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Ronald Ross Memorial
Kolkata, India

Ronald Ross Memorial

A monument to the British doctor who connected mosquitoes to malaria.
Toledo, Ohio

Art Tatum Celebration Column

A 30-foot stack of piano keys memorializes one of the greatest keys players in jazz history.
The memorial
Lincoln, England

Lincoln Tank Memorial

The world's first military tank was designed in this English city amid the stalemate of WWI trench warfare.
RIP Steve the Security Bot.
robots

The Memorial Honoring the Robot That Drowned Itself

RIP Steve.
Eric Grundhauser July 19, 2017
Exercise Tiger Memorial
Torcross, England

Exercise Tiger Memorial

A disastrous D-Day rehearsal was relatively unknown until this sunken tank was discovered 40 years later.
Shep's final resting place.
Broomfield, Colorado

Shep the Broomfield Turnpike Dog

The final resting spot of the Colorado Transportation Department's beloved unofficial mascot.
A statue of the the U.K.'s first jet aeroplane in Lutterworth where it was produced.
Coventry, England

Frank Whittle Memorials

Monuments and plaques commemorate the local man whose invention shrunk the world.
Washington, D.C.

Lincoln Memorial Undercroft

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.
The Isaac Knight Memorial in Evansville.
Evansville, Indiana

Isaac Knight Memorial

A tribute to a 13-year-old boy who was kidnapped in 1793 and escaped over two years later.
Light the signal!
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L.A. Will Light the Bat-Signal to Honor Adam West

The iconic spotlight will honor the late actor's role as the "Bright Knight."
Eric Grundhauser June 15, 2017
Washington, D.C.

Churchill and Mandela Call and Response

When it comes to handsignals (and colonialism) rock always beats scissors.
A receding field of wheat memorialized in bronze.
Washington, D.C.

Holodomor Memorial

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.
The Tsunami Memorial
Hambantota, Sri Lanka

Tsunami Memorial at Yala National Park

Only the foundation remains of the rest stop building that was hit by three large tsunami waves, killing 47 visitors.
The statue of a frail girl is a tribute to the millions of children who perished.
Kyiv, Ukraine

Holodomor Victims Memorial

The haunting complex honors the millions of Ukrainians who died in the forced famine under Soviet rule.
Kees Moeliker, emceeing Dead Duck Day in 2016.
animals

Happy Dead Duck Day

For the past 22 years, Kees Moeliker has commemorated the perverse death of one particular duck.
Cara Giaimo June 5, 2017
<em>Les Fantômes</em>, Paul Landowski's WWI memorial sculpture.
wwi

The WWI Memorial That Refuses to Glorify War

There are countless monuments to the Great War in France, but Paul Landowski's "Les Fantômes" is unlike any other.
Winnie Lee May 29, 2017
Washington, D.C.

Daguerre Monument

Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.
Upper Big Branch Miners Memorial.
Whitesville, West Virginia

Upper Big Branch Miners Memorial

A memorial in coal country commemorates the victims of an all-too-preventable mining disaster.