Memorials

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

A teddy bear sits on a chair watching the sunset from the mountaintop—just as the late Dan Clancy had done since childhood.

A mysterious plaque to the even more mysterious "Fr. Pat Noise," killed in "suspicious circumstances."

Stone slabs along the coast warn of Japan's tsunami-ravaged past, often marking the highest point of a wave's reach.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.

A tiny church remembers the Polish cavalrymen who charged their way into a Napoleonic victory.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

A beautiful memorial tells the story of a formerly enslaved woman whose kindness shaped a burgeoning city.

Thousands of slain Soviet soldiers are buried within the shadow of this enormous obelisk.

A stone circle on the slopes of a Caribbean volcano commemorates the leader of an anti-slavery uprising.

A simple tribute to the microscopic arachnid that gives its juices and its life to help make a speciality German cheese.

A Stalinist prison camp for the wives and children of men accused of betraying the Soviet state is now a memorial museum.

Hidden high on a remote mountain peak is a humbling and mysterious Vietnam War memorial.

The giant stump of the once towering cottonwood where Ute people held tribal meetings.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

An unsanctioned shrine that sprung up outside the late singer's home is causing a stir in London's Highgate neighborhood.

A colorful square marks the heart of the city's LGBTQ community.

A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.