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

Ludford Corner

LUDFORD CORNER This is the world-famous type locality for the Ludlow Bone Bed in which the fragmented remains of primitive fish are abundant. It marks the beginning of a change in this...

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Pioneer in the Work of Hybridizing, Selecting, and Improving the Potato

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF ROBERT FENN V.M.H. ONE OF THOSE UNASSUMING WORKERS BY WHOM THE WHOLE WORLD BENEFITS. HE WAS THE PIONEER IN THE WORK OF HYBRIDIZING, SELECTING AND IMPROV- ING...

    Birthplace of Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert Sinatra The voice Born here at 415 Monroe Street December 12th 1915

      Bobsled

      BOBSLED (CIRCA 1936) AWARDED TO 11 YEAR OLD BOB KISTLER FOR TOP MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION SALES DONATED IN 2015 BY THE KISTLER FAMILY HOLIMONT MEMBERS SINCE 1968

        Maria Callas

        Maria Callas was born in this hospital on December 2, 1923. These halls heard for the first time the musical notes of her voice. A voice which has conquered the world. To this great interpreter...

          Welcome to Wonderland

            Japanese Attack, Goleta

            Submitted by @oranv

              Greer Hill

              IN 1939-40 A FORD CAR AND ITS WHEELS HELPED GIVE BIRTH TO' SKIING ON GREER HILL, THE ROPE TOW THAT WAS INSTALLED PAVED THE WAY FOR ELLICOTTVILLE AS A SKI DESTINATION. THIS WHEEL SAT IN THE WOODS...

                City of Navato Amphitheater Park

                Submitted by @jqmcd.

                  Newton's Apple Tree Monash University

                  NEWTON'S APPLE Newton's Apple tree, the Flower of Kent variety, was planted in 1975 and is a cutting from the original tree from which Sir Isaac Newton reportedly observed an apple fall, prompting...

                    Connell Motor Company

                      Station A, Auburn

                      HISTORICAL LANDMARK P. O. FIRST MAIL SERVICE -1849 FIRST PO. ESTB. JULY 21. 1853 DAILY MAIL SERVICE JUNE 1888 P. O. CONSOLIDATED DEC. 30. 1919 STATION A -- HERE SINCE LATE 1870 COMMUNITY...

                        The American Red Cross and the Johnstown Flood

                        Submitted by @stuherrm.

                          Johnstown Flood

                          Submitted by @stuherrm.

                            Cambria Iron Company

                            Submitted by @stuherrm.