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List of modern obelisks

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This is a list of all obelisks built after the 16th century. See List of obelisks in Rome, List of Egyptian obelisks for some ancient obelisks.

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Obelisk name	Image	Location	Country	Elevation		Completed	Coordinates	Notes
Obelisk name	Image	Location	Country	m	ft	Completed	Coordinates	Notes
Fontaine des Quatre Dauphins		Aix-en-Provence	France			1667	43°31′35″N 5°26′44″E

Obelisk name	Image	Location	Country	Elevation		Completed	Coordinates	Notes
Obelisk name	Image	Location	Country	m	ft	Completed	Coordinates	Notes
Market Square obelisk		Ripon	United Kingdom	24	80	1702	54°08′11″N 1°31′25″W	The first large scale obelisk in Britain.^[1]
Stillorgan Obelisk		Stillorgan, Dublin	Ireland	30	100	1727	53°17′12″N 6°10′53″W
St. Bartholomäi Church		Dessau-Roßlau	Germany	42	138	1722–25. Spire by Carlo Ignazio Pozzi	51°50′23″N 12°16′26″E	height of obelisk: 18 metres
St Luke Church		London	United Kingdom			circa 1727–33. Spire by Nicholas Hawksmoor	51°31′31″N 0°05′39″W
Queen Anne Obelisk		Wentworth Castle, Yorkshire	England			1734	53°31′19″N 1°30′03″W	Designed by James Gibbs for Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
Boyne Obelisk		Oldbridge, County Louth	Ireland	53	174	1736	53°43′31″N 6°25′00″W	Erected to commemorate William of Orange's victory at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, and was the tallest obelisk in Europe at the time of its construction. It was destroyed in 1923, with only the base remaining in place.
Queen Square Obelisk		Bath	United Kingdom	15	49	1738	51°23′00″N 2°21′49″W
Conolly's Folly		Leixlip, County Kildare	Ireland	43	140	1740	53°22′10″N 6°33′36″W
Killiney Hill Obelisk		Killiney, County Dublin	Ireland			1742	53°15′56″N 6°06′43″W
Mamhead obelisk		Mamhead	United Kingdom	30	100	1742–1745	50°37′00″N 3°31′14″W	An aid to shipping.^[2]
Umberslade Obelisk		Umberslade Hall, Nuthurst, Warwickshire	United Kingdom	21	70	1749	52°20′32″N 1°47′17″W
General Wolfe's Obelisk		Stowe School, Buckinghamshire	United Kingdom			1754	52°02′32″N 1°01′04″W
Montreal Park Obelisk		Riverhead, Sevenoaks, Kent	United Kingdom			1761	51°16′29″N 0°09′59″E	Lord Jeffery Amherst's Obelisk.^[3]
St George's Circus Obelisk		St George's Circus, London	United Kingdom			1771	51°29′55″N 0°06′17″W	Obelisk by Robert Mylne.
Kagul Obelisk		Tsarskoe Selo	Russia			1772	59°42′52″N 30°23′32″E
Mautpyramide		Marktbreit	Germany	10	33	1773	49°37′18″N 10°06′58″E	marked the end of the section of the road Würzburg-Ansbach in the Principality of Ansbach. Originally situated on a refuge island on the road Würzburg-Ansbach, rebuilt after collision with a truck on December 3, 2010, next to the road
Chesma Obelisk(ru)		Gatchina	Russia			1775	59°34′01″N 30°06′17″E
Liberty Memorial, Copenhagen		Vesterbrogade, Copenhagen	Denmark	20	66	1788	55°40′27″N 12°33′48″E	Erected in memory of the peasant reforms in 1788 which led to the abolition of adscription (Danish: Stavnsbåndet).
Villa Medici		Rome	Italy			1790	41°54′32″N 12°28′59″E	A 19th-century copy of the Egyptian obelisk moved to the Boboli Gardens in Florence
Obelisk Fountain		James St., Dublin	Ireland			1790	53°20′36″N 6°17′25″W
Summerhill Obelisk		Dangan Castle	Ireland			1790	53°30′43″N 6°44′54″W	Restored and repaired to its original height in 2014 with the original brick and other materials.
