🏟️ Americas Monuments

522 monuments · 21 countries

A profile for each of the 522 notable monuments in Americas — location, country, and a plain-English introduction from Wikipedia. These 522 monuments span 21 countries.

100th Anniversary of the Canadian Navy

Canada

29th Colored Regiment Monument

United States

9/11 Tribute Museum

United States

91st Division Monument

United States

A Monument to Peace: Our Hope for the Children

United States

Abraham Lincoln Monument (Ypsilanti, Michigan)

United States

Abraham Lincoln: The Man

United States

ACA Memorial Park

United States

African-American Monument

United States

Air Force Monument

United States

Albert Pike Memorial

United States

Alexander Hodge Memorial

United States

Alto de la Alianza Monumental Complex

Peru

American Merchant Marine Veterans Memorial

United States

Ames Monument

United States

Amory's Tribute to the Heroes of 1861–1865

United States

Angel of Independence

Mexico

Anthem Veterans Memorial

United States

Antimonumenta (Banca Roja)

Mexico

Antimonumento +72

Mexico

Antonio Maceo monument, Havana

Cuba

Arcos de Guadalajara

Mexico

Arkadelphia Confederate Monument

United States

Armenian Genocide Martyrs Monument

United States

Armenian Martyrs Memorial

Uruguay

Armistead Monument

United States

Artillería funicular railway

Chile

Ascensor Concepción

Chile

Ascensor Mariposas

Chile

Ashland UDC Jefferson Davis Highway Marker

United States

Astoria Column

United States

Atantano Shrine

United States

Athens Confederate Monument

United States

Atlanta from the Ashes (The Phoenix)

United States

Balbo Monument

United States

Balcón de Huaura

Peru

Bald Knob Cross

United States

Baron Bliss Light

Belize

Barón funicular

Chile

Battle Monument

United States

Beacon Hill Monument

United States

Beacon of Hope (monument)

United States

Beirut Memorial

United States

Bell Memorial

Canada

Benito Juárez Hemicycle

Mexico

Bentonville Confederate Monument

United States

Berkeley Memorial

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Berlin Wall Monument (Chicago)

United States

Bernardo O'Higgins Monument

Chile

Beverly Hills 9/11 Memorial Garden

United States

Bigelow Monument

United States

Birthplace of Seattle Monument

United States

Boll Weevil Monument

United States

Borda House, Mexico City

Mexico

Boston Massacre Monument

United States

Bracero Monument

United States

British Columbia Law Enforcement Memorial

Canada

British Columbia Legislature Cenotaph

Canada

British Columbia Search and Rescue Volunteer Memorial

Canada

Brock's Monument

Canada

Brunet Castle

Chile

Bunker Hill Monument

United States

Bust of Francisca Benicia Carrillo de Vallejo

United States

Bust of Roman Shukhevych

Canada

California Volunteers (sculpture)

United States

Camden Confederate Monument

United States

Camp Horn Monument

United States

Camp Release State Monument

United States

Canadian totem

Mexico

Capilla del Carmen (Valparaíso)

Chile

Captain Nathan Hale Monument

United States

Captain William Clark Monument

United States

Carnegie Education Pavilion

United States

Carrera Theater (Guatemala)

Guatemala

Casa del Fundador Gonzalo Suárez Rendón

Colombia

Casa do Baile

Brazil

Casa matriz del Banco de Chile

Chile

Casimir Pulaski Monument (Savannah, Georgia)

United States

Celebration of Life Monument

United States

Central Campus of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso

Chile

Chapultepec aqueduct

Mexico

Chief Menominee Memorial Site

United States

Chkalov Transpolar Flight Monument

United States

Christ the Redeemer (statue)

Brazil

Christopher Columbus Monument (West Orange, New Jersey)

United States

Church of Our Lady of Mercy (João Pessoa)

Brazil

CIA Memorial Wall

United States

Ciudad Mitad del Mundo

Ecuador

Civil War Monument (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

United States

Civil War Monument (Denver)

United States

Civil War Unknowns Monument

United States

Clarksville Confederate Monument

United States

Cojines del Zaque

Colombia

Columbus Circle

United States

Columbus Fountain

United States

Columbus Monument (New York City)

United States

Columbus Police Memorial

United States

Confederate Defenders of Charleston

United States

Confederate Last Stand Monument

United States

Confederate Martyrs Monument in Jeffersontown

United States

Confederate Monument (Ashville, Alabama)

United States

Confederate Monument (Camden, Alabama)

