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Burg Hohenzollern

Burg Hohenzollern is a spectacular 19th-century hilltop castle in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, functioning as the ancestr...

Germany 19TH Century Hilltop Swabia

8.8 Great

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Castillo de San Marcos

Castillo de San Marcos is the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States, built by Spain in St. Augustine, Flo...

Spanish USA Florida Colonial

8.6 Great

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Belgrade Fortress

Belgrade Fortress is a complex of fortifications at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers in Serbia, with origins...

Serbia Confluence Medieval Multi Era

8.3 Great

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Fort McHenry

Fort McHenry is a star-shaped harbor defense fort in Baltimore, Maryland, whose successful resistance to a British naval...

USA Coastal Maryland Star Fort

8.2 Great

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Fort Jefferson

Massive unfinished US coastal fortification begun in 1847 on Garden Key in the Dry Tortugas, Florida, one of the largest...

USA 19TH Century Coastal Florida

8.2 Great

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Fort Sumter

Fort Sumter is a sea fort in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, where Confederate forces fired the opening shots of the...

USA 19TH Century Coastal South Carolina

8.0 Great

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Fort Point

US Army fort completed in 1861 at the base of the Golden Gate in San Francisco, the only complete third-system masonry f...

USA California Coastal Civil War

8.0 Great

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Festung Ehrenbreitstein

Festung Ehrenbreitstein is a massive hilltop garrison fortress in Koblenz, Germany, rebuilt by the Prussian military bet...

Germany 19TH Century Hilltop Prussian

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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Fortezza di Bard

A 19th-century fortress in the Aosta Valley, Italy, rebuilt from 1830 after Napoleon ordered demolition of the original...

Austrian Italy 19TH Century Alpine

7.8 Good

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Oscarsborg Fortress

A Norwegian island fortress in the Oslofjord, built in 1845, renowned for sinking the German heavy cruiser Blücher durin...

19TH Century Coastal Norway Island

7.5 Good

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Devín Castle

Ruined castle at the confluence of the Danube and Morava rivers near Bratislava, Slovakia, with occupation layers spanni...

Confluence Medieval Slovakia Hilltop

7.5 Good

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Fort Pulaski

Civil War-era fort on Cockspur Island, Georgia, where Union forces first used rifled artillery in 1862 to breach its mas...

USA 19TH Century Coastal Civil War

7.5 Good

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Fort Laramie

Originally a fur-trading post established in 1834 in present-day Wyoming, it became a key US Army garrison and treaty si...

USA 19TH Century Wyoming Frontier

7.5 Good

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Fort Niagara

Strategic fort at the mouth of the Niagara River in New York, originally built by the French in 1726 and later held succ...

18TH Century USA New York Colonial

7.5 Good

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Fortress Hohenschwangau

Fortress Hohenschwangau is a 19th-century neo-Gothic palace in Bavaria, Germany, constructed between 1832 and 1836 by Ki...

Germany 19TH Century Medieval Hilltop

7.5 Good

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Fort Canning

Singapore hilltop fortification known as the site of the British Far East Command's operations room during the 1942 Japa...

19TH Century Singapore British Colonial

7.5 Good

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Fort Monroe

Largest stone fort ever built in the United States, constructed 1819–1834 at Old Point Comfort, Virginia, and garrisoned...

USA 19TH Century Coastal Virginia

7.3 Good

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Fort Vancouver

Hudson's Bay Company post established in 1824 on the Columbia River in present-day Washington State, the principal hub o...

USA 19TH Century Washington Frontier

7.2 Good

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Modlin Fortress

A large 19th-century polygonal fortress at the confluence of the Narew and Vistula rivers in Poland, begun by French eng...

Poland Confluence 19TH Century Napoleonic

6.8 Fair