History Someone already pitched Bezos' 10,000-year clock — in 1903 Ellsworth Toohey

architecture Turkmenistan's eccentric dictator built a self-glorifying $12m phallic marble monstrosity called the "Neutrality Monument" Mark Frauenfelder

christian nationalism Gov. Huckabee Sanders allows forced birth monument to stand on Arkansas' Capitol grounds Carla Sinclair

monuments Marjorie Taylor Greene said she visited monument to honor Confederate soldiers but it was actually a monument for Union troops David Pescovitz

History The ancient mounds of Louisiana Jennifer Sandlin

vandalism Georgia Guidestone update: "Satanic monument struck down by God" Jennifer Sandlin

History Missing World War II monument found after being used as a backyard tool shed for decades and almost purchased to be a poolside changing room David Pescovitz

racism Ken Burns: our monuments are representations of myth, not fact Séamus Bellamy

politics Native Americans to protest Trump's trip to Mount Rushmore Xeni Jardin

politics America's National Cathedral removes Confederate windows Andrea James

picks Arlington National Cemetery is the only monument we need to Robert E. Lee Jason Weisberger

religion Man destroys Arkansas' Ten Commandments monument Rob Beschizza

slime Strange living slime blackening Washington DC memorials David Pescovitz

monuments Stonehenge may be a "used monument" originally erected in Wales Rob Beschizza

History Memory Palace podcast about a Confederate monument honoring a real racist David Pescovitz

The pyramids' missing casing stones have a better story than "thieves" Jason Weisberger

politics Irish councilor proposes tiny statue of mosquito blamed for killing invader Oliver Cromwell Rob Beschizza

History What thousands of years of foot traffic does to marble stairs Popkin

History The folklore behind lone chimneys left standing in Appalachia Popkin

photography A 1990 photo book placed real kittens at landmarks in 15 countries Popkin