and the rest are spread from Istanbul to New York City. Click on the labeled map below to view and review the world's 12 mightiest standing monoliths.

The monolith is basically a 3 m (9.8 ft)-tall pillar made of metal sheets riveted into a triangular prism, eerily reminiscent of the monoliths featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey, an iconic 1968 ...