Columns

Only three columns survive from this ancient temple in the town of Cori.

This column celebrates Rome's victory over the Goths, and may be the oldest Roman monument in Istanbul.

This massive monument honors the first human in space.

The giant birds honor two native North American species.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

It's a mystery how these curious columns wound up in an Edinburgh suburb.

The iconic remains of the original Academic Hall that burned down in 1892.

Colombia’s only monument erected to mark the end of slavery in the former Republic of New Granada.

A small Byzantine church lost in the middle of the mountains of southern Italy.

A single column facing the sea is all that's left of one of the most important temples of Magna Graecia.

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.

This hilltop ruin is of the hundreds of stone columns built in tribute to the first German chancellor.

These enigmatic columns tower over the ruins of an ancient Toltec city.

You can climb to the top of the column built to honor the "father of British inland navigation."

There are many Byzantine-era churches still standing in Athens, but this is the only one with a 2,500-year-old column rising through its roof.

A Byzantine church containing the holy remnants of three saints sits atop the site of an ancient temple.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.

A mysterious pillar in an ancient burial chamber is said to predict how long you have to live.