During World War II, an unlikely team of soldiers was charged with identifying and protecting European cultural sites, monuments, and buildings from Allied bombing. Officially named the Monuments, ...

From ancient sites to beautiful European palaces, these famous landmarks in Europe will take ... However, following three major fires, the present structure mainly resembles the reconstruction ...

Major landmarks generate income for local residents ... (Getty Images)| Mysterious Stonehenge, Europe's best-known prehistoric site, likely originated as a sculpted earthwork 5,000 years ago.

Europe's museums stripped ... points in the American zone of Germany. At major collecting points—in Wiesbaden, Munich and Offenbach—other Monuments teams arranged objects by country of origin ...

As Allied Forces advanced across Europe, the Monuments Men discovered stolen treasures hidden underground, in mines across Germany and Austria. Archives of American Art Aerial view of Altaussee salt ...