United States

Confederate Monument (Fort Payne, Alabama)

United States

Confederate Monument (Franklin, Tennessee)

United States

Confederate Monument (Greenville, South Carolina)

United States

Confederate Monument (Gulfport, Mississippi)

United States

Confederate Monument (Liberty, Mississippi)

United States

Confederate Monument (Oxford, Mississippi)

United States

Confederate Monument (Ozark, Alabama)

United States

Confederate Monument (Troy, Alabama)

United States

Confederate Monument (Union City, Tennessee)

United States

Confederate Private Monument

United States

Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Baltimore)

United States

Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Birmingham, Alabama)

United States

Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Georgetown, Texas)

United States

Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Indianapolis)

United States

Confederate Soldiers Monument (Austin, Texas)

United States

Contando a féria

Brazil

Copán Altar Q

Shukuup Empire

Corona Founders Monument

United States

Cripta de los Héroes (Tacna)

Chile

Cristo de Chiapas

Mexico

Cristo de la Concordia

Bolivia

Cristo Rey (Colombian statue)

Colombia

Cristo Rey (Silao)

Mexico

Cross of Gaspé

Canada

Cruz de Clavos

Mexico

Cruz del Tercer Milenio

Chile

Daniel Morgan Monument

United States

DeKalb County Confederate Monument

United States

Delaware Confederate Monument

United States

Delaware–Maryland–Pennsylvania Tri-State Point

United States

Denmark Vesey Monument

United States

Dighton Rock

United States

Dona Joaninha

Brazil

Dorchester Heights Monument

United States

Doubleday Hill Monument

United States

Dream (Salas)

United States

Drums of Our Fathers Monument

Belize

Dual State Monument

United States

Ebenezer Monument

United States

Edificio Armada de Chile

Chile

Edificio Luis Cousiño

Chile

El Colotero

Mexico

El Dorado Confederate Monument

United States

El Gato del Río

Colombia

El Peral funicular

Chile

El poder brutal

Ecuador

El Sereno (sculpture)

Mexico

Elijah P. Lovejoy Monument

United States

Emancipation Memorial

United States

Equestrian statue of David McMurtrie Gregg

United States

Equestrian statue of Edward VII (Toronto)

Canada

Equestrian statue of Emiliano Zapata (Los Angeles)

United States

Equestrian statue of Francisco Pizarro (Lima)

Peru

Equestrian statue of George Washington (Washington Circle)

United States

Equestrian statue of John A. Logan

United States

Equestrian statue of José María Morelos (Los Angeles)

United States

Equestrian statue of Pedro I

Brazil

Equestrian statue of Stonewall Jackson (Charlottesville, Virginia)

United States

Esperanza Stone

Mexico

Estela de Luz

Mexico

Eternal Light Peace Memorial

United States

Ether Monument

United States

Fallen Paramedics Memorial

Canada

Fallen Worker Memorial

United States

Faro del Comercio

Mexico

Father Millet Cross

United States

Firemen's Memorial (Manhattan)

United States

First Division Monument

United States

First State National Monument

United States

Flag Square of Santo Domingo

Dominican Republic

Flame of Hope (diabetes)

Canada

Flood Marker of 1771

United States

Fort George, Jamaica

Jamaica

Fort Tauco

Chile

Fountain of Mundéu

Brazil

Frederick Douglass Memorial

United States

Frederick Lauer Monument

United States

Freedom Monument (Trujillo)

Peru

Fuente China

Peru

Fuente de Petróleos

Mexico

Fundadores de São Paulo

Brazil

Garden of the Triple Alliance

Mexico

Garfield Monument (San Francisco)

United States

Gate of the Sun

Bolivia

Gateway Arch

United States

Gateway of Dreams

United States

General William Jenkins Worth Monument

United States

George Gordon Meade Memorial

United States

George Thorndike Angell Memorial

United States

George Washington on Horseback

United States

Georgetown Cenotaph

Guyana

Georgia Guidestones

United States

Giuseppe Verdi Monument

United States

Giuseppe Verdi Monument (San Francisco)

United States

Glorieta de las mujeres que luchan

Mexico

Glory and Victory

Chile

Goethals Monument

Panama

Goethe Monument (Chicago)

United States

Goethe–Schiller Monument (San Francisco)

