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

Kabuki Springs & Spa

    Forsyth Park

    In the 1840s William Brown Hodgson conceived the idea of setting aside 10 acres of wooded land at this site for the development of Savannah's first recreational park. It was named for former...

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    THE GRANITE RAILWAY

    NATIONAL HISTORIC CIVIL ENGINEERING LANDMARK THE GRANITE RAILWAY DESIGNATED BY THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS 1976 THIS MARKER COMMEMORATES THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GROUND BREAKING...

      Shilo Inn

        Blue Star Memorial By-Way and WWI Centennial Memorial

          Mark Twain lived here

          Mark Twain lived here in the first years of the 20th Century. Plaque reads: In this house once lived Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), author of the beloved American classic The Adventures of...

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          • samuel clemens

          DER ANTIFASCHISTISCHE

          HIER WOHNTE DER ANTIFASCHISTISCHE WIDERSTANDSKIMPPER SETTRICH PREUR GEBOREY AY, 23 IMI 1886 W MAUENFELD 12 ERVORDET I 28. AUGUST 1914 I ZUCHTMUS BRANDENBURG DIE TOTEN MANNEN

            Daggett

              The Donner Laboratory

                Rawlins Springs

                Just loved the description of the spring by Gen. Rawlins - who was part of the 1867 survey party that was exploring a route for the Union Pacific Railroad: "General John A. Rawlins, a member...

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                • acceptable
                • water spring

                Mount Baker Terminal

                  Historic Tumwater

                    Honor Roll South Bend

                      Pioneer tank and plane

                      In our school in the fall of 1941, an initiative was born to raise funds among Bor schoolchildren for a pioneer tank and plane

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                      Hero Minenko Leonid

                      In this house from 1966 to 2007 lived a participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel,Leonid Ivanovich MINENKO Honoured Test Pilot, Honorary Citizen of Nizhny Novgorod Region

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                      • gorky
                      • ussr