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

St. Peter A.M.E. Church

409 Church. Ca. 1885 High Victorian Gothic. This church was founded in 1870. The building is a simplified version of the High Victorian Gothic style popular in the United States in the latter half...

  • mississippi
  • church

Administration Building, U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, Carville

  Indian Camp Plantation, Henry Howard, Architect, Built 1859, Wood, Masonry & Steel, Sq.Ft. 17,042 Facing River Road in a prominent position at the entrance to the grounds is Indian Camp...

  • louisiana
  • plantation
  • public service
  • hospital
  • military

Blackwater Conservation Area

  In the 1970's much of the park you are about to enter was mined as part of a commercial sand and gravel operation. Through this process the area was logged and stripped of its nutritious...

  • louisiana
  • environment
  • nature

Comite River - Blackwater Conservation Area

  Parent soil material along the Comite includes quartz and sand crystals, which differ significantly from the alluvial mud that characterizes the Mississippi River Basin. The Comite River begins...

  • louisiana
  • environment
  • nature

Eyeswell, Eccleshall, Staffordshire

Eccleshall is a small market town (but more like a village) outside of Stafford, Staffordshire. This plaque marks the small path that runs parallel with the high street, where market sellers...

  • market
  • town
  • high street
  • uk
  • village

Gooderham "Flatiron" Buidling

Submitted by @heritagetoronto

    ATK Baseball Field

    ATK BASEBALL FIELD1916 1938 ALAMEDA TAIIKU KAI (ALAMEDA ATHLETIC CLUB) DURING THE YEARS 1916-1938 THIS WAS THE APPROXIMATE LOCATION OF HOME PLATE OF THE ALAMEDA JAPANESE AMERICAN...

    • japanese american
    • basecall
    • wwii
    • concentration camps
    • internment
    • taiiku kai

    First Mass in Alameda County

    A.D. 1772 NEAR THIS SPOT ON THE 27TH DAY OF MARCH 1772 FATHER PRIOR JUAN CREST[?] O. F. M. CELEBRATED THE FIRST HOLY MASS WITHIN THE PRESENT CONFINES OF THE COUNTY OF ALAMEDA, IN THE PRESENCE OF...

      John Julian McKeithen

        "I wasn't born to material wealth, nor do I have claim to an aristocratic name. But if I am elected governor, it will prove any mother's son can aspire to the highest political office of...

      • louisina
      • governor

      What Is the Sarto Bridge?

        The Sarto Old Iron Bridge was built in response to flood problems in northeast Avoyelles Parish during the early part of the twentieth century. Frequent flooding between Bayou des Glaises...

      • louisiana
      • bridge