Constable Obelisk		Gatchina Palace, Gatchina	Russia			1793	59°33′36″N 30°06′47″E
Moore-Vallotton Incident marker		Wexford	Ireland			1793	52°20′25″N 6°28′19″W	^[4]
Rumyantsev Obelisk		St Petersburg	Russia	21	70	1799	59°56′18″N 30°17′33″E
Obelisk at Slottsbacken		Stockholm	Sweden	30	98	1800	59°19′33″N 18°04′17″E	Dismantled in 2017 and rebuilt in 2020.^[5]

Obelisk name	Image	Location	Country	Elevation		Completed	Coordinates	Notes
Obelisk name	Image	Location	Country	m	ft	Completed	Coordinates	Notes
Nelson memorial		Springfield Park Liverpool, England	United Kingdom			circa 1805	53°25′06″N 02°53′54″W	Erected to the memory of Admiral Lord Nelson^[6]
Nelson Monument		Portsmouth Harbour	United Kingdom	37	120	1808	50°51′38″N 1°08′03″W
St. Emmeram's Palace Obelisk		Regensburg, Bavaria	Germany			circa 1810	49°00′57.07″N 12°05′32.68″E
Wandersmann		Hofheim am Taunus	Germany	11	36	1813	50°03′23″N 8°23′02″E
Constitution Obelisk		St. Augustine, Florida	United States			1814	29°53′35.38″N 81°18′15.53″W	In commemoration of the Spanish Constitution of 1812
Brightling Needle		Brightling, East Sussex	United Kingdom	20	65	circa 1815	50°57′57.96″N 0°22′37.25″E	^[7]
Patriots' Grave, Old Burying Ground		Arlington, Massachusetts	United States			1818	42°24′58″N 71°09′31″W
George IV Monument		Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin	Ireland			1823	53°17′37.72″N 6°07′54.44″W
Blantyre Monument		Erskine, Renfrewshire	United Kingdom	24	80	circa 1825	55°54′56.54″N 4°29′45.29″W	^[8]
Workers Monument		Grochów, Warsaw	Poland			1825	52°14′45.81″N 21°04′35.32″E
Lublin Union Monument		Lublin	Poland	13	43	1826	51°14′53.39″N 22°33′37.2″E	^[9]
Captain Cook's Monument		Easby Moor, Great Ayton, North Yorkshire	United Kingdom	15.5	51	1827	54°28′58.88″N 1°05′26.95″W	^[10]
Groton Monument		Fort Griswold, Groton, Connecticut	United States	41	135	1830	41°21′18″N 72°4′46″W	^[11]
Bunker Hill Monument		Charlestown, Massachusetts	United States	67	221	1827-43	42°22′35″N 71°03′41″W	^[12]
Spencer Monument		Blata l-Bajda	Malta			1831 (relocated 1893)	35°53′17″N 14°29′53″E	^[13]
Obelisk in Odinslund		Uppsala	Sweden			1832	59°51′25″N 17°37′56″E	In memory of king Gustav II Adolf, donated by king Charles XIV John.^[14]
Thomas Jefferson Obelisk, Monticello		Charlottesville, Virginia	United States			1833	38°00′37″N 78°27′08″W	Erected by his family, Jefferson had willed that only three achievements be sketched onto it: Author of the Declaration of Independence, author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.^[15]
Munich obelisk		Munich	Germany	29	95	1833	48°08′41″N 11°34′09″E
Obelisk of Lions, Copou Park		Iași	Romania	13.5	44	1834	47°10′43″N 27°34′01″E	^[16]
Villa Torlonia		Rome	Italy			1842	41°54′50″N 12°30′43″E	Two obelisks
Obelisk of Piazza Gioberti		Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna	Italy			1842	44°42′0″N 10°38′0″E	Commemorates marriage of Francis V, Duke of Modena to princess Adelgunde of Bavaria
Rutherford's Monument		Anwoth, Scotland	United Kingdom			1842	54°52′37.71″N 4°12′10.39″W	A memorial to Samuel Rutherford^[17]
Political Martyrs' Monument		Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland	United Kingdom	27	90	1844	55°57′12″N 3°11′9″W	^[18]
Lansdowne Monument		Wiltshire, England	United Kingdom	38	125	1845	51°25′22″N 1°55′58″W	Erected by the 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne to commemorate Sir William Petty.^[19]
The Obelisk		Newcastle, New South Wales	Australia			1850	32°55′55.06″S 151°46′43.8″E
Wellington Monument		Wellington, Somerset	United Kingdom	53	175	1854	50°56′53″N 3°13′45″W	^[20]
Stoodley Pike Monument		Todmorden, West Yorkshire	United Kingdom	37	121	1856	53°42′51″N 2°2′33″W	^[21]
Hyde Park Obelisk		Sydney, New South Wales	Australia	22	72	1857	33°52′29″S 151°12′36″E	^[22]
Herndon Monument		Annapolis, Maryland	United States	6.4	21	1860	38°58′56″N 76°29′09″W	Erected by the US Naval Academy to commemorate the loss of William Lewis Herndon.
