Plaques

It took 82 years and four different plaques to finally get the story right.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

This memorial honors the first British soldier killed by enemy action on home soil during World War I.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

A statue of the early navigator stands overlooking the land he first surveyed.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

At just 51 feet and 10 inches long, it's the shortest street in England.

The "shampooer of kings" who opened London's first curry cafe was a celebrity in the 19th century, but is all but forgotten now.

A small token of gratitude from freezing cold journalists who were given a warm haven while covering JFK's inauguration.

These experimental weapons brought World War II to Nebraska as well as 26 other U.S. states.

Joe Cocker's 1988 concert at this site in East Germany marked a changing sea tide that would eventually lead to reunification.

The smallest Mexican land grant in California was given, and then taken from, a 19th-century teacher and nurse.

The medieval home is still engraved with the symbol of the profession, an eye flanked by two axes.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

The home studio one of Britain's first independent record producers is also the site of a murder-suicide.

‘Bush the old fire dog died of poison July 5th, 1869. RIP.’

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.