Monuments

A plaque in Madrid’s West Park marks the launch of a queer icon’s unlikely media career.

Maybe the most iconic character in the Easter (Holy Week) processions in Zamora.

A monument to peace, built by one man over the course of 25 years.

This red light district plaza memorializes the Fab Four and their historic connection to the area.

A memorial commemorating the place where Truman gave the order to deploy the first nuclear bombs on Japan.

A charming monument to a very special dog.

A stone monument acknowledging Scotland's right to have a separate Parliament from the one in Westminster.

A futuristic rocket marks the spot where three borders meet.

A hilltop stone monument commemorating the establishment of a historic social welfare organization.

Dedicated to the lives lost during a fatal stampede in the Nyamiha Station.

This site commemorates the birthplace of the game of basketball, invented by James Naismith in the winter of 1891.

A brutalist war memorial piercing through the rolling farm landscape.

Since the 1930s, this Pennsylvania town has celebrated the humble tomato.

This cryptic monument honors a mysterious dead woman, despite her identity being lost centuries ago.

In the middle of a forest you can find the first landing place of an air balloon in the Netherlands.

This metal sculpture is a tribute to the Canadian Pacific Railway, which had a station in the village that has now been converted into a library.