Memorials

A heated sculpture pays tribute to an actor who loved hugs.

The site of Stockholm's last public execution.

A 14th-century church holds a unique monument to a German mathematician who dedicated his life to calculating the value of pi.

In 1932, Americans honored their first president's 200th birthday by planting trees.

A memorial commemorating the place where Truman gave the order to deploy the first nuclear bombs on Japan.

Dedicated to a legendary spiritual vision.

A memorial to the late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, who died at this location, along with seven others, in a plane crash in 2002.

In an effort to escape the horrors of slavery, one man mailed himself to freedom.

Three pristine alpine lakes named in memorial of an accident that resulted in three different plane crashes.

Recently celebrating its 25th anniversary, the garden opened in September 1997 to celebrate the men and women who have had the greatest impact on Key West.

Dedicated to the lives lost during a fatal stampede in the Nyamiha Station.

The Reagan Peace Garden at Eureka College features a chunk of the Berlin Wall.

Hungarian Jews were ghettoized during the Second World War, but little remains of the original wall that closed the Jewish people off from the rest of the city.

The final resting place of this rock icon has become a pilgrimage site for AC/DC fans.

Local folklore claims that this wall was not built for defense, but to provide labor during a time of famine.

Two stone markers honor the Nipmuc people who first settled here millennia ago.

On May 2, 1845, crowds gathered to watch a clown and four geese sail upstream in a bathtub. Then disaster struck.

This site pays tribute to the life of an iconic local dog.