Memorials

Dedicated to the inventor of the paint roller.

Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, built this town immediately after Teddy Roosevelt’s death in 1919.

Decades before the Salem Witch Trials, two Connecticut women were executed for alleged witchcraft.

The histories of modern Chinese literature and anti-Japanese resistance collide in this Shanghai park.

Only the original archway remains from the building where a false cry of "fire" started a panic that claimed more than 70 lives on Christmas Eve in 1913.

A modest statue dedicated to Pierre Bayle, a young military drummer who willingly fought and died for his beloved France.

A monument commemorating the lives lost when a plane crashed into Mount Macedon in 1948.

Dedicated to "the father of U.S. life insurance."

The burial place of this Tasmanian Aboriginal woman is a memorial that remembers the atrocities of colonialism.

Built to commemorate the lives of hopeful emigrants who died on a journey from Scotland to Australia.

In 1927, a biplane disappeared while attempting to complete the first non-stop transatlantic flight between Paris and New York City. This memorial stands at the last place it was seen.

Near the summit of Mount Washington, a stone monument remembers a life lost to one of the mountain's infamous storms.

Dedicated to an airmail pilot who never let go of his important payload.

Brass plaques embedded in pavement preserve the memories of those who lost their lives at the hands of Nazis during World War II.

Designed as a reminder of one of the darkest moments in Austrian history.

The monument is inscribed, "To Sagamore John and those Mystic Indians Whose Bones Lie Here”.

Prayers and messages of hope decorate the ceramic tiles of this pavilion.