Bunkers
Dülmen-Visbeck: the Cold War bunker under a quiet field
A concrete world built for a war that never came, hidden in plain sight in a German forest.
Category · Cold War & military sites
Abandoned Bunkers
Cold War and military sites. Concrete worlds built for wars that never came, now sealed, flooded or simply forgotten.
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The entries
Bunkers in the archive
Each entry covers the history, the present condition, and the ethics of visiting a place that is often both private property and public heritage.
Bunkers
The Maunsell Forts: wartime towers in the North Sea
Army and navy forts on stilts in the sea, built to shoot down bombers — and left standing ever since.
Bunkers
Teufelsberg: the spy station built on a hill of rubble
A hill built from the ruins of Berlin, crowned by the listening station that spied on the East.
