Memorials

Resting place and mausoleum of the founder and first president of Turkey.

When a mechanical flaw rewrote aviation rules.

Memorial full of frescoes, in the middle of nowhere.

The site of Minnesota’s worst mining disaster, now reclaimed by nature.

The only World War II memorial in the United States dedicated to veterans of the former Soviet Union.

A cynical face-off exposing the cost of war.

A surprising relic of WWII, sitting boldly in a Marseille street.

This monument commemorates NASA’s astronaut training in northern Iceland.

An obelisk commemorates historic floods that hit two towns along the Red River of the North.

A small memorial dedicated to a man purportedly killed when a meteor the size of an SUV crashed into him.

A statue of the forgotten American who helped transform Hokkaido and Japan.

This site used to mark the heart of the EU—now it's crowned with a striking glass sculpture and a buried secret underneath.

A remembrance of the local Scottish victims of the Lockerbie Bombing Incident in the now-restored neighborhood.

In the middle of a wonderful recreational park, this memorial reminds us of the dark past of this place.

This controversial memorial to the Titanic's captain stands in a peculiar place.

Memorial commemorating the deadliest landslide in U.S. history.

An American crash site from WWII is marked deep in a Swedish forest.

A Manhattan tombstone honors a popular 19th-century heroine, now long forgotten.