Colonialism

The Catedral Basílica de Salvador is special for its stunning Baroque interior and the historic sepulchre of Mem de Sá, connecting the church to Salvador’s colonial past.

A collection of over 100 statues of people who fought for the freedom of South Africa.

Over 70,000 prisoners were “transported” to a brutal life of forced labor in this French penal colony.

A statue donated to the city of Mishawaka, Indiana in 1992, commemorating the 500th anniversary of Columbus’s arrival.

Both an engineering feat and a monument to bad colonial politics.

The last remnant of a controversial statue at Cape Town University.

Across the old bridge in Taiama is a monument to two Americans killed in a war against British imperialism.

This statue of King George V was beheaded as a protest of colonialism.

The man who surrendered his army to George Washington is buried halfway across the world.

This tree, over 500 years old, was planted by Columbus’s son.

Memorial to the brave indigenous defenders of the Canary Islands.

Memorial to the first European to set foot on Maui.

Commemorating the end of independent Gaelic Ireland.

Wander through a subtropical island rich with 19th-century colonial architecture, grand pianos, and the reassurance that you won't encounter automobiles.

Once the largest source of mercury in the Americas, these ruins earned the name “Mine of Death.”

This bullet spent 34 years lodged in the chest of Waruhiu Itote, a Mau Mau guerrilla fighter who resisted British colonial rule in the 1950s.

An unusually European Pueblo church is actually the oldest Native American congregation in the United States.

At the edge of a town market is the gravesite of a powerful female war chief.