Statue of Liberty
Lady Liberty, the copper colossus of New York Harbor
Statues & Monuments
Giant sculptures and carved monuments that prove humans love building really big versions of themselves.
Christ the Redeemer
Rio de Janeiro's open-armed icon atop Corcovado Mountain
Moai Heads
Easter Island's enigmatic stone guardians
Mount Rushmore
Four presidents carved into the granite of the Black Hills
Statue of Unity
The world's tallest statue, towering over India's Narmada Valley
Spring Temple Buddha
A colossal Vairocana Buddha in central China
Great Sphinx of Giza
The enigmatic limestone guardian of the Egyptian pyramids
Terracotta Warriors (single)
One soldier from an army of 8,000 buried with China's first emperor
Manneken Pis
Brussels' famously tiny statue of a boy doing what boys do
The Thinker by Rodin
The world's most famous sculpture of someone having a really hard think
Little Mermaid Copenhagen
Denmark's most visited and most vandalized bronze icon
The Little Mermaid Statue (Copenhagen)
A small bronze figure with an outsized reputation