Memorials

An unusual monument to a gentle giant who became a Kyrgyz hero.

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

Pictures tacked onto trees remember the more than 40,000 of Stalin's victims buried here in mass graves.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

Stelae-eyed stones greet visitors to a corner of Kirov Park.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

A long-overdue monument to the forgotten British men drafted into the coal mines during World War II.

In an isolated field near a dilapidated barn stands this chilling portrayal of the plight of the Nuba peoples of Sudan.

A monument to the two U.S. officers killed by North Korean troops while trying to trim a poplar tree.

This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.

The memorial gravesite of the young composer of China's national anthem.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

The worst flood disaster in Welsh history might have been a lot worse if it had not happened on movie night.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

A tribute to Richard Feynman is carved into the land he planned to see but never got to visit.

Three memorials honor the victims of the worst sports stadium disaster in Britain.

An unassuming tribute to engineer William Bald and the workers who built one of Europe's most scenic coastal roads.