paris, >Shoah memorial museum Paris)
Aussies = Australians >East Timor
Australian Flag >Balibo, East Timor
Australian Government Department for Veterans' Affairs >Hellfire Pass
Auswandererhaus >Bremerhaven Emigration Center
Autobahn >Germany
Auyan Tepui >Venezuela
Avala TV tower >NATO bombing scars in Belgrade
AWACS >Paris; >Military History Museum, Dresden, Germany
Awami >Bangladesh
Axis of Continuity/Axis of Exile/Axis of the Holocaust >Jewish Museum Berlin
axis of evil >North Korea, >modern art gallery with exhibition of gifts to Tito, Podgorica
Axis powers (>Germany, >Italy, >Japan; cf. >Bulgaria, >Romania; >
Mussolini, >
WWII)
Ayers Rock >Uluru
Azaria Chamberlain >Australia
Azeri >Azerbaijan (>Nagorno-Karabakh)
Charles Aznavour >Gyumri
Azucena Villaflor de Vicenti >ESMA, Buenos Aires
America's Most Wanted
>Museum of Crime & Punishment, Washington D.C.