Columns

Colombia’s only monument erected to mark the end of slavery in the former Republic of New Granada.

A small Byzantine church lost in the middle of the mountains of southern Italy.

A single column facing the sea is all that's left of one of the most important temples of Magna Graecia.

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.

This hilltop ruin is of the hundreds of stone columns built in tribute to the first German chancellor.

These enigmatic columns tower over the ruins of an ancient Toltec city.

You can climb to the top of the column built to honor the "father of British inland navigation."

There are many Byzantine-era churches still standing in Athens, but this is the only one with a 2,500-year-old column rising through its roof.

A Byzantine church containing the holy remnants of three saints sits atop the site of an ancient temple.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.

A mysterious pillar in an ancient burial chamber is said to predict how long you have to live.

Why a column on the entrance is inscribed with a verse from the Quran is one of Sicily's many mysteries.

Something's missing between the arcades of the Palazzo della Ragione in "the city of the three withouts."

A curious carving hides on a marble column in the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba.

Now harmless, this looming post struck fear into the heart of medieval troublemakers.

After spending more than a century on the ocean floor, this shipwrecked column is finally resting atop solid ground.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

A small granite monument marks where the borders of three countries meet.