On a small, lonely island in the Pacific, hundreds of stone faces stare toward the horizon. These are the Moai of Easter ...

The lights on the historic building at the Grand Place were switched off for one hour as part of the international "Earth Hour" campaign launched by the non-governmental organization WWF. Wiktor ...

These are just a few of the reasons the World Monuments Fund chose the 25 world monuments in its 2025 World Monuments Watch—they all face key threats to their preservation. The World Monuments Fund ...

Mount Rushmore was designed by Gutzon Borglum, an individual who eventually developed a relationship with the Ku Klux Klan (Borglum was also the artist initially approached to design Stone Mountain, ...

Mam Rashan Shrine, Mount Sinjar, Iraq, 2022. Mam Rashan was included on the 2020 World Monuments Watch following its destruction by Daesh (ISIS). Join us on Wednesday, January 15, as we unveil the ...

All over the world, there are statues and monument and most of them have different meanings and if you speak to the locals, there is always a story behind it. As the name suggests, this is a sculpture ...

The shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the longest day in the Southern Hemisphere has been marked around ...

The organization said that more than 90 important sites on the moon could risk destruction if space tourism is left unregulated. By Zachary Small For years, the World Monuments Fund has sought to draw ...

Just down the street from the Galveston shore, at Moody Gardens, sits a 28,000-square foot tent with 2 million pounds of ice inside it. Thirty ice carvers from Harbin, China, have spent the past month ...