United States

Golden Fire Hydrant

United States

Golden spike

United States

Groton Monument

United States

Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, Notre Dame

United States

Hail to the Sunrise

United States

Halyburton Memorial

United States

Hanging Garden of Valongo

Brazil

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Monument

United States

Hermann Heights Monument

United States

High Water Mark of the Rebellion Monument

United States

Hollywood Walk of Fame

United States

Hoo-Hoo Monument

United States

Hood's Texas Brigade Monument

United States

Hot Springs Confederate Monument

United States

Houses of the Mayorazgo de Guerrero

Mexico

Howitzer Monument

United States

Hunzahúa Well

Colombia

Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes (Papudo)

Chile

Indiana 9/11 Memorial

United States

Indio Comahue Monument

Argentina

Initial Point (Oklahoma)

United States

International Friendship Bell

United States

Irish Commemorative Stone

Canada

J. E. B. Stuart Monument

United States

Jackson County Monument

United States

James A. Garfield Monument

United States

James Oglethorpe Monument

United States

John C. Calhoun Monument

United States

John the Baptist Monument

Venezuela

John Young Monument

Canada

José Martí Anti-Imperialist Platform

Cuba

Katyń Memorial (Niles, Illinois)

United States

Kentucky War Memorial

United States

King of Prussia Volunteer Fire Company 9/11 Memorial

United States

Kirkland Lake Miners' Memorial

Canada

Korean Bell of Friendship

United States

Korean Friendship Pavilion, Mexico

Mexico

Korean migration to Mexico centennial monument

Mexico

Kosciuszko's Monument (West Point)

United States

La Cruz del Viajero

Peru

La Pila fountain

Mexico

La Victoria del Viento

Mexico

La X (sculpture)

Mexico

Lake Village Confederate Monument

United States

Laos Memorial

United States

Last spike (Canadian Pacific Railway)

Canada

Lewis County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument

United States

Lion of Belfort (Montreal)

Canada

Llama de la Libertad

Chile

Lone Cedar Tree

United States

Lonoke Confederate Monument

United States

Los Angeles Kings Monument

United States

Lucy the Elephant

United States

Ludlow Tent Colony Site

United States

Luis Muñoz Rivera (Ponce statue)

United States

Lundeberg Derby Monument

United States

Macdonald Monument

Canada

Madonna of the Trail

United States

Maisonneuve Monument

Canada

Marco Zero (São Paulo)

Brazil

Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial (Compton)

United States

Matagorda County Monument

United States

Matthew Fontaine Maury Monument

United States

Matthew Stanford Robison Memorial

United States

McClellan Gate

United States

Mechanics Monument

United States

Memorial Fountain

United States

Memorial to the Soviet Internationalist Soldier

Cuba

Meriwether Monument

United States

Michigan Memorial

United States

Military Women's Memorial

United States

Monticello Confederate Monument

United States

Monument Abertura dos Portos

Brazil

Monument au Fantôme

United States

Monument of States

United States

Monument One

Canada

Monument to Andrés Sánchez Magallanes

Mexico

Monument to Bartolomé Herrera

Peru

Monument to Brazilian Literature

Brazil

Monument to Chabuca Granda

Peru

Monument to Christopher Columbus (Buenavista, Mexico City)

Mexico

Monument to Christopher Columbus (Buenos Aires)

Argentina

Monument to Christopher Columbus (Charles Cordier)

Mexico

Monument to Confederate Women

United States

Monument to Cuauhtémoc

Mexico

Monument to Enrico Martínez

Mexico

Monument to Hipólito Unanue

Peru

Monument to Ignacio Zaragoza

Mexico

Monument to Miguel Grau Seminario

Peru

Monument to North Carolina Women of the Confederacy

United States

Monument to Ramón Castilla (Lima)

Peru

Monument to Ramos de Azevedo

Brazil

Monument to Sebastián Lorente

Peru

Monument to the Bandeiras

Brazil

Monument to the Defenders of the Border

Peru

Monument to the Duke of Caxias

Brazil

Monument to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Peru

Monument to the Independence of Brazil

Brazil

Monument to the Suffragettes

Canada

Monument to the Victims of the USS Maine

Cuba

Monument to Women Memorial Garden

United States

Monumental Clock of Pachuca

Mexico

Monumento a la abolición de la esclavitud

United States

Monumento a la Madre, Mexico City

Mexico

Monumento a la Mujer

United States

Monumento a la Raza (Medellín)

Colombia

Monumento a la Raza (Neiva)

Colombia

Monumento a la Virgen de la Paz

Venezuela

Monumento a los Constructores

Mexico

Monumento a los Fundadores de Puebla

Mexico

Monumento a los héroes de El Polvorín (mausoleum)

