Claire Phillips was a smalltown girl from Michigan who wound up running a spy ring for the United States in the Japan-occupied Philippines during World War II.One of the most daring spies in World War II, Claire Phillips joined the Philippine resistance movement using her many talents to extract secrets from the Japanese and aid the Allies. Born Claire Maybelle Snyder in Michigan in 1907, she moved with her family to Portland, Ore.

A constant and heavy mist hides lush treasures in these rare and magnificent forests in the clouds.Flickr/John LeszczynskiA cloud forest in Sierra Nororiental de Puebla, along the east coast of Mexico, in 2016. A cloud forest looks like something out of a Tolkien novel. Also known as a water forest, these uncanny woods feature thick blankets of mosses, weaving ferns, and air plants, amidst a heavy-hanging fog deep in the mountains.

Built by an eccentric arms dealer on the isolated Pollepel Island, the Scottish-influenced Bannerman Castle looks like something out of a fairytale — but it has a spooky mythology all its own.About 60 miles north of New York City, on the supposedly haunted shores of Pollepel Island in the Hudson River, sits the ruins of a 20th-century fortress known as Bannerman Castle. Originally built in the early 1900s as an army surplus arsenal, the castle was abandoned after it was damaged in a series of fires and explosions.

Saddam Hussein spent billions on lavish palaces throughout Iraq outfitted with expensive ornamentation, swimming pools, ballrooms, and murals of the dictator. The former presidential palace of Saddam Hussein, occupied by the Coalition Forces Land Component Command, Baghdad, Iraq, circa 2003. David K. Dismukes/U.S. Army/Getty Images A view of the conference hall in the former Republican Presidential Palace, 2011. Ali Al-Saad/Getty Images Iraqis Loot The Presidential Palace shortly after the U.

After surrendering to Japanese forces, Frazier was forced to embark on the harrowing 65-mile Bataan Death March in the Philippines when he was just 17-years-old.FacebookGlenn Frazier passed away on Sept. 15, 2018. Glenn Frazier, a celebrated World War II veteran and prisoner of war, passed away on Sept. 16, 2018, at the age of 94. Frazier joined the U.S Army on July 3, 1941 when he was only 16-years-old, and requested that he be stationed in the Philippines.