Memorials

Young Emmett Till's tragic story, which sparked America's civil rights movement, is retold near the site where it occurred.

The only 'battle' in the Toledo War between Michigan and Ohio set the stage for a persistent state rivalry.

These stained-glass windows are all that remains of a building that was the target of one of the biggest explosions in London after World War II.

A famed admiral left behind this 17th-century house key when he joined the British Navy.

This haunting monument honors the victims of 9/11.

A sculpture of a woman so beautiful she got arrested for it.

This large garden vase urn has nothing to do with the seventh U.S. President—it was designed by one landscape designer to honor another landscape designer's contributions to the National Mall.

This trailside hut was built in the late 1930s as a memorial to a young hiker.

A helicopter memorial commemorating what was once the only way to access this West Berlin exclave.

An eerie fountain commemorating the death of a boy that sparked a small war in the 19th century.

This site was a school and a center of Japanese-American life before internment.

Harry Houdini plunged into the Charles River and performed one of his escape acts here in 1908.

A bronze sculpture dedicated to a historic labor dispute in the U.S. automotive industry.

Dedicated to the victims of a tragic ferry disaster in Goa.

An ingenious way to immortalize the inventor of universal time.

A eight-foot-tall statue resides in the heart of Pennsylvania anthracite coal country.

This eerie sculpture overlooks what was known as the Road of Bones under Joseph Stalin.

This war memorial commemorates some of the world's first paratroopers.