The obelisk marks the pre­cise cen­ter of the con­ti­nent, as cal­cu­lat­ed by leg­endary Brazil­ian explor­er Can­di­do Ron­don. …

It may be only the world’s sec­ond most north­ern­ly stat­ue of Lenin (the top spot still belongs to Pyra­mi­den), but it’s…

A can­non from a ship­wreck dis­cov­ered in 1977. In 1647, the Sacra­men­to, a large Por­tuguese galleon, set out on her mai…

The square is home to hun­dreds of giant Russ­ian nest­ing dolls. There are nest­ing dolls with the faces of Vladimir Ily…

A mon­u­ment at the site of the 2004 tsuna­mi-hit pas­sen­ger train derail­ment.

Few peo­ple remem­ber the ter­ri­ble ter­ror­ist attack that took place on Sep­tem­ber 19, 1989, over the Sahara Desert. On t…

The most impor­tant mon­u­ment of Ash­ga­bat in locat­ed in the south­ern part of Turk­menistan Inde­pen­dence Park, which cove…

Tem­ples are usu­al­ly made of stone, stand still and glo­ri­fy mor­tal and immor­tal pow­er. I start­ed to think about this t…

Built in com­mem­o­ra­tion of Bangkok’s 150th anniver­sary cel­e­bra­tions in 1932, the mon­u­ment is at the foot of the Great …

In Greek mythol­o­gy, Prometheus is rep­re­sent­ed as a titan who cre­at­ed human­i­ty from clay. He is cred­it­ed with steal­ing…

This stat­ue is also called the 80-foot Bud­dha Stat­ue due to its impres­sive 25 meter height. Con­struct­ed by the near­by…