Monuments

Off a back road near Waterville Valley, one can find a castle turret built by an eccentric reverend over 100 years ago.

One of the earliest Ataturk monuments commemorates the victory of the Turkish War of Independence.

The largest funeral ever held was for one of Tamil's most influential politicians.

Abraham Lincoln never visited Wabash, but his statue found a home there.

A small maritime town's own way of memorializing the local lives spent at sea.

A trilingual monument marks the site of a Korean independence activist's assassination attempt on a Japanese prince in Taiwan.

A rare surviving set of early 17th-century bronze finials remain on this bridge.

Honoring the adaptive athlete's Marathon of Hope.

This human-shaped statue is actually a geodesic station.

French sculptor Paul Moreau-Vauthier transformed the site of a 19th-century massacre into a haunting memorial.

A monument marking the first airplane flights in Japan hints at the dark history behind its peaceful park setting.

This grassy field marks the site of a surprising religious conflict.

The mausoleum of New Zealand's controversial prime minister.

The site of detentions and torture under the Pinochet regime in Chile is now a memorial.

St. Claude, Manitoba, commemorates its first settlers with a giant tobacco smoking pipe monument.