Visit the Vessel, a 16-story interactive sculpture and landmark at Hudson Yards in New York City
Visit the Dazu Rock Carvings, a series of Chinese religious sculptures and carvings dating back as far as the 7th century AD
Visit the Spomenik monument, unique abstract memorials built in former Yugoslavia during the 20th century
Visit Gibbs Farm, a large-scale outdoor sculpture park in New Zealand featuring contemporary artworks by international artists.
Ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire.
The torch-bearing symbol of New York.
Four basalt Toltec warriors, five metres tall, standing where their temple roof used to be.
Michelangelo's New Sacristy, where Night and Day lie unfinished over the Medici tombs.
Giant hilltop statue of Christ.
Giant seated Buddha on Lantau.
Europeโs mightiest river gorge, with the giant rock face of Decebalus opposite.
Maya city of carved stelae, UNESCO-listed.
Medieval capital explored by bicycle โ the Gal Vihara rock Buddhas and the royal palace ruins.
Sacred forest of shrines and sculpture along the Osun river, a UNESCO site.
The "citadel of women": pink sandstone carved so finely it is called the jewel of Khmer art.
The guardian lion of the Giza plateau.
Ramesses II's colossal rock-cut temples.
A 46-metre gold-leaf reclining Buddha in Bangkokโs oldest temple, also the birthplace of Thai massage.
Colossal stone heads ringing a mountaintop royal tomb from the 1st century BC.
Delightfully strange theme park of Chinese mythology dioramas built by the Tiger Balm brothers.
Xi'an's buried army of clay warriors.
71-metre Buddha carved into a river cliff in Sichuan โ the largest stone Buddha in the world.
Rock-cut cave temples in Maharashtra, crowned by the monolithic Kailasa temple.
Four 18-metre presidential faces carved into a Black Hills granite cliff โ best seen at the evening lighting ceremony.
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