Plaques

The bridge's highly-contested plaque (once again) honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

The only international border marker within the United States.

The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

A plaque marking the famous abolitionist's birthplace often overlooked by visitors to the nearby Charles Sumner House.

A plaque installed underwater marks the fall of a royal family from an imagined parallel universe—part of a globe-spanning art project.

Plaque remembering the 18th century forced relocation of Acadians.

A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.

A stone plaque and a winking pub name are all that remain to remember the victims of deadly 1836 avalanche.

A simple plaque remembers a California island massacre that claimed more than 100 lives.

Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.