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

What's In A Name Mount Diablo State Park

    Mount Diablo Beacon

    Mount Diablo Beacon: EIM Left Dark by War, Lighted in Remembrance A large flashing light atop this rotunda once guided airplanes flying through the night skies of the Bay Area. Originally held...

    Mount Diablo Beacon: EIM Left Dark by War, Lighted in Remembrance A large flashing light atop this rotunda once guided airplanes flying through the night skies of the Bay Area. Originally held...

      FRANCES JEAN DENNING AND LT COL NORMAN EDWIN DENNING

      PLACED IN MEMORY OF FRANCES JEAN DENNING LT COL NORMAN EDWIN DENNING USMC MT DIABLO STATE PARK

      PLACED IN MEMORY OF FRANCES JEAN DENNING LT COL NORMAN EDWIN DENNING USMC MT DIABLO STATE PARK

        THE MOUNT DIABLO SURVEY MARKS

        THE MOUNT DIABLO SURVEY MARKS WITH ITS UNOBSTRUCTED VIEW, MOUNT DIABLO'S SUMMIT HAS LONG BEEN AN IMPORTANT REFERENCE POINT FOR LAND SURVEYS IN THE FAR WEST. IN 1851, COL. LEANDER RANSOM BEGAN...

        THE MOUNT DIABLO SURVEY MARKS WITH ITS UNOBSTRUCTED VIEW, MOUNT DIABLO'S SUMMIT HAS LONG BEEN AN IMPORTANT REFERENCE POINT FOR LAND SURVEYS IN THE FAR WEST. IN 1851, COL. LEANDER RANSOM BEGAN...

          Summit of Mount Diablo

            Mount Diablo Trail Through Time

              Blackhawk Ranch Quarry

                Site of Union Academy

                  In Living Memory of Kerri Roberts

                    Cabral House

                      Matthew Moody

                        They Passed This Way

                        They Passed This WayHome to thousands of men, women, and children, the Cherokee Nation once spread across parts of Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama. The 1830 Indian Removal Act...

                        They Passed This WayHome to thousands of men, women, and children, the Cherokee Nation once spread across parts of Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama. The 1830 Indian Removal...

                        • missouri
                        • native americans
                        • civil rights
                        • forced removal

                        Commemorating Harry S. Truman

                        CommemoratingHarry S. TrumanPresident of the United States1945-1953Harry S. Truman spoke from these Courthouse steps in 1934 and 1940 to New Madrid County citizens during his successful US Senate...

                        CommemoratingHarry S. TrumanPresident of the United States1945-1953Harry S. Truman spoke from these Courthouse steps in 1934 and 1940 to New Madrid County citizens during his successful US Senate...

                        • missouri
                        • harry truman
                        • us president

                        Pacific Soul

                        Pacific SoulJaume Plensa2017Commissioned by Bosa DevelopmentCopyright 2017 Jaume PlensaSubmitted by Chi C 

                        Pacific SoulJaume Plensa2017Commissioned by Bosa DevelopmentCopyright 2017 Jaume PlensaSubmitted by Chi C 

                        • san diego

                        El Camino Real

                        El Camino RealNew MadridCape GirardeauSte. GenevieveSt. LouisErected by the Missouri Daughters of the American RevolutionAD 1915

                        El Camino RealNew MadridCape GirardeauSte. GenevieveSt. LouisErected by the Missouri Daughters of the American RevolutionAD 1915

                        • missouri
                        • el camino real
                        • kings highway

                        Andrew H. Young

                          Newman Brothers Coffin Works

                          Submitted by @ellrbrown

                          Submitted by @ellrbrown

                            Early Canning Processes

                              The Garden Flower of Prosperity

                                Saw Mill River Daylighting - Species of the Watershed

                                All of these flora (plants) and fauna (animals) are at home here in the Saw Mill River watershed. Some linger around the tidal pool and mouth of the river here in Yonkers because they also live in...

                                All of these flora (plants) and fauna (animals) are at home here in the Saw Mill River watershed. Some linger around the tidal pool and mouth of the river here in Yonkers because they also live...

                                • yonkers
                                • larkin plaza
                                • saw mill river
                                • van der donck park
                                • fish
                                • 2009