Assassination

Evidence of a bullet that nearly killed King Charles I—or is it?

JFK's assassin rented a room in the boarding house in the weeks leading up to the 1963 shooting.

A trilingual monument marks the site of a Korean independence activist's assassination attempt on a Japanese prince in Taiwan.

This sculpture was made out of recycled guns that were turned in to the city.

This ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood was home to the civil rights icons and the site of a shocking assassination.

The final resting place of "Mother Kofi," a Black minister who was assassinated in the middle of a sermon.

In memory of the assassinated, now-canonized Salvadoran archbishop who is the namesake of nearby Romero Place.

In 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand spent his final night alive at this luxurious hotel.

This memorial to a murdered empress took 20 years to design, then spent 30 years hidden away in storage.

Initially built for a Chinese princess and sultana, this well was used to secretly assassinate some 200 Portuguese colonizers.

A small site dedicated to the memory of a local leader and the search for peace.

The 34th governor of Kentucky was sworn into office while on his deathbed after being shot outside the State House.

One of the five gates into the fortress of to Shaniwar Wada was renamed to commemorate the 10th Peshwa of the Maratha Empire.

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.