Monuments in the United States

A monument commemorating how a frontier town got its unusual name.

This original Mason-Dixon line cairn placed in the 1760s was put in the wrong location because of the gravitational pull of the Allegheny Mountains.

Dedicated in 1895, this is the world's first tribute to the hardworking newspaper delivery boy.

Nobody's quite sure who erected this monument marking the spot where a gray wolf was shot and killed.

Dedicated to extinct passenger pigeons.

Dedicated to the first Black recipient of the Navy Cross.

One of the best-selling bar bands in American music history is commemorated in their hometown's Five Points neighborhood.

This unusual sculpture honors the city's namesake, Octave Chanute, for his pioneering work in early aviation.

Dedicated to a college founder's alleged ancestor who was martyred in 1555.

This statue honors Marvin Klegman, a heroic child who died while saving another boy's life in a 1949 earthquake, and shares his long untold story.

This remote river crossing was a popular campground on American westward expansion trails, and a former Pony Express station.

A plaque recognizes "unquestionably the most widely published photograph in rural electrification history."

An 83-foot tall granite obelisk honors the legacy of Dr. King in the heart of Norfolk's Black community.

America's first National Historic Landmark is a 100-foot tall obelisk and gravesite dedicated to the only casualty of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.

An iron monument on the 120th meridian as surveyed, one of only four marking the boundary between Nevada and California north of Lake Tahoe.

The hall of fame for circus performers.