Open air museum in the Solomon Island

While the Solomon Islands is mostly known as an eco-tourism haven for outdoor adventurers, it is a popular destination for history buffs

because it played host to World War Two's bloodiest and longest campaign.

Barney’s collection is known as the Peter Joseph WWII Museum – named after Peter Joseph Palatini, the American soldier whose dog tag was the first to be discovered. Nearly 38,000 soldiers were killed in the Solomon Islands between 1942 and 1945, and the campaign proved to be a major turning point in the Pacific War with the Japanese troops’ retreat. Visitors can tour battle sites, pay their respects at American and Japanese war memorials, and approach abandoned relics, including an American Stuart tank, Japanese cannons and US fighter plane. Source: dailymail.co.uk and traveladventures.org