Monuments

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.

This odd stone memorial remembers a loyal dog who offended the rail barons with his speed and saved his master with his pee.

The 25th President's marble casket can be visited in this classical Ohio tomb.

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.

A concrete block embedded with thousands of pulled teeth was created by a local dentist to memorialize his dog.

This German monument honors the so-called "Prince of Mathematicians."

A strange rock in Chicago marks the spot where a tree once stood in honor of the 18th President.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

This ironic war memorial thumbs its nose at a campaign of inedible humanitarian aid food products.

This trio of bronze giants celebrate the influential trip to Britain that led to Botswana's independence.

The victims of a free-floating Japanese bombing during WWII are remembered by this stone monument.

Croatia's towering concrete blossom grows from the site of a World War II concentration camp.

Two distorted Romanesque columns hold aloft a mine cart in honor of laborers who died during WWII.

This sci-fi gazebo located in a Washington power town is made from old bits of industrial electrical equipment.

A tiny plaque hidden miles into the Washington wilderness is all that remains to honor a shipwreck that left 18 people dead.