Assassination

This sculpture was made out of recycled guns that were turned in to the city.

This ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood was home to the civil rights icons and the site of a shocking assassination.

The final resting place of "Mother Kofi," a Black minister who was assassinated in the middle of a sermon.

In memory of the assassinated, now-canonized Salvadoran archbishop who is the namesake of nearby Romero Place.

In 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand spent his final night alive at this luxurious hotel.

This memorial to a murdered empress took 20 years to design, then spent 30 years hidden away in storage.

Initially built for a Chinese princess and sultana, this well was used to secretly assassinate some 200 Portuguese colonizers.

A small site dedicated to the memory of a local leader and the search for peace.

The 34th governor of Kentucky was sworn into office while on his deathbed after being shot outside the State House.

One of the five gates into the fortress of to Shaniwar Wada was renamed to commemorate the 10th Peshwa of the Maratha Empire.

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.

The hidden ruins of a mill that is linked to an attempt to assassinate the vice president of the United States.

This Byzantine Church was moved from Paris to Athens block by block.

The headquarters of Korea’s provisional government later became the site of a prominent statesman's assassination.

Not far from where one of the most famous Swedes of all time is buried, an infamous man was put to rest.