Memorials

A war memorial dedicated to the Free French Naval forces of World War II.

A quiet spot commemorating two naturalists who had to choose between love and the university at which they both taught.

The Italian revolutionary's legendary wife is portrayed on horseback waving a gun and holding her child in this memorial on the Janiculum.

Dedicated to the European Sinti and Roma peoples murdered during the Holocaust.

This grand memorial remembers the 20 members of the Los Angeles Times killed when the office was bombed.

A churchyard in Ardsley houses a memorial dedicated to the victims of England’s worst mining disaster.

A tower that pays homage to local sailors who perished under the waves.

Constructed in 1857, mourners used these towers to burn offerings of paper prayers and gifts for the afterlife.

This platform is now a memorial dedicated to those who were deported during the Holocaust.

Outside San Francisco lies a small clown cemetery and memorial.

A memorial dedicated to the victims of the Columbine High School shootings.

A monument to a 19th-century Irish woman whose murder inspired several literary works.

Austrian and Germans who died on British soil during World War I and II are buried here.

This memorial honors a village that was destroyed during a 2015 earthquake.

Set amid the remains of a secret WWII airfield, this barn was preserved as a memorial to Allied agents who parachuted into Europe.

The scattered debris of a T-33 Canadian naval jet crash from 1963 now stands as a memorial.

This garden memorial marks the site where 12-year-old Tamir Rice was fatally shot by the Cleveland Police Department.

The site of the notorious Camp Sumter Prison is now a peaceful memorial.