The Shrines of Aspen Mountain
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 15, 2016
Tucked in the woods surrounding the many ski areas around Aspen, in the US state of Colorado, are countless shrines and memorials. Hidden am...
Showing posts with the label Monument
8 Living Memorials Shaped Out of Trees
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 15, 2016
Building a memorial out of stone and concrete is one way to pay tribute to a person, but a truly unique and symbolic way of memorializing so...
Wichahpi Commemorative Stone Wall
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 12, 2016
For the last 35 years, Alabama resident Tom Hendrix has been building a mile-long monument, in his hometown Florence, to honor his great-gre...
Unconditional Surrender
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 10, 2016
On San Diego’s harbor, right next to the maritime museum aboard the aircraft carrier USS Midway, stands a 25-foot-tall statue depicting a sa...
Istanbul’s Famous ‘Meme Cat’ Honored With Statue
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2016
On the occasion of World Animal Day on October 4, Istanbul unveiled a sculpture in the likeness of Tombili, a cat that shot into fame early ...
The Brown Dog Affair
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 29, 2016
In a secluded spot near the Old English Garden, in London’s Battersea Park, is a small bronze statue of a terrier. The statue was erected in...
Monument to The Conquerors of Space
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 23, 2016
In the early 1960s, the Soviet Union was way ahead of the United States in the space race. They launched the first artificial satellite of e...
Faro a Colon: The Columbus Lighthouse
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2016
In Santo Domingo Este of Dominican Republic, is a towering monument dedicated to Christopher Columbus. It’s called “Faro a Colon”, which is ...
Cretto di Burri: The Concrete Labyrinth of Gibellina
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 12, 2016
On the Italian island of Sicily, about 70 km from the capital city Palermo, is a huge labyrinth of concrete hugging the side of a hill like ...
Colossal Statue of Guan Yu in Jingzhou
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 14, 2016
An enormous statue of the ancient Chinese warrior Guan Yu was recently unveiled at a park in Jingzhou city in Hubei province. The statue dep...
The Monument to Hugh Glass
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2016
Perhaps the most memorable scene from the 2015 movie The Revenant was Hugh Glass, played by actor Leonardo DiCaprio, being attacked by a gr...
Memorial to The Murdered Jews of Europe
Kaushik Patowary
May 26, 2016
One of the most impressive and controversial memorial to the Holocaust is located near Brandenburg Gate, in the Friedrichstadt neighborhood ...
Monument to The Taxi Driver, Buenos Aires
Kaushik Patowary
May 21, 2016
Located in the square of the Avenue of the Italians and Macacha Guemes, in the neighborhood Puerto Madero, in Buenos Aires, the Monument to ...
The Dance of Zalongo
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 30, 2016
Above the village of Kamarina, near Preveza, Greece, is the historic cliffs of Mount Zalongo. It was here in 1803, during the Souliote War, ...
A Statue Dedicated to Sex Workers in Amsterdam
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 27, 2016
In Oudekerksplein, or the Old Church's Square, in the heart of Amsterdam’s red-light district of De Wallen, stands a bronze statue of a ...
Swords in The Rock, Norway
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 13, 2016
On a small hill on the edge of Hafrsfjord, about 6 km from the city center of Stavanger, Norway, stands three enormous bronze swords as monu...
African Renaissance Monument
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 28, 2016
Standing atop a 100-meter high hill overlooking the Atlantic Ocean outside Dakar, in Senegal, stands the gigantic Monument to the African Re...
Al-Shaheed Monument, Baghdad
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 14, 2016
During the 1970s and 1980s, Saddam Hussein’s government spent a lot of oil money in building monuments around Baghdad. Two of these are quit...
The EVE Online Monument in Reykjavik
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 12, 2015
In the world of massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), the science fiction game EVE Online developed and published by CCP ...
The Monument to Russia’s Favorite Bus LiAZ-677
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 17, 2015
On Saturday August 29, 2015, in the suburban town of Likino-Dulyovo, 98 kilometers northeast of Moscow, a new monument was unveiled. It’s tr...
