Berlin Wall Slab and Mini Twin Towers
Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii
Nowadays chunks of the old Berlin Wall are scattered across America, but in 1992 they were a novelty. Honolulu Community College became only the third place in the U.S. to acquire one. The 12-foot high, three-ton slab stands upright as it did in Berlin, with its graffiti-covered side facing West and its clean, if-you-touch-me-you-die side facing East.
Thirteen years later, a 9/11 memorial was erected next to the Berlin slab. Twin five-foot-tall shiny steel towers support a plexiglass American flag. Attached to the back of the memorial, in a sealed vessel, are a golf-ball-sized piece of World Trade Center rubble and a charred hunk of the Pentagon's roof.
Honolulu is next to Pearl Harbor, a place not unfamiliar with sneak attacks.