(Photo: Rolf Müller)In the village of Tappan in Rockland County, New York, there is a circular plot of ground dedicated to the memory of Major John André, a British Army officer whom General George Washington...

(Photo: Austin Donisan)This enormous sculpture rem...  ...he Romanian homeland.This is one of 10 incredible monuments

The city of Berlin had a particularly gruesome 20t...  ...ns like the Berlin Wall Memorial or the Holocaust monuments near the Brandenburg Gate, it’s nearly impo...  ...lin cannot escape the meaning of the markers, the monuments , and the preserved ruins of the past. Learn more...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union produced tho...  ...with so many retired planes? One thing is to make monuments of them! See, a retired plane is a ready-made scu...  ...nd a tribute to Soviet power. These fighter plane monuments still stand all over former Warsaw Pact countries...  ...t complexes. Urban Gh...

For a brief time, beginning with the reign of Genghis Khan (1155?-1227), the Mongols were the most powerful people on Earth. Five years ago, Mongolia erected an enormous statue in his honor:Kahn and his horse stand 131 f...

All this time kids have been singing about the London Bridge falling down, but it turns out it's the Taj Mahal that's in trouble. That's right, if you've always wanted to see the stunning Indian landmark, you'd better...

We all know about Mount Rushmore and the Great Sphinx of Giza, both carved in situ without the intention of ever being moved. Such sculptures are often referred to as living rock. Others, like these, are not so well kn...