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Memorials

New York, New York

Strawberry Fields Memorial

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

San Francisco, California

Heroes Grove Memorial

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

Prague, Czechia

Jan Palach Memorial

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

Matfield Green, Kansas

Knute Rockne Memorial

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

Monument Arthur Rimbaud

Marseille, France

Monument Arthur Rimbaud

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

Montgomery, Alabama

Civil Rights Memorial

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

Mimizuka.

Mimizuka

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

London, England

Spencer Perceval Memorial

A place of remembrance for the Prime Minister that met a violent end.

The centerpiece of the Hartford Circus Fire Memorial, where the middle tent post stood.

Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford Circus Fire Memorial

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

Jim Thorpe Monument in Jim Thorpe, PA

Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania

Jim Thorpe Monument

An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

Atomic Bomb Dome

Hiroshima, Japan

Hiroshima Peace Memorial

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

The Wrigley Memorial as seen from the gardens. (Photograph by Jeremias Paul)

Avalon, California

Wrigley Memorial and Botanical Garden

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.