Germany Kiel, birth place of the German U-Boot An eagle atop a 15-meter-high pillar was inaugurated in 1930 and originally commemorated German marines killed aboard a submarine during World War I.
Germany Laboe Naval Memorial overlooking the Baltic Sea The Laboe Naval Memorial's foundation stone was laid in 1927 at the mouth of the Kieler Fjord in the Baltic Sea. The 72-metre-high tower was finished in 1936.
Iceland British trawler's wrecks A stormy night ended dramatically for the crew of a British trawler on March 13, 1948. Their ship crashed off the rocky coast of Dritvik in western Iceland.
Belgium Abandoned ship loader Le Truc In the Hainaut village of Lessines, along the Dender, this piece of industrial history is rusting: a ship loader used for loading crushed stone on the boats.
West Flanders The failed Ypres-Comines Canal Excavation works of the Ypres-Comines canal started in 1864. The canal would realize a connection between the Yser River and the Leie River. However, landslides at the ridge in Hollebeke soon threw a spanner in the works.
Hainaut Ronquières inclined plane The Ronquières Inclined Plane spans 68 meters and thus replaces sixteen locks on the canal between Brussels and Charleroi.
Belgium Strépy-Thieu boat lift Twenty years after construction started, the Strépy-Thieu boat lift lifted the first boats. Until 2016, it was the largest ship lift in the world.
Hauts-de-France Fontinettes boat lift The Fontinettes boat lift in Arques, France, bridges a height difference of 13 meters on the Neufossé canal, which connects the Lys river and the Aa.
Hainaut Boat Lifts on the Canal du Centre The four historic boat lifts on the Center Canal in Hainaut overcome a height difference of 68 meters between the river basins of the Meuse and the Scheldt in Belgium.
Germany The world's largest historic warehouse complex In the German port city of Hamburg, a complex of neo-Gothic brick warehouses, the Speicherstadt, was built on islands in the Elbe between 1883 and 1927.
6 remnants of the Battle of Berlin The fierce Battle of Berlin was the final fight at the end of World War II. The bloody confrontation, from mid-April to early May 1945, brought the Nazi regime to its knees and ended World War II.