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

Christopher Columbus, Columbus Circle

To Christopher Columbus The Italians resident in America, Scoffed at before, During the voyage, menaced, After it, chained, As generous as oppressed, To the world he gave a world.

To Christopher Columbus The Italians resident in America, Scoffed at before, During the voyage, menaced, After it, chained, As generous as oppressed, To the world he gave a world.

    Yelamu

    BEFORE 1776 THE NATIVE YELAMU PEOPLE LIVE NEARBY IN THE VILLAGE OF CHUTCHUI, RELOCATING EACH WINTER TO THE BAYSIDE VILLAGE OF SITLINTAC. A CREEK FLOWS PAST GRASSLAND AND CHAPARRAL TOWARD THE BAY...

    BEFORE 1776 THE NATIVE YELAMU PEOPLE LIVE NEARBY IN THE VILLAGE OF CHUTCHUI, RELOCATING EACH WINTER TO THE BAYSIDE VILLAGE OF SITLINTAC. A CREEK FLOWS PAST GRASSLAND AND CHAPARRAL TOWARD THE BAY...

      Memorial to Constable Angela Taylor

      Constable Angela Rose Taylor 24274 aged 21 years, City Watch-House, who died on the 20th April 1986 as a result of injuries received when a car bomb exploded outside the Russell St Police Complex...

      Constable Angela Rose Taylor 24274 aged 21 years, City Watch-House, who died on the 20th April 1986 as a result of injuries received when a car bomb exploded outside the Russell St Police Complex...

        Mark Hopkins Hotel

        THE MARK HOPKINS HOTEL WAS CONCEIVED, FINANCED  AND BUILT BY COMSTOCK LODE MINING ENGINEER  GEORGE D. SMITH WHO OPERATED IT FROM ITS OPENING  IN DECEMBER 1926 THROUGH JANUARY 1962. HE DIRECTED ...

        THE MARK HOPKINS HOTEL WAS CONCEIVED, FINANCED  AND BUILT BY COMSTOCK LODE MINING ENGINEER  GEORGE D. SMITH WHO OPERATED IT FROM ITS OPENING  IN DECEMBER 1926 THROUGH JANUARY 1962. HE...

          Old Stone Fort

          OLD STONE *FORT* Site of fort erected by public subscription as a protection against British warships during the war of 1812, captured in a sneak attack and dismantled by frigate NYMPHE....

          OLD STONE *FORT* Site of fort erected by public subscription as a protection against British warships during the war of 1812, captured in a sneak attack and dismantled by frigate...