Monuments

Dedicated to the lives lost during a fatal stampede in the Nyamiha Station.

This site commemorates the birthplace of the game of basketball, invented by James Naismith in the winter of 1891.

A brutalist war memorial piercing through the rolling farm landscape.

Since the 1930s, this Pennsylvania town has celebrated the humble tomato.

This cryptic monument honors a mysterious dead woman, despite her identity being lost centuries ago.

In the middle of a forest you can find the first landing place of an air balloon in the Netherlands.

This metal sculpture is a tribute to the Canadian Pacific Railway, which had a station in the village that has now been converted into a library.

How did a 2,000-year-old Roman column find its way to a Chicago park?

This Civil War monument was designed by an eccentric architect and Gettysburg veteran.

A small monument on the outskirts of Prague, where one of the bloodiest conflicts in the country's history was decided.

The massive mountain ash that once stood at this site was cut down in an effort to prove that it was, indeed, the tallest of its kind.

Buddha figures are carved into volcanic rocks on the seashore of Yamagara Prefecture.

A farming family's tribute to the pack animal.

A 30-foot-tall cement chair pays tribute to a historic design and a local industry.

All that remains of the first colonial naval ship in Australia is located in a park in Queenscliff.