A gigantic map of all the cool plaques in the world. A project of 99% Invisible.

Ligonier Valley School District, Pennsylvania Game Commission, Road versus Rail

Submitted by @askceil

Submitted by @askceil

  • doodlebug

Holy Trinity Parish

  Submitted by @askceil

  Submitted by @askceil

    Powerful Glaciers Sculpted the Visible Landscape

    During the last ice age over ten thousand years ago, huge glaciers in the Sierra Nevada carved out many lakes in the land surrounding Lake Tahoe. Glaciers moved down the V-shaped canyons on Lake...

    During the last ice age over ten thousand years ago, huge glaciers in the Sierra Nevada carved out many lakes in the land surrounding Lake Tahoe. Glaciers moved down the V-shaped canyons on...

      Welcome to Angora Lookout

      Years before there was an established lookout, Forest Service fire spotters used Angora Ridge to watch for blazes in the Tahoe Basin forests. Prior to this lookout being built, wildfires burned...

      Years before there was an established lookout, Forest Service fire spotters used Angora Ridge to watch for blazes in the Tahoe Basin forests. Prior to this lookout being built, wildfires...

        Baker Millennium House

          Elvis Presley Fight Scene

          Submitted by @Schreiberland

          Submitted by @Schreiberland

          • elvis
          • fight
          • karate

          National and University's Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina

          National LibrarySarajevoBosnia and HercegovinaEnglish plaque accompanying the Bosnian which reads: NA OVOM SU MJEsTU SRPSKI ZLOČINCI U NOĆI 25/26 8 1992. GODINE ZAPALILI NACIONALNUI UNIVERZITETSKU...

          National LibrarySarajevoBosnia and HercegovinaEnglish plaque accompanying the Bosnian which reads: NA OVOM SU MJEsTU SRPSKI ZLOČINCI U NOĆI 25/26 8 1992. GODINE ZAPALILI NACIONALNUI UNIVERZITETSKU...

          • #neverforget

          Moving to the Minerals

          Submitted by Matt Schultz

          Submitted by Matt Schultz

            Captain William Moore Cabin

              Veterans' Memorial, Albany

              • eaten
              • celebrated
              • danced
              • magnificent building
              • wwi
              • 1932
              • meyers

              Pinecote Pavilion

              Dedicated on November 23, 1986, the Pinecote Pavilion was built by the family of L.O. Crosby, Jr. (1907-1978) as a memorial to his legacy. Crosby was a noted forestry figure, philanthropist, and...

              Dedicated on November 23, 1986, the Pinecote Pavilion was built by the family of L.O. Crosby, Jr. (1907-1978) as a memorial to his legacy. Crosby was a noted forestry figure, philanthropist, and...

              • mississippi
              • architecture
              • arboretum

              Picayune Colored High School

              Picayune's first public high school for African Americans was established here in 1918. John Prentiss (J.P.) Johnson served as principal from 1943 to 1950, when a new school was constructed at...

              Picayune's first public high school for African Americans was established here in 1918. John Prentiss (J.P.) Johnson served as principal from 1943 to 1950, when a new school was constructed...

              • mississippi
              • african american
              • education

              Famous Prize Fight

              FAMOUS PRIZE FIGHTWON BY JOHN MORRISSEY OVER 'YANKEE' SULLIVAN IN THIS AREA ON OCT. 5, 1653, LASTED 37 ROUNDS AND WA WITNESSED BY MORE THAN 3000 PERSONSSubmitted by @jherskowitz

              FAMOUS PRIZE FIGHTWON BY JOHN MORRISSEY OVER 'YANKEE' SULLIVAN IN THIS AREA ON OCT. 5, 1653, LASTED 37 ROUNDS AND WA WITNESSED BY MORE THAN 3000 PERSONSSubmitted by @jherskowitz

              • famous prize fight
              • fight
              • prize fight
              • 1653

              The Class of 1925 Courtyard

                In Memory of Gertrude Thompson

                ON THE 15TH DAY OF APRIL,1978 5:20 PM. MRS. GERTRUDE THOMPSON WAS FATALLY INJURED BY A MOTORCAR 10 FEET NORTH OF THIS SPOT THIS PLAQUE IS GIVEN TO THE EARTH TO MEMORIALIZE HER TILL ETERNITY. HER...

                ON THE 15TH DAY OF APRIL,1978 5:20 PM. MRS. GERTRUDE THOMPSON WAS FATALLY INJURED BY A MOTORCAR 10 FEET NORTH OF THIS SPOT THIS PLAQUE IS GIVEN TO THE EARTH TO MEMORIALIZE HER TILL ETERNITY. HER...

                • given to the earth
                • till eternity
                • her friends

                City of Alameda Civic Center Parking Structure

                  Joaquin Miller, "Poet of the Sierras"

                  JOAQUIN MILLER, "POET OF THE SIERRAS," RESIDED ON THESE ACRES, NAMED BY HIM "THE HIGHTS," FROM 1886 TO 1913. IN THIS BUILDING, KNOW AS THE ABBEY, HE WROTE "COLUMBUS" AND OTHER POEMS. THE...

                  JOAQUIN MILLER, "POET OF THE SIERRAS," RESIDED ON THESE ACRES, NAMED BY HIM "THE HIGHTS," FROM 1886 TO 1913. IN THIS BUILDING, KNOW AS THE ABBEY, HE WROTE "COLUMBUS" AND OTHER POEMS. THE...

                  • moses genera...
                  • joaquin miller

                  Richmond Shipyards

                    Site of the First Public Hanging Area and Graveyard

                      Pompeiin Villa

                      The last remaining landmark of the "dream city" planned by the founder of Port Arthur, railroad magnate Arthur E. Stilwell (1859-1928). The house was built in 1900 as the winter resort home of...

                      The last remaining landmark of the "dream city" planned by the founder of Port Arthur, railroad magnate Arthur E. Stilwell (1859-1928). The house was built in 1900 as the winter resort home...

                      • texas
                      • landmark
                      • architecture