Showing posts with the label Monument

The Tear Drop Memorial: The Forgotten Monument to The Victims of 9/11

Sep 12, 2015

“We will never forget”, is the phrase that has been famously repeated over and over again since the devastating attack on New York City on S...

‘Hope for Peace’ Monument in Yarze, Lebanon

Aug 10, 2015

The Lebanese Military Museum, dedicated for the preservation of old Lebanese military antiques, is located at the Ministry of National Defen...

The Train to Heaven in Wroclaw

Jul 28, 2015

The Train to Heaven is a monument depicting an old, real steam locomotive standing upright and pointing towards the sky, located at Strzegom...

The Story of Hachiko, The Loyal Dog

Jul 20, 2015

Just outside one of the five exits of Tokyo's Shibuya Station is a bronze statue of a dog named Hachiko. It is one of the most popular m...

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Around the World

Jul 11, 2015

Throughout history, thousands of wars have been fought and millions of soldiers have lost their lives, but only an insignificant fraction of...

Georgia Guidestones: The Doomsday Monument

May 13, 2015

The Georgia Guidestones is one of America’s strangest monument located on the highest hilltop in Elbert County, Georgia. It consist of four ...

Felicity, California: The Center of The World

Mar 27, 2015

Does the word “world” represent the earth in its spherical sense, or the surface of the sphere where all living and non-living entities live...

The Painted Monument to the Soviet Army in Bulgaria

Feb 4, 2015

The Monument to the Soviet Army is located in the King’s Garden in the heart of the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. Built in 1954, it was create...

The Four Corners Monument

Dec 19, 2014

The Four Corners Monument is the only place in the United States where you can be in four different states at the same time -Arizona, Colora...

Padrão dos Descobrimentos: The Discoveries Monument in Lisbon

Dec 10, 2014

The Portuguese were prolific explorers. Starting from the early 15th century, under the sponsorship of prince Henry the Navigator, several P...

Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France

Jun 4, 2014

The Canadian National Vimy Memorial is a war memorial located approximately eight kilometers north of Arras in France, near the town of Vimy...

Soviet War Memorial at Mamayev Kurgan

Oct 28, 2013

The southern Russian city of Stalingrad, later renamed Volgograd, witnessed one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare. The heav...

Enormous Statue of Genghis Khan in Mongolia

Sep 10, 2013

To the outside world, Genghis Khan, the fearsome Mongolian warrior who conquered half the known world in the 13th century, is remembered for...

Abandoned Buzludzha Monument at Bulgaria

Mar 18, 2013

Located at the historical peak of Buzludzha in the Central Stara Planina, Bulgaria, stands a magnificent piece of architecture. The Buzludzh...

Abandoned World War II Monuments and Memorials in Yugoslavia

Jun 26, 2012

During the 1960s and 70s, the then Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito, commissioned several memorial sites and monuments called ‘Spomenik...

Naqsh-i Rustam: Colossal Tombs of Persian Kings

Jan 14, 2012

About 12 km northwest of the Iranian city of Persepolis, lies a rocky hill. Engraved on the almost perpendicular façade of the hill, at a co...

The Many Constumes of Manneken Pis

Jun 3, 2011

At the corner of Rue de l'Étuve/Stoofstraat and Rue du Chêne/Eikstraat in the heart of Brussels, is a famous landmark – the Manneken Pis...