Metro Monuments & Memorials

This Is Why Military Members Leave Coins on the Gravestones of the Fallen

The moving tradition of leaving coins on the gravestones of military members can be traced back to ancient times.

Find A Coin On A Headstone? Don't Touch,Here's Why

Coins on a headstone? Finders, keepers? Not this time.

Custom Memorials & Your Guide to Popular Headstone Symbols

With the extensive selection of custom memorials, almost any symbol or message can be added to stone grave markers. However, despite a plethora of options, there are

10 funeral home realities you probably never wanted to know

As Halloween approaches and the fall decor goes up, we find ourselves surrounded by pumpkins, scary movies and mountains of candy.

10 Tips for Planning a Funeral and Saving Money

Planning a funeral for a someone you love is one of the most difficult things that people have to do. Not only is it emotionally trying, it can also be financially challenging as well. Advanced Fun…

To The Person 'Inconvenienced' By Our Funeral Procession

To the middle-aged woman who gestured angrily and yelled as we passed...To the 30-something man in the power suit who honked and forced his black SUV...

Responding to Tragedy: Memorials and Monuments

Continuing our series “Responding to Tragedy” in which we explore various artistic approaches to rebuilding memory, we look this week at memorials and monuments. In communities that have experienced terror and destruction, it is almost impossible to build tangible sites that will adequately depict this loss. How can this feeling of absence be evoked? Who …

10 Monuments and Memorials That Changed America Forever

From the iconic to the controversial to the unknown

On Placemaking: An Anthropologist's Perspective

They Are Their Own Monuments

In two North Philadelphia neighborhoods, many hands create homegrown art tributes to local heroes.

14 of the World’s Most Beautiful Memorials

These moving monuments and memorials are fitting tributes

Leave the national monuments alone

No one has offered a coherent, plausible argument that the previously declared monuments were poorly chosen, or reflected bad policies.

An Ever Present Memorial

How fashion is saving Italy's monuments

Commercial logos on historic sites may seem crass, but in Italy there may be no other way to preserve cherished monuments.

Famous Monuments Hiding Little-Known Secrets

Even though these monuments are extremely well known, they hold secrets that not many people are aware of.

Not All Monuments Men Were Men

Dozens of women contributed to the recovery of looted art during World War II, though their stories aren’t as well known as those of the Monuments Men.

10 Murderers With Their Own Monuments

It’s inevitable that we will always want to commemorate our renowned men and women by building monuments to them. The monument is a sign that the person is