Monuments

The profile of one ill-fated deacon was emblazoned forever on this church window during the Halifax explosion.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.

A gated cross stands on the site where an Irish revolutionary met his end.

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.

Four ionic columns from the Treasury Department building ended up in a park in Nebraska.

The Cuban revolutionary looks over the country from its highest peak.

A mysterious monument where a woman who records say never existed was burnt alive for being a witch.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

A tomb in the shape of a traditional Mexican hat and shawl for the father of modern rancheras.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.

The Southern California pop sounds of surf and sand were born right here.

This European portal tomb has a capstone that weighs around 150 tons.

The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

A remote gravestone on the moor marks the spot where a teacher's body was found under mysterious circumstances that remain inexplicable.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.