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Battery Steele

Peaks Island, Portland, ME

Built during World War II, Battery Steele is a long concrete coastal-defense battery now covered in graffiti and surrounded by island trails. Visitors can walk through portions of its dark, bunker-like corridors, making it one of the more atmospheric ruins near Portland.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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