Pink Triangle Park

Pink Triangle Park, San Francisco

If the tour guide on our walking tour of San Francisco's Castro district hadn't pointed out this small wedge of land in the median of a busy street, we would have never noticed it. More's the pity. This triangular-shaped pink memorial park is the first of its kind in America and honors the 15,000 gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender victims of the Nazis during and after WWII.

I don't believe I saw mention of it in the guidebooks we took with us on our trip, and we nearly got run over trying to cross the street to see it. But it was a pretty park and as worthy of our attention as any other Holocaust memorial.