Memorials

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.

In memory of the 110 victims of ValuJet Flight 592 that crashed in the Everglades.

This poignant WWI memorial looks like a lighthouse 100 miles from the sea.

A giant gleaming memorial named for a coal miner who gave his life to the pits.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

In an arboretum with hundreds of memorials to the fallen, this one might be the most poignant.

A memorial to the 1913 tragedy that helped protect the workers of the future.

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

One of the great math minds of the 17th century is underfoot in this 900 year old Dutch church.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

A plaque marks the spot on the bridge where one of the first elephants in the U.S., Little Bet, was gunned down.

This spire on an Austrian mountain is wrapped around a long spiral slide and has the world's tallest wooden observation deck.

A monument to the 17,000 Chinese who worked and died to build Canada's Pacific Railway.

This pyramid in southern Sweden houses the remains of an eccentric nobleman, who spent his life doing whatever he felt like doing.

This massive marble memorial was built bit by bit either out of devotion or spite, but at the expense of the surrounding town.