Monuments

A monument marking the first airplane flights in Japan hints at the dark history behind its peaceful park setting.

This grassy field marks the site of a surprising religious conflict.

The mausoleum of New Zealand's controversial prime minister.

The site of detentions and torture under the Pinochet regime in Chile is now a memorial.

St. Claude, Manitoba, commemorates its first settlers with a giant tobacco smoking pipe monument.

A poignant tribute from a local legend paying tribute to his son.

A memorial dedicated to a traveling circus elephant killed by a lightning strike in 1972.

A monument dedicated to three unlikely visitors to North America.

A pair of 19th-century granite markers symbolically record where the state boundaries of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania intersect.

See every month of the year personified at this opulent Turinese fountain.

A quirky monument to the 49th parallel in downtown Prešov, Slovakia.

A monument to the Turkish librarian who delivered books on the back of a donkey.

After Nazi forces smashed this 4,000-year-old Neolithic standing stone, locals banded together to restore it.

A monument tucked within a suburban neighborhood commemorates the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean.

This statue stands in honor of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the French author of 'The Little Prince' and an aviation hero.

A tribute to Charles M. Schulz, who created the iconic cartoon that features Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and more.

A memorial overlooking a busy roadway is linked with the story of a 17th-century noblewoman’s legal battle for her inheritance.