Obelisk of Fontenoy		Fontenoy, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté	France			1860	47°38′35.57″N 3°18′44.82″E
Wellington Monument		Phoenix Park, Dublin	Ireland	62	203	1861	53°20′57″N 6°18′11″W	The tallest in Europe.
Prince of Wales' Obelisk		Port Elizabeth	South Africa				33°58′39.86″S 25°38′57.49″E	Intended for one George Kemp but erected to commemorate the marriage of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales and Alexandra of Denmark in 1861. Originally on Market Square, now in front of the Bayworld Museum Complex.^{[citation needed]}
Lincoln Tomb		Springfield, Illinois	United States	36	117	1865	39°49′24″N 89°39′21″W	^[23]
Tyndale Monument		North Nibley, Gloucestershire	United Kingdom	34	111	1866	51°39′32″N 2°22′21″W
Treue der Union Monument		Comfort, Texas	United States			1866	29°58′11″N 98°54′50″W
Nicholson's Obelisk		Margalla Hills, Rawalpindi–Islamabad	Pakistan	12	40	1868	33°42′11.12″N 72°49′29.4″E	^[24]
Hamilton Monument		Skerries, Dublin	Ireland			1870	53°34′50.47″N 6°06′25.3″E
Captain Cook Obelisk		Kurnell, New South Wales	Australia			1870	34°00′17″S 151°13′03″E	^[25]
Obelisk of April's Peace		San José de Mayo, San José	Uruguay			1873	34°20′22.32″S 56°42′49.84″W
Dauphin County Veteran's Memorial Obelisk		Harrisburg, Pennsylvania	United States	34	110	1876	40°15′47″N 76°53′13″W	^[26]
Washington Monument		Washington, D.C.	United States	169	555	1884	38°53′22″N 77°02′07″W	^[27]
Oriskany Battlefield monument		Rome, New York	United States			1884	43°10′7″N 75°22′8″W	^[28]
Monument to the Restorers		Restauradores Square, Lisbon	Portugal	15	48	1886	38°42′57″N 9°8′30″W	Erected to celebrate the victory in the Portuguese Restoration War (1640–1668).
Ludwig van Beethoven's grave		Vienna Central Cemetery	Austria			1888	48°09′07″N 16°26′24″E
Bennington Battle Monument		Bennington, Vermont	United States	92 or 93	301 or 306	1889	42°53′21″N 73°12′57″W	^[29]
Monolith "The Obelisk"		Villalar de los Comuneros, Castile and León	Spain			1889	41°33′00″N 5°08′19″W
Dalhousie Obelisk		Raffles Place, Central Area	Singapore			1891	1°17′15″N 103°51′8″E	^[30]
The Obelisk, Penn State University		University Park, Pennsylvania	United States			1896	40°47′43″N 77°51′48″W
Confederate War Memorial		Dallas, Texas	United States			1896	32°46′32″N 96°47′59″W	^[31]
Obelisk Anspach		Brussels	Belgium			1897	50°51′12.95″N 4°20′48.72″E

Obelisk name	Image	Location	Country	Elevation		Completed	Coordinates	Notes
Obelisk name	Image	Location	Country	m	ft	Completed	Coordinates	Notes
William Dudley Chipley Memorial		Plaza Ferdinand VII, Pensacola, Florida	United States			1901	30°24′31.7″N 87°12′50.24″W
Sergeant Floyd Monument		Sioux City, Iowa	United States	30	100	1901	42°27′45″N 96°22′39″W	^[32]
Joseph Smith Birthplace Memorial		South Royalton, Vermont	United States	15	50	1905	43°49′26″N 72°28′21″W	^[33]^: 118
McKinley Monument		Niagara Square, Buffalo, New York	United States	29	96	1907	42°53′11″N 78°52′41″W	^[34]
The Veterans' Monument		Elizabethton, Tennessee	United States			1904	36°20′55″N 82°12′38″W	Dedicated to American Civil War veterans from Carter County, Tennessee.
