Memorials

This former lifeboat house now used by a funeral service was the site of a 19th-century boating tragedy.

Glasgow's own "tipsy" temperance monument.

The little tuxedo cat survived the trip, then languished in obscurity.

This small memorial is dedicated to the Perryville State Prison firefighters who perished fighting the Dude Fire in 1990.

A 1995 memorial acknowledges the tremendous contributions of Vietnamese refugees to Canada.

These Stolpersteine located in Spain honor Republican soldiers who perished at the hands of Nazis after the fall of France.

The first place where the scientific innovation known as radar was first demonstrated in Britain.

Down this Cracovian street resides a plaque with a stark message about the city's air pollution.

This statue has a painful history, but activists have since recontextualized it as a way to educate visitors about the dangers posed by fascist regimes.

Near Belgrade, an ancient-looking sarcophagus serves as a World War I monument.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.

A monument to the migrants who cross the dangerous waters between North Africa and a tiny Italian island.

The cross-shaped memorial is filled with kitschy tributes to the late pop star.

Centuries later, the victims of Great Britain's greatest hysteria are finally being remembered.

Here, Father Agapius Honcharenko established his homestead, becoming the first nationally conscious Ukrainian to settle in the United States.

This garden is dedicated to a Portland cartoonist who specialized in dark humor.

A bronze tribute to a legendary Californian, the self-proclaimed "Emperor of the United States."