Flight 93 National Memorial is a solemn, carefully designed landscape near Shanksville, within day-trip reach of Johnstown. It honours the passengers and crew who fought the hijackers of United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, and died when the plane crashed in rural Pennsylvania.
The memorial's power comes from restraint: open fields, the flight path, names, and the sense of distance from any city skyline. Visit with time for the visitor center as well as the memorial plaza. It is not an attraction in the usual sense, but it is one of the most meaningful places in the region.