Samuel Smith Monument		Sefton Park, Liverpool	United Kingdom			1909	53°23′09.67″N 02°56′43.08″W	Designed by C.J. Allen as a memorial to local MP and philanthropist. Granite, with bronze plaques.^[35]
Finn's Point National Cemetery		Pennsville Township, New Jersey	United States	26	85	1910	39°36′42″N 75°33′22″W	Erected by the U.S. government in 1910 to memorialize Confederate soldiers buried at the cemetery.
Coronation Memorial		Coronation Park, Delhi	India				28°43′23″N 77°11′49″E	To commemorate the founding of New Delhi in 1911 followed by other obelisks around the Rashtrapati Bhavan
Victory Memorial		Fort Recovery, Ohio	United States	31	101	1913	40°24′48″N 84°46′33″W	^[36]
Rizal Monument		Luneta Park, Manila	Philippines	12.7	42	1913	14°34′54″N 120°58′36″E	built to commemorate the executed Filipino nationalist, José Rizal.
National Women's Monument		Bloemfontein	South Africa			1913	29°08′30″S 26°12′30″E	^[37]
Ozark Trail		Various locations including Stroud, Oklahoma, Farwell, Dimmitt, Wellington, and Tulia, Texas	United States			1913		Formerly a series of 21 obelisks
PAX Memorial		Walmer, Port Elizabeth	South Africa	6	20	1919	33°58′28″S 25°34′29″E	A World War I memorial to local fallen soldiers.^[38]
Dover Patrol Monument		St Margaret's at Cliffe	United Kingdom	23	75	1919	51°9′24.71″N 1°23′33.55″E	Erected to honour Dover Patrol.
Flagler Monument		Flagler Monument Island, Miami Beach, Florida	United States	34	110	1920	25°47′07″N 80°09′10″W	^[39]
Dover Patrol Monument		Cap Blanc-Nez, Sangatte/Escalles	France	23	75	1922	50°55′29.42″N 1°42′35.57″E	Erected to honour Dover Patrol.
Southport War Memorial		London Square, Southport, Lancashire, England	United Kingdom	20.6	67.5	1923	53°38′55″N 3°00′16″W
Veterans Memorial Plaza		Indiana World War Memorial Plaza, Indianapolis, Indiana	United States	30	100	1923	39°46′25″N 86°9′25″W	^[40]
Jefferson Davis Monument		Fairview, Kentucky	United States	107	351	1924	36°50′31″N 87°18′01″W	Commemorating the birthplace of the President of the Confederate States of America
Boer War Monument		King's Domain, Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	23	75	1924	37°50′00″S 144°58′20″E (dismantled?)	^[41]
Camp Merritt Memorial Monument		Cresskill, New Jersey	United States	20	66	1924	40°56′28″N 73°58′37″W	Monument dedicated to the soldiers who passed through Camp Merritt, New Jersey, en route to Europe in World War I, particularly those who died at the camp due to the influenza epidemic of 1918
Hobart Cenotaph		Queens Domain, Hobart, Tasmania	Australia	23	75	1925	42°52′40″S 147°20′12″E	A World War I memorial^[42]
The Big Red Apple		Cornelia, Georgia	United States	2.4	8	1925	34°30′42″N 83°31′36″W	A short square obelisk with the world's largest apple on top stands^[43]
Prague Castle Obelisk (or Monolith from Mrákotín)		Prague Castle, Prague	Czech Republic	15.42	50.6	1930	50°5′25″N 14°24′1″E
Obelisk of Montevideo (or Obelisco a los Constituyentes de 1830)		Parque Batlle, Montevideo	Uruguay	40	130	1930	34°53′51″S 56°09′52″W	^[44]
High Point Monument		High Point, Montague, New Jersey	United States	67	220	1930	41°19′15″N 74°39′42″W	Located on top of New Jersey's highest point, 550 m (1,803 ft) above sea level.
