Memorials

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

This simple gravestone remembers a pig who single-hoofedly raised $19,000,000 for the Navy.

A desperate final message left by a POW on the run serves as a memorial for himself and the 97 that died with him.

A gruesome memorial for those lost in this area during the Khmer Rouge genocide.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

An English cenotaph honoring an American feminist icon.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

Stone monument honoring a town founder has a witch-boot shaped stain and a curse to go with it.

A plaque at the lighthouse where Frederick Valentich made his last radio contact before he vanished without a trace.

The world's first experimental nutritionist is memorialized as the "Hippocrates of naval medicine."

Memorial to the Titanic engineers that died working to hold back the sea.

This small Irish village suffered the greatest loss of life when the Titanic sank.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

A quiet marker in memory of local men and women lost in WWI.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

Tribute to the famous Notre Dame football coach who died in a plane crash.

"Drunken ship" sculpture memorializing the French poet in the city where he died.