Memorials

A live oak beside a Florida bike trail has become a shimmering, musical memorial.

This is the location of the U.S. Radium Corporation where the “Radium Girls” worked, became sickened by radiation poisoning, with many dying horrible deaths.

A granite memorial to three men swallowed by the Arctic—Andrée, Strindberg and Fraenkel—explorers that attempted one of the most ambitious (and disastrous) North Pole expeditions in history.

A series of markers along one side of an Amsterdam canal memorialize the Jewish residents from the other side who died in the Holocaust.

A suburban monument preserves the faces of twenty murdered Jewish boys and girls.

A large collection of irons and washing machines dedicated to the memory of a lost daughter.

A hauntingly beautiful grave commemorates love evermore.

Site of a massive 1991 ammunition depot explosion that marked a turning point in the Croatian War of Independence.

Across the old bridge in Taiama is a monument to two Americans killed in a war against British imperialism.

A memorial monument over the ruins of Sderot’s police station remembers the lives lost in the October 7th attack.

A symbolic cemetery in a suburban square marks the birthplace of Poland's WWII resistance movement.

A curious memorial to the Berlin Wall, German division, the war, and those who died at the wall.

A tiny airplane-shaped monument marks the story of Taiwan’s first civilian pilot and his fatal crash in 1934.

Scotland's claim to the prime meridian was laid 200 years prior to the one in Greenwich.

A thin golden line commemorates the deadliest terrorist attack in recent German history.

A silent forest in Latvia bears witness to a massacre.

A cave-turned-memorial church marking the site where civilians were killed during an 1814 uprising.