Monuments

A portion of the old Pirates stadium over which a defining home run once flew still stands even after the rest of the stadium was torn down.

One of the largest amphitheaters in Europe is a former Nazi German gathering place that still stands today.

A giant concrete egg marks this Indiana town as the "Egg Basket of the Midwest."

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

The largest coin pyramid in the world is a carefully balanced stack of over 1,000,000 pieces.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

For the holidays, the tallest broadcasting tower in the Netherlands turns into one of the world's tallest Christmas trees.

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

This man-made mound monument was built out of soil from all across the Polish empire.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

This spacecraft-shaped water tower is only a part of the mysterious UFO mania in this Brazilian town.