Memorials

This small Estonian hill is covered in hand-made twig crosses that are said to bring good luck.

The only remaining piece of hull of the most decorated US ship of WWII is this giant name plate.

This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

A massive explosion that leveled hundreds of buildings in the city of Leiden is remembered by a waterside plaque.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

This odd stone memorial remembers a loyal dog who offended the rail barons with his speed and saved his master with his pee.

The 25th President's marble casket can be visited in this classical Ohio tomb.

The right to a full beard is honored by the grave of a man who was attacked and jailed due to his facial hair.

A concrete block embedded with thousands of pulled teeth was created by a local dentist to memorialize his dog.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

This former coal mine has been turned into a sprawling modern art complex.

Two distorted Romanesque columns hold aloft a mine cart in honor of laborers who died during WWII.

A tiny plaque hidden miles into the Washington wilderness is all that remains to honor a shipwreck that left 18 people dead.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.