Legacy Locations
Historical memorials, organised by city
A growing, hand-tended collection of blue plaques, monuments and memorials. Each location is a life: a small editorial page with a place on the map, a name to find, and where one exists, a link to their full tribute.
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708 locationsWorld heritage memorials
85 sitesThe most visited and most searched memorial sites in the world - from Père Lachaise and the Taj Mahal to the 9/11 Memorial and Hiroshima Peace Memorial.
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Paris, France
Highgate Cemetery
London, United Kingdom
Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington, Virginia, United States
La Recoleta Cemetery
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno
Genoa, Italy
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Novodevichy Cemetery
Moscow, Russia
Okunoin
Mount Kōya, Japan
Bonaventure Cemetery
Savannah, Georgia, United States
Old Jewish Cemetery, Prague
Prague, Czech Republic
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Los Angeles, United States
Green-Wood Cemetery
Brooklyn, New York, United States
Data sources
Location records are drawn from open, licence-clean datasets, kept here with attribution and gratitude to the people who maintain them.
- Open Plaques, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). See openplaques.org.
- Wikidata, available under the CC0 1.0 Universal dedication.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.
- Historic England, National Heritage List for England, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. War memorial records are drawn from open community datasets (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NHLE) - never from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is excluded.
Editorial descriptions, photography and tribute links are original TributeLegacy work, layered on top of the open data.