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

Nihonbashi Bridge

Nihonbashi bridge was built in 1603 and is the origin point of the five major roads designated by the shogunate. The present bridge was built in 1911. The original zero milestone was...

    Glenn Hall Playground

      Varenna S. Giorgio

        Gonzales

        Submitted by @jqmcd

          S. S. Moyie

          S. S. MOYIE CANADA This elegant sternwheeler is the oldest intact passenger steam vessel of its type in the world. The machinery and the steel frames of its hull were built by the Bertram Engine...

            Dedicated To The World’s Mariners

            Dedicated To The World’s Mariners 10th December 1895 Submitted by @paulori

              St. Dunstan in the East

              Welcome to St Dunstan in the East A church was first built on the site of this garden in Saxon times. It was restored by St Dunstan in 950 AD and then rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren after...

              • 950
              • 1697
              • saxon

              Arlington

              Early pioneers settled in the Arlington area around 1830. A depot, called Withe Station, was established in 1856. The land was given by General Samuel Jackson Hays. In 1872 his land holdings were...

              • shelby county
              • tennessee

              Sarah Franklin Bache

              Submitted by Lisa Hiltbrand

                Benny Binion

                  Battle of Island No. 10

                  In February 1862, General John Pope concentrated an army in southeast Missouri for the purpose of capturing New Madrid and Island No. 10. Federal troops cut a channel twelve miles long to...

                  • missouri
                  • civil war

                  Van der Donck Park

                  VAN DER DONCK PARK   AT LARKIN PLAZA RESTORED 2012   MIKE SPANO MAYOR   CHUCK LESNICK, COUNCIL PRESIDENT   CHRISTOPHER A. JOHNSON, COUNCILMAN, 1ST DISTRICT WILSON TERRERO, COUNCILMAN, 2ND DISTRICT...

                  • yonkers
                  • van der donck park
                  • larkin plaza

                  Saw Mill River Daylighting - Fish Passage

                  Saw Mill River DaylightingA Fish Passage   What looks like a ladder to the right of where you are standing really IS a ladder-an Alaskan Steep Pass fish ladder. It was placed here to allow...

                  • yonkers
                  • larkin plaza
                  • saw mill river
                  • van der donck park
                  • fish

                  Saw Mill River Daylighting - Moving Through Yonkers

                  Moving Through Yonkers   From Sail to Steam In colonial times, the Dutch and English settlers in Yonkers moved their merchandise up and down the Hudson River under sail. In 1807 Robert...

                  • yonkers
                  • larkin plaza
                  • saw mill river
                  • van der donck park
                  • rail
                  • trains
                  • 1911

                  Dedicated to all Yonkers veterans

                  Dedicated to all Yonkers veterans past, present, and future that served to make this country free Yonkers Central Committee of Veterans Organizations2012Submitted by @lampbane

                  • yonkers
                  • philipse manor
                  • 2012