Duke of Wellington
An iconic Glasgow landmark celebrating Wellington’s 1815 victory.
National Monument of Costa Rica
Bronze figures portray Central American victory over foreign invaders.
Solovetsky Stone
A granite boulder from the former Solovetsky camp, now a powerful memorial.
John Paul Jones Memorial
A bronze naval hero watches a battle atop a tall marble pylon.
James A. Garfield Monument
A bronze statue on a granite pedestal with three sculptural scenes from Garfield’s life.
Long Live the Victory of Mao Zedong Thought
A monumental Mao statue surrounded by revolutionary workers, peasants, and soldiers.
Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial
A bronze statue of Bethune presenting her legacy to two children.
Aboriginal Memorial
Two hundred decorated hollow log coffins commemorating Indigenous Australians.
Way of Human Rights
A monumental installation of white concrete pillars engraved with human rights articles.
Serpent Column
A bronze column once crowned by an ornate golden tripod.
Royal Artillery Memorial
A realist First World War memorial centered on a stone howitzer.
Monument to Salavat Yulaev
A dramatic horseman sculpture overlooking Ufa from a high riverbank.
USS Maine National Monument
A fountain monument crowned by gilded figures and surrounded by sculptural details.
Seagull Monument
A memorial to the seagulls said to have saved early Mormon crops.
Willy Brandt Memorial
Bronze figure seated on a bench, commemorating a former chancellor and Nobel laureate.
Lenin Monument in Zaporizhzhia
A towering bronze figure on a granite base, once among Ukraine’s largest.
Monument to Victims of the Wola Massacre
A granite memorial with engraved names and ten pits evoking people lined up for execution.
Obelisk of Montevideo
A 40-meter granite monument topped with bronze figures and a hexagonal fountain.
Tomb of Ferdinand van den Eynde
A celebrated funerary monument noted for its exceptional putti.
Buckey O'Neill Monument
An equestrian bronze honoring Buckey O'Neill and his fellow Spanish–American War servicemen.
Maisonneuve Monument
A monumental tribute to Montreal’s founder in the heart of Place d’Armes.
Holocaust Memorial
A long pink granite memorial with rail tracks, bridges, and a sea-facing opening.
Grunwald Monument
An equestrian monument celebrating a famous Polish-Lithuanian victory.
Fallen Astronaut
A stylized astronaut figure placed on the Moon as a memorial.
Postcards
Two giant postcards honor Staten Island victims of the September 11 attacks.
Obelisk at Slottsbacken
A neo-Egyptian monument commemorating Stockholm’s citizenry during the Russo-Swedish War.
Unknown Soldier Monument
An eternal flame, lion sculpture, and historic turf honor Bulgaria’s fallen soldiers.
Vargas Swamp Lancers
A towering monument honoring the famous charge of 14 lancers in 1819.
Aleksis Kivi Memorial
A contemplative figure seated in a chair, surrounded by literary reliefs.
Victor Emmanuel II Monument
A bronze equestrian statue on a marble pedestal with lions and reliefs.
Angel of Peace
A memorial for victims of Nazism and World War II, later moved nearby.
Birth of a New Man
A colossal Columbus figure partially enclosed by an egg-like shell.
Duke of Cambridge equestrian statue
A detailed bronze memorial showing the duke in full field marshal uniform on horseback.
Monument of Common Martyrdom
An austere memorial rising above a shared grave of wartime victims.
The Kiss of Death
A striking Art Deco marble statue created for a grieving family in Barcelona.
Alan Turing Memorial
A seated figure on a bench holding an apple in Sackville Gardens.
Major General George B. McClellan
A bronze horse-and-rider memorial on a granite base in a small public park.
Treblinka
A Holocaust memorial honoring Jews murdered at Treblinka in occupied Poland.
Monument to Narcís Monturiol
A concrete wall relief showing a scale model of the Ictineo submarine.
This is the Place Monument
A monument honoring the Mormon pioneers and the settlers of the American West.
Absalon Monument
A mounted bishop shown as a military commander with an axe in hand.
Monument aux Girondins
A monumental column crowned by Liberty breaking her chains.
Titanic Engine Room Heroes Memorial
A tall granite tribute to the Titanic’s engine room crew and wartime dead.
Shoes on the Danube Bank
Abandoned shoes mark the riverbank where victims were executed and swept away.
Antoninus Pius Column
Marble base with an apotheosis scene, once part of a Roman imperial monument.
Irish Hunger Memorial
A hillside memorial with Irish plants, stone walls, and engraved eyewitness quotations.
Alamo Cenotaph
A memorial monument commemorating the Alamo defenders and the 1836 siege.
Monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi
An imposing equestrian statue honoring the Hero of Two Worlds.
Stone Flower
A concrete memorial flower rising over the former Jasenovac camp.
The Shot in the Back
A 3.5-meter monument showing a woman holding a wounded man.
Statues, Busts and Sculptures
Park sculptures and installations
Ancient World & Antiquity
Middle Ages & Renaissance
Marble & Other Stones
Bronze & Other Metals