Memorials

A memorial marks the spot where a plane crash killed several United Nations members on a peace mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Special benches that play Chopin's music are scattered throughout his native city.

This memorial depicts the unlikely team that won England the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy.

At an isolated roadside rest area stands a monument marking where famous Western star Tom Mix died in 1940.

The remains of 50,000 World War I soldiers rest under a towering arch overlooking the Alpine battlefields.

The first memorial dedicated solely to the Black troops who fought for the Union.

Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.

Colombia’s only monument erected to mark the end of slavery in the former Republic of New Granada.

This tremendous trout welcomes visitors to a northern Michigan town with a rich fishing history.

A harrowing sculpture commemorates the four people shot down during the workers strike of 1842.

The mass grave of the 27 victims of the "Vampire of Hanover."

This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.

A living memorial to the trees London lost during the Great Storm of 1987.

A lonely stone-sided terminal stands next to a grass airstrip on Michigan's Leelanau Peninsula.

A monument to the one-armed geologist who led the first documented expeditions through the Grand Canyon.