Monuments

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.

A poignant tribute from a local legend paying tribute to his son.

A memorial dedicated to a traveling circus elephant killed by a lightning strike in 1972.