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Suomenlinna

Suomenlinna is a historic sea fortress complex located just off the coast of Helsinki, Finland. Constructed beginning in...

18TH Century Swedish Finland Helsinki

8.8 Great

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Hwaseong Fortress

Hwaseong Fortress is a significant 18th-century walled city constructed in Suwon, South Korea by King Jeongjo of the Jos...

18TH Century South Korea Walled City Joseon

8.8 Great

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Galle Fort

The Galle Fort is a remarkably preserved coastal fortress located in Sri Lanka. Constructed by the Dutch East India Comp...

Coastal Dutch Colonial 17TH Century

8.8 Great

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Castillo de San Marcos

The Castillo de San Marcos is a masonry star fort located in St. Augustine, Florida, constructed by the Spanish Empire b...

Spanish USA Florida Colonial

8.6 Great

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Elmina Castle

Elmina Castle, located in present-day Ghana, was constructed by the Portuguese in 1482 and is the oldest surviving Europ...

Colonial Portuguese Ghana 15TH Century

8.5 Great

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Cape Coast Castle

Cape Coast Castle is a historical fortress located on the coast of Ghana, originally built by the Swedes in the 17th cen...

Coastal Colonial 17TH Century Ghana

8.5 Great

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Fort McHenry

Fort McHenry is an early 19th-century star fort situated on the Patapsco River in Baltimore, Maryland, designed to defen...

USA Coastal Maryland Star Fort

8.2 Great

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Gjirokastër Castle

Gjirokastër Castle is a prominent medieval and Ottoman-era fortress that dominates the skyline of Gjirokastër, Albania....

18TH Century Ottoman Hilltop Albania

8.2 Great

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Fort Jefferson

Fort Jefferson is a massive, unfinished coastal fortification located on Garden Key in the Dry Tortugas, approximately 7...

USA 19TH Century Coastal Florida

8.2 Great

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Fort Sumter

Fort Sumter is a sea fortification constructed on an artificial island at the entrance to Charleston Harbor in South Car...

USA 19TH Century Coastal South Carolina

8.0 Great

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Brimstone Hill Fortress

Brimstone Hill Fortress is a well-preserved colonial-era military fortification located on the island of St. Kitts in th...

18TH Century British Colonial Hilltop

8.0 Great

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Fort Ticonderoga

Fort Ticonderoga is an 18th-century star fort at the southern tip of Lake Champlain, New York, originally built by Franc...

USA New York Colonial Revolutionary

7.8 Good

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Fort Mackinac

Fort Mackinac is a former British and American military outpost situated on Mackinac Island in Lake Huron, Michigan. The...

18TH Century USA Colonial Island

7.5 Good

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Fort Niagara

Fort Niagara is a historic military fortification located at the mouth of the Niagara River near its intersection with L...

18TH Century USA New York Colonial

7.5 Good

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Real Felipe Fortress

The Real Felipe Fortress is an 18th-century Spanish colonial military complex located in the port city of Callao, Peru....

18TH Century Coastal Colonial Peru

7.5 Good

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Fort William Henry

Fort William Henry was a British military fort at the southern end of Lake George in present-day New York. Built during...

18TH Century USA New York Colonial

7.3 Good

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Fort Cornwallis

Fort Cornwallis is a coastal fortification in George Town on Penang Island, Malaysia. The British East India Company est...

18TH Century British Colonial Malaysia

7.3 Good

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Fort Mifflin

Fort Mifflin is an eighteenth-century fortification on Mud Island in the Delaware River near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....

18TH Century USA Revolutionary War Pennsylvania

6.8 Fair

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Fort Frederica

Fort Frederica was a British colonial settlement and fortification on St. Simons Island, Georgia, established by James O...

18TH Century USA British Colonial

6.8 Fair

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Fort Marlborough

Fort Marlborough is a British colonial fort in Bengkulu, on the southwestern coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The East India...

18TH Century British Indonesia Colonial

6.5 Fair