Monuments

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

A bronze ballot box stands at the spot where Susan B. Anthony voted illegally.

The London statue that imitates passersby.

A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

A strange egg in a mucky bog of western Ireland marks the spot of an aviation milestone.

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

One of the most influential presidents in U.S. history wanted only this plain, elegant monument as his lasting memorial.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

A bronze monument to Cleveland's favorite, fastest son.

Daredevil repair workers can worm their way out the access hatch, loop ropes over the apex and rappel down the monument.

A swimming hole in the historic industrial quarry that supplied the marble for the Baltimore Washington Monument.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.