18 Tributes to Traitors

We'll never forget these great betrayals.

by Holyn Thigpen , Community Editor

18 Places

Sometimes, a person or group’s actions are so reprehensible—so utterly disrespectful of the powers that be—that the label of “traitor” marks them long after they’ve left this earth. For these deserters and double-crossers of yore, there’s an ironic silver lining to being so widely despised: becoming eternally commemorated for it.

New London, Connecticut

Annual Burning of Benedict Arnold

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.

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Murshidabad, India

Namak Haram Deorhi

Known as the "Traitor's Gate."

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London, England

Traitors' Gate

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

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Battle, England

The Oldest Guy Fawkes Effigy

Every fifth of November, effigies of Guy Fawkes are thrown onto bonfires across Great Britain. But this Guy has managed to survive his fiery fate for almost 300 years.

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Prague, Czechia

The Heydrich Terror Memorial

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

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Tarpeian Rock

In the early Roman Empire, people deemed traitors and criminals were tossed to their deaths from this rock.

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Bruges, Belgium

Smedenpoort Skull

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

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New York, New York

The Wertheim Study

This study room in the New York Public Library saw the creation of one of contemporary America's greatest traitors.

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Manila, Philippines

Paco Park Cemetery

The cemetery was built for the Spanish colonial elite, but its most famous residents were all buried in unmarked graves.

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London, England

William Wallace Memorial

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

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Fontaine de la Croix-du-Trahoir

Executions were once held near this beautiful 18th-century fountain.

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New York, New York

The Hangman's Elm

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

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Telouet, Morocco

Kasbah Telouet

A mud brick kasbah with a history of lavishness and traitorship.

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Budapest, Hungary

Péter Mansfeld Monument

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

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Stillwater, New York

Boot Monument

A monument to the military service of America's greatest traitor refuses to even name him.

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Tomb of Antenor

The tomb of the mythological founder of Padua is not hidden in some obscure crypt, but stands right in the middle of the city square.

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Winnipeg, Manitoba

Louis Riel's Gravestone

Canada's accused-traitor-turned-folk-hero is buried under a red stone in a ring of his own.

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Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Old Slater Mill

The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

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