United States

Monumento a los héroes de El Polvorín (obelisk)

United States

Monumento a los Indios Verdes

Mexico

Monumento a los Niños Héroes

Mexico

Monumento a los Niños Héroes (Guadalajara)

Mexico

Monumento al Jíbaro Puertorriqueño

United States

Monumento al perro callejero

Mexico

Monumento de la Fundación de México-Tenochtitlan

Mexico

Monumento de Santiago

Dominican Republic

Monumento El Cacahual

Cuba

Monumento Rodoviário da Rodovia Presidente Dutra

Brazil

Morgan Morgan Monument

United States

Mormon Battalion Monument (Salt Lake City)

United States

Mormon Trail Monument

United States

Morro Solar

Peru

Mothers of Gynecology Monument

United States

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Monument, Santiago

Chile

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Plaza (Santiago)

Chile

Nathanael Greene Monument

United States

National Holocaust Monument

Canada

National Monument to the Forefathers

United States

National Monument to the Immigrant

Brazil

National War Correspondents Memorial

United States

Nelsonville Cross

United States

Netherlands Carillon

United States

New York City AIDS Memorial

United States

New York State Monument

United States

Newkirk Viaduct Monument

United States

Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument

United States

Nobel Monument

United States

Norfolk Confederate Monument

United States

Notre Place Monument

Canada

Nuns of the Battlefield

United States

Obelisco (Guatemala City)

Guatemala

Obelisk of São Paulo

Brazil

Obelisk to the Defenders of Democracy

Peru

Octavius V. Catto Memorial

United States

Ohio Holocaust and Liberators Memorial

United States

OKARMO Corner

United States

OKKAMO Tri-State Marker

United States

Old Customs Building, Mexico City

Mexico

Old Quarter of Colon

Panama

Oneida Football Club Monument

United States

Orpheus with the Awkward Foot

United States

Palacio Baburizza

Chile

Palacio de los Capitanes Generales, Antigua Guatemala

Guatemala

Palacio del Marqués del Apartado

Mexico

Parents of Murdered Children Memorial

United States

Parque Reducto No. 2

Peru

Parque Reducto No. 5

Peru

Pasadena Robinson Memorial

United States

Paseo Los Próceres

Venezuela

Peace Arch

Canada

Peace Monument

United States

Peacekeeping Monument

Canada

Pentagon Memorial

United States

Perry Monument (Cleveland)

United States

Pilgrim Monument

United States

Pilots' Monument

United States

Pioneer Woman (Friedlander)

United States

Pioneer Woman Monument

United States

Pioneers' Obelisk (Montreal)

Canada

Polanco Lift

Chile

Polanco Palace

Chile

Pope John Paul II Memorial (Boston)

United States

Post One Monument

Canada

Powhatan's Chimney

United States

Prayer Book Cross

United States

Presidents North Carolina Gave the Nation

United States

Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument

United States

Progress of the State

United States

Puerta de los Leones

Mexico

Puerto Colombia Light

Colombia

Queen Elizabeth Way Monument

Canada

Reina Victoria lift

Chile

Reno Monument

United States

Robert Burns Memorial (Montreal)

Canada

Robert E. Lee Monument (Richmond, Virginia)

United States

Roddick Gates

Canada

Rotonda de los Jaliscienses Ilustres

Mexico

Rough Riders Memorial

United States

Royal Canadian Navy Monument

Canada

Sacred Hearts Church (Valparaíso)

Chile

Saint Augustine House

Mexico

Salvador Allende Monument (Montreal)

Canada

Salvation Mountain

United States

Samuel Noble Monument

United States

San Carlos Fortress

Mexico

San Francisco Comfort Women Memorial

United States

San Jacinto Monument

United States

San Juan de Ulúa

Mexico

San Patricio de Hibernia Monument

United States

Santa Rosa de la Eminencia castle

Venezuela

São Pedro clock

Brazil

Saratoga Battle Monument

United States

Scuola Italiana Arturo Dell' Oro

Chile

Seabees Memorial

United States

Seagull Monument

United States

Sedgwick County Memorial Hall and Soldiers and Sailors Monument

United States

Sergeant Floyd Monument

United States

Shakespeare Memorial (Philadelphia)

United States

Shevchenko Monument (Ottawa)

Canada

Sidney Lanier Monument

United States

Sitting Bull Monument

United States

Soldier's Monument (Byron, Illinois)

United States

Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Boston)

