Everyone knows about the Statue of Liberty, the Easter Island Moai heads, Mount Rushmore and the Sphinxes of Ancient Egypt, but not all monstrous monuments were built in centuries past. Colossal ...
The Russian embassy has taken a hard line in Bulgaria where Soviet monuments have been spray-painted to become iconic American fictional characters from Superman and the Joker to Santa Claus and ...
Visitors to Battery Park in Manhattan will find memorials to fallen soldiers, sunken sailors and 400 passengers who perished when a Staten Island ferry was attacked by a giant ...
Photographer Oliver Curtis turns his back on some of the world's most famous monuments, capturing a wholly unexpected side to these familiar cultural icons. If life is a journey and not a ...
Fenced off or set back from streets and sidewalks and often raised on platforms as well, civic monuments are oddly ideal candidates for concealing a peculiar secondary function: the ventilation ...
When the tide is low in the Delaware River, an unlikely sight emerges from the water: gravestones in various states of decay, serving to bolster the columns of a bridge spanning ...
Though Nelson Mandela's passing will spur the creation of memorials worldwide, a number of larger-than-life tributes are already extant or planned. ...
Statue of limitations, you say? Not applicable in these 15 countries, at least. This monumental selection of sky-high statues showcases the tallest figural sculptures in their respective countries ...
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free!" These words, bronzed into the foundation of the Statue of Liberty have been a symbol of hope and freedom for nearly ...
"Peace is always beautiful" - Walt Whitman Humans really know how to commemorate their fallen and the incredible monuments dedicated to war stand as evidence. Seeing those, a few will probably ...
