Memorials

Somber memorial to the May 10, 1933, book-burning which took place on this spot.

The initials "GW" mark where one of Scotland's most important Protestant martyrs was burned at the stake.

The Salvation Army's monument to those who lost their lives in a 1914 shipwreck near the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.

A sculpture in memory of a homeless man much loved by the city of Parma.

Dedicated to the five postal workers who died aboard the doomed ocean liner, this plaque was made from a spare propeller from the Titanic.

On a desolate hill overlooking McMurdo Station, a statue of the Virgin Mary stands inside a curved iron frame.

This memorial commemorates where a Japanese commander surrendered to Allied forces on September 3, 1945.

A NATO bombing took the lives of 16 civilians in 1999—the ruins remain in the center of Belgrade.

Local authorities nearly destroyed this mural before a viral video rallied international support to save it.

The last location where Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson played before their tragic deaths.

In memory of the assassinated, now-canonized Salvadoran archbishop who is the namesake of nearby Romero Place.

A stone marker dedicated to a Black veteran of the American Revolution who refused to leave his land near Walden Pond.

A memorial to an ill-fated Arctic expedition pursued by the U.S. Navy.

This modest site memorializes a World War II mission described without hyperbole as “the greatest raid of all.”

A memorial to 350 people burned at the stake for witchcraft.

A monument honoring 81 residents of this Scottish town who were executed for witchcraft in the 16th century.

Young Emmett Till's tragic story, which sparked America's civil rights movement, is retold near the site where it occurred.