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Memorials

Peterloo Memorial.

Manchester, England

Peterloo Memorial

The city of Manchester quietly unveiled this tribute to a 19th-century massacre.

Cairn at Port Charcot

A chilly monument dedicated to the French explorer, Jean-Baptiste Charcot.

The statue of Wolfe Tone.

Dublin, Ireland

Wolfe Tone Statue

An enigmatic monument to the Irish revolutionary who plotted an uprising against British rule.

Memorial to Hector Vasyli on the southern abutment of the old Victoria Bridge in Brisbane.

Brisbane, Australia

Hector Vasyli Memorial

A nearly lost tribute to an 11-year-old boy killed during a World War I homecoming parade.

Peoria, Illinois

Peoria Holocaust Memorial

A collection of 11 million buttons illustrates the human toll of the Holocaust.

Memorial cross near the soldiers' graves.

Kristiansand, Norway

Executed Russian POWs' Memorial Graves

Five soviet prisoners of war were executed at this spot just days before the liberation of Norway.

The monument is defined by the circle of 32 rocks.

Edinburgh, Scotland

'The Stones of Scotland'

A poetic monument to the Scottish Parliament.

'L'approdo della Nave' ('The Ship Landing')

A galley-shaped memorial to the prisoners of an infamous fortress.

Francis Gary Powers Memorial

Pound, Virginia

Francis Gary Powers Memorial

A highway marker that honors a former spy plane pilot and local hero.

Martyrs' Memorial.

Stirling, Scotland

Martyrs' Memorial

A striking glass tribute to two sisters who suffered during Scotland's "Killing Time."

The memorial is below ground, and is slowly being overtaken by nature.

Gerald Lankester Harding's Burial Place

The 20th-century archaeologist was interred among the ruins of an ancient Roman city.

F-14 Grumman Memorial Park

Calverton, New York

F-14 Grumman Memorial Park

A tribute to the hard-working men and women of Grumman, who crafted F-14 fighter jets.

Charlotte Müller.

Göttingen, Germany

Charlotte Müller Statue

A beloved street vendor is memorialized outside a German train station.

This memorial was dedicated in 2000.

St Marys, West Virginia

Willow Island Disaster Memorial

A memorial honoring those who perished in one of the worst construction disasters in U.S. history.

Gauss-Weber Telegraph Memorial.

Göttingen, Germany

Gauss-Weber Telegraph Memorial

It commemorates one of the world's earliest telegraphs.

Belfast Titanic Memorial Garden.

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Belfast Titanic Memorial Garden

The only monument to name all of the passengers and crew who died on the RMS Titanic.

Vulcan Mine coal tipple.

New Castle, Colorado

Vulcan Mine

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.

The mass grave.

Flagstaff, Arizona

TWA-United Grand Canyon Collision Mass Grave

A mass grave for victims of an airline disaster that led to much-needed safety improvements for commercial flights.