Memorials

Seeing her husband shot, she took up his banner and rallied the troops to attack repulsing the enemy with the cry, "Those with honor, follow me!"

A memorial for the victims of a plane crash that, at the time, was the deadliest plane disaster in American history.

In 1838, 859 Potawatomi Indians were forcibly removed from their village to begin a grueling march to Kansas. This location marks the first death.

A somber place of memory and reflection, that tells the story of Riga's Jewish community before and during World War II.

A children's mosaic in Limassol using deep-sea creature patterns to honor young lives lost across several genocides, including Cyprus’s own 1974 wounds.

An out-of-service tunnel and nearby remembrances recall the location of a deadly train crash in the New York City subway.

Pick up the receiver of this ordinary-looking phone booth and more than ten hours of voices, music, laughter and memories from the past come unexpectedly back through the line.

It memorializes America’s initial military response to the terrorist attacks on our country on September 11, 2001.

A small piece of Scotland sits in a park in Lower Manhattan.

These "antimonuments" confront the Mexican authorities by memorializing the most troubling events in the country's modern history.

The Branch Davidian compound known as the Mount Carmel Center became the site of one of the most controversial law enforcement operations in U.S. history.

A memorial to the deadliest terror attack during an unsettled period of Italy’s recent history.

Ayrton Senna Plaza is a beautifully curated park tucked inside the Ibirapuera Modelódromo in São Paulo, serving as a memorial dedicated to the legendary three-time Formula 1 champion.

A beautiful memorial to the 215 passengers and 14 crew members who perished in a 1998 plane crash.

This marble bugler pays a special tribute to local lives lost in World War I

The Friedrich Ebert Memorial in Heidelberg commemorates the first democratic head of state in German history.

An unofficial monument to the late King of Pop sits at the base of a Renaissance composer's statue

An empty bookshelf commemorates the books which were lost during the infamous event