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

Who Fell In Action During the Thibetan Expedition

  © Copyright Richard West and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence . Submitted via Geograph

  © Copyright Richard West and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence . Submitted via Geograph

  • geograph
  • docks
  • harbours
  • craster harbour
  • historic sit...
  • coastal
  • memorial plaques
  • thibet

Netting Fence: To Prevent Dingoes and Rabbits

Submitted by @bruceh72

Submitted by @bruceh72

  • rabbit
  • dingo
  • dingoes
  • fence
  • australia

Plaque by Drinking Fountain, Promenade, Cowes, Isle of Wight

To the west of the castle in the garden by Queen's Road is a plaque adjacent to the restored Victorian drinking fountain.   © Copyright Christine Matthews and licensed for reuse under this...

To the west of the castle in the garden by Queen's Road is a plaque adjacent to the restored Victorian drinking fountain.   © Copyright Christine Matthews and licensed for reuse under this...

  • village
  • rural settlement
  • information
  • coastal
  • geograph
  • drinking fountain
  • water fountain

Greenwich Meridian, Louth

Detail of the plaque mounted on the wall of Milano's take away. TF3387 : Greenwich Meridian, Louth It says: THIS PLAQUE WAS PRESENTED TO THE BOROUGH OF LOUTH BY E. KEMP ESQ. AUGUST 1948   ©...

Detail of the plaque mounted on the wall of Milano's take away. TF3387 : Greenwich Meridian, Louth It says: THIS PLAQUE WAS PRESENTED TO THE BOROUGH OF LOUTH BY E. KEMP ESQ. AUGUST 1948  ...

  • city
  • town centre
  • historic sit...
  • geograph
  • meridian

Shire of Ballarat Honour Avenue

Submitted by @bruceh72 .

Submitted by @bruceh72 .

  • australia
  • ballarat
  • honour

Butterfield / Jansen Building

1859: Charles Lincoln Wilson buys this site, previously patented by Theodore Judah.1861: C.L. Wilson erects a wooden warehouse to serve railway terminal across 5th street.1863: Used often as a...

1859: Charles Lincoln Wilson buys this site, previously patented by Theodore Judah.1861: C.L. Wilson erects a wooden warehouse to serve railway terminal across 5th street.1863: Used often as...

  • lincoln
  • california

And Thereby Initiated

Photo credit: Nathan Guy

Photo credit: Nathan Guy

  • nuclear
  • atomic
  • energy
  • chain reaction
  • 1942
  • pile
  • szillard

NYC Library Walk: Robert Pinsky

  • nyc
  • new york
  • library
  • pinsky
  • poetry

Lincoln to the Citizens of Indiana

“…it is your business…if the Union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost…. It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union….” From speech by President-elect...

“…it is your business…if the Union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost…. It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union….” From speech by...

  • indianapolis
  • indiana
  • lincoln
  • abraham lincoln
  • indiana hist...

Romanian Orthodox Church

Here, at 635 W. Market Street, original Saints Constantine and Elena Romanian Orthodox Church was dedicated in 1911; incorporated in 1916. Church has served Romanian community spiritually,...

Here, at 635 W. Market Street, original Saints Constantine and Elena Romanian Orthodox Church was dedicated in 1911; incorporated in 1916. Church has served Romanian community...

  • indianapolis
  • indiana
  • romanian ort...
  • sts. constan...