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Pearl Harbor / USS Arizona Memorial
The USS Arizona Memorial was dedicated in 1962, built directly over the sunken remains of the battleship USS Arizona, which was destroyed during the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor with the loss of 1,177 crew members — the single deadliest loss of life aboard any ship in the attack that drew the United States into World War II. The memorial's distinctive design, by architect Alfred Preis, deliberately sags in the middle and rises at both ends, a shape the architect described as symbolizing initial defeat followed by ultimate victory, and the structure straddles the sunken hull without touching it, built specifically not to disturb the wreck below. The ship still slowly leaks oil from its submerged fuel tanks more than eight decades after sinking, a phenomenon visitors can see rising to the surface in small iridescent droplets sometimes called the "tears of the Arizona," and the vessel remains an official war grave, with many of the sailors killed in 1941 still entombed within the wreck. For a Honolulu attractions list, the USS Arizona Memorial is the essential "the day the war began" entry — a 1962 memorial built directly over a sunken warship that still leaks oil today, marking the single deadliest ship loss of the attack that drew America into World War II.
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Diamond Head State Monument
Diamond Head is a volcanic tuff cone formed roughly 300,000 years ago during a single, geologically brief eruptive sequence, and its distinctive crater shape has made it the most recognizable natural landmark on the island of Oahu, visible from much of Waikiki and the surrounding coastline. The crater takes its English name from 19th-century British sailors who mistook glittering calcite crystals found on its slopes for diamonds, a case of mistaken geology that stuck permanently even after the crystals were identified as worthless — the native Hawaiian name, Lēʻahi, refers instead to the shape of a tuna's dorsal fin. The US military built extensive fortifications inside and around the crater in the early 20th century, including Fort Ruger, one of the earliest coastal artillery installations in the Hawaiian Islands, and several of those military tunnels and bunkers remain visible along the hiking trail to the summit today. For a Honolulu attractions list, Diamond Head is the essential "the crater that named itself wrong" entry — a 300,000-year-old volcanic tuff cone misnamed for crystals that turned out to be worthless, still the single most recognizable silhouette on the entire island of Oahu.
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