The controversial Captain Cook’s memorial, where he met his violent end.
We are on the Big Island of Hawaii, precisely at Kealakekua Bay, where an 8-meters-high obelisk looms up from the coastal forest to remember the place where British explorer Captain […]
“Where Shute Fell”: an utter mystery for over a century.
Imagine walking during an excursion on the island in Spot Pond populated only by nesting cranes, and come across a cryptic stone marker. Wouldn’t you ask yourself what it could […]
The “Pig” on the Lion of Lucerne: the invisible joke of an Unpaid Sculptor.
The “Lion of Lucerne” is one of the most famous tourist attractions of the Swiss city: a mortally wounded lion, carved in the rock, in a large former sandstone quarry, […]
The William Wallace Monument, in memory of the Glorious Battle of Stirling Bridge.
The proud and combative Scottish, since ancient times, proved to be a people who, despite not having a single political, cultural and linguistic identity, gave a hard time to anyone […]
