Monuments

A poignant tribute from a local legend paying tribute to his son.

A memorial dedicated to a traveling circus elephant killed by a lightning strike in 1972.

A monument dedicated to three unlikely visitors to North America.

A pair of 19th-century granite markers symbolically record where the state boundaries of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania intersect.

See every month of the year personified at this opulent Turinese fountain.

A quirky monument to the 49th parallel in downtown Prešov, Slovakia.

A monument to the Turkish librarian who delivered books on the back of a donkey.

After Nazi forces smashed this 4,000-year-old Neolithic standing stone, locals banded together to restore it.

A monument tucked within a suburban neighborhood commemorates the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean.

This statue stands in honor of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the French author of 'The Little Prince' and an aviation hero.

A tribute to Charles M. Schulz, who created the iconic cartoon that features Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and more.

A memorial overlooking a busy roadway is linked with the story of a 17th-century noblewoman’s legal battle for her inheritance.

An inverted staircase above the entrance to the Bethnal Green Underground Station functions as a memorial for people who lost their lives during the worst civilian disaster in the U.K. during World War II.

A Taiwanese garden teems with the retired statues of the island's former dictator.

An Asante king spent four years in exile in a house on this very spot.