Verdun, France

Ossuary of Douaumont containing the remains of an estimated 150,000 French and German soldiers.

Muslim section of the French war cemetery

Muslim section of the French war cemetery

The battlefield of Verdun as it is today

The trees can't be cut commercially because they have absorbed metal fragments from the ground and each year more shell fragments, bullet casings, rusted bayonets and barbed wire - as well as human skeletal remains - are pushed up by the soil or washed out by Autumn/Spring rains.