United States

Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Buffalo, New York)

United States

Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Delphi, Indiana)

United States

Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Nashua, New Hampshire)

United States

Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Troy, New York)

United States

Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Cleveland)

United States

Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Indianapolis)

United States

Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Manhattan)

United States

Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Rochester, New York)

United States

Soldiers' Monument (Bridgton, Maine)

United States

Soldiers' Monument (Santa Fe, New Mexico)

United States

Sons of San Patricio Monument

United States

Southernmost Point Buoy

United States

St. Paul's Cathedral, Valparaíso

Chile

Statue of Alexander Hamilton (Chicago)

United States

Statue of Alexander Macomb

United States

Statue of Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Mexico

Statue of Borba Gato

Brazil

Statue of Bruce Lee (Los Angeles)

United States

Statue of Carl Linnaeus

United States

Statue of Christopher Columbus (Miami)

United States

Statue of David Farragut (Washington, D.C.)

United States

Statue of Francis Scott Key (San Francisco)

United States

Statue of Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

United States

Statue of George Frisbie Hoar

United States

Statue of Horace Wells

United States

Statue of James Whitney

Canada

Statue of John A. Macdonald (Toronto)

Canada

Statue of John Peter Altgeld

United States

Statue of John V. Power

United States

Statue of Juan Ponce de León

United States

Statue of Leif Erikson (Chicago)

United States

Statue of Pope John Paul II (Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral)

Mexico

Statue of Robert Cavelier de La Salle

United States

Statue of Tadeusz Kościuszko (Washington, D.C.)

United States

Statue of the Marquis de Lafayette (Lafayette College)

United States

Statue of Ty Cobb

United States

Stephenson Grand Army of the Republic Memorial

United States

Stewart–Screven Monument

United States

Stoddard-Waite Monument

United States

Strawberry Schoolhouse

United States

Strengthen the Arm of Liberty Monument (Austin, Texas)

United States

Sugar House Monument

United States

Sunshine State Arch

United States

Tacna Parabolic Arch

Peru

Tejano Monument

United States

Ten Commandments Monument (Little Rock, Arkansas)

United States

Ten Commandments Monument (Oklahoma City)

United States

Texas African American History Memorial

United States

Texas Heroes Monument

United States

Texas Pioneer Woman Monument

United States

Texas World War II Memorial

United States

The Avenger (sculpture)

United States

The Cross at the Crossroads

United States

The Defenders of Fort Moultrie

United States

The Eye that Cries

Peru

The Good Darky

United States

Theodore Roosevelt Memorial (Portland, Oregon)

United States

Thomas Burke Monument

United States

Thomas Paine Monument

United States

Thomas W. Talbot Monument

United States

Thunder Mountain Monument

United States

Torre Monumental

Argentina

Trenton Battle Monument

United States

Trenton Cenotaph

Canada

Tri-States Monument

United States

Tribuna Monumental

Mexico

Tripoli Monument (sculpture)

United States

Trolleybuses in Valparaíso

Chile

Tucke Monument

United States

Turner Ashby Monument

United States

Ulysses S. Grant Monument

United States

United States Colored Troops Memorial Statue (Lexington Park, Maryland)

United States

Unknown Alabama Confederate Soldiers Monument

United States

Unsung Founders Memorial

United States

Valiants Memorial

Canada

Vallecito Bell Monument

United States

Venus Hill

United States

Veteran's Monument in Covington

United States

Vietnam Women's Memorial

United States

Vigilant Fire Company Firemen's Monument

United States

Virgen de La Puntilla, Mazatlán

Mexico

Virgin of El Panecillo

Ecuador

Virginia Washington Monument

United States

Virginia Women's Monument

United States

Volunteer Firemen Monument

United States

Wall of Tears (Galápagos Islands)

Ecuador

Wallace 1910 Fire Memorial

United States

Washington Crossing Monument

United States

Washington Monument (Baltimore)

United States

Washington Monument (Boonsboro, Maryland)

United States

Wesley Everest Gravesite

United States

Western Witness Monument

United States

Westinghouse Memorial

United States

Wilder Brigade Monument

United States

Wilfrid Laurier Memorial

Canada

William Jasper Monument

United States

William Lyon Mackenzie Monument

Canada

William McKinley Memorial

United States

World Trade Center cross

United States

World War I Monument

United States

Wyoming Monument

United States

Yorktown Victory Monument

United States

Zeppelin Tower

Brazil

Zero Milestone

United States

Zócalo (Puebla)

Mexico

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