Dover Patrol Monument		John Paul Jones Park, Brooklyn	United States	23	75	1931	40°36′41.18″N 74°2′3.01″W	Erected to honour Dover Patrol.
Foro Italico		Lungotevere Maresciallo Diaz, Rome	Italy			1932	41°55′55″N 12°27′32″E	Erected to honour Benito Mussolini.
Paterson Monument		Windmill Point, George Town, Tasmania	Australia			1935	41°06′35″S 146°49′01″E	Erected to commemorate the 1804 landing of William Paterson (explorer).^[45]
Gefallenendenkmal Mühlbach		Eppingen, Baden-Württemberg	Germany	24	79	1935	49°05′39″N 8°54′20″E
Obelisk of Buenos Aires		San Nicolás, Buenos Aires	Argentina	71.5	235	1936	34°36′13″S 58°22′54″W
Trujillo Obelisk		Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic	42	137	1937	18°27′53″N 69°53′38″W
War Memorial		Floriana	Malta			1938	35°53′37″N 14°30′29″E	^[46]
San Jacinto Monument		La Porte, Texas	United States	172.92	567.3	1939	29°45′00″N 95°04′51″W	^[47]
Trylon and Perisphere		1939 New York World's Fair, Flushing, New York	United States	190	620	1939	40°44′47″N 73°50′42″W	Not a true obelisk, but an art deco variant.
Maungakiekie Obelisk		One Tree Hill, Auckland	New Zealand			1940	36.900105°S 174.783187°E / -36.900105; 174.783187	^[48]
Victory Monument		Bangkok	Thailand			1941	13°45′53″N 100°32′19″E	To commemorate the Thai victory in the Franco-Thai War, a brief conflict waged against the French colonial authorities in Indo-China, which resulted in Thailand annexing some territories in western Cambodia and northern and southern Laos. These were among the territories which the Kingdom of Siam had been forced to cede to France in 1893 and 1904, and patriotic Thais considered them rightfully to belong to Thailand.
Plaza Francia Obelisk		Altamira, Caracas	Venezuela			1944	10°29′47″N 66°50′56″W
Banská Bystrica Obelisk		Banská Bystrica	Slovakia			1945	48°44′06″N 19°08′41″E	Commemorates the soldiers of the Red Army and those of the Romanian Army who fell while liberating the town.
Monument to the Fallen		Santa Cruz de Tenerife	Spain	25	82	1947	28°28′0.2″N 16°14′49.6″W
Cenotaph on Leinster Lawn		Leinster House, Dublin	Ireland	18.28	60.0	1950	53°20′26″N 6°15′14″W	Erected to commemorate the memories of Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins and Kevin O'Higgins;^[49] and replaced an earlier temporary cenotaph, erected in 1923.^[50]
Lucas Gusher Obelisk		Beaumont, Texas	United States			1951	30°02′01″N 94°04′45″W	Recognizes the 50th anniversary of the birth of the liquid fuel age as the Lucas Gusher came in at Spindletop on January 10, 1901.
Heroes Monument		Surabaya	Indonesia	41.15	135.0	1952	7°14′46″S 112°44′15″E	Commemorate the events of November 10, 1945, at the Battle of Surabaya
1947–1949 Palestine war Memorial		Safed	Israel				32°58′06″N 35°29′44″E
Obelisk of São Paulo		São Paulo	Brazil	72	236	1954	23°35′5″S 46°39′17″W	^[51]
Obelisks outside the Palace of Culture and Science		Warsaw	Poland			1955	52°13′50″N 21°00′32″E
Monument to the abolition of slavery (Monumento a la abolición de la esclavitud)		Abolition Park, Ponce	Puerto Rico	30	100	1956	18°00′21″N 66°36′46″W	^[52]
Obelisk of La Paz		La Paz	Bolivia				16°29′55″S 68°08′06″W
Demidovsky Pillar		Tsentralny City District, Barnaul, Altai Krai	Russia	14	46		53°19′43.8″N 83°47′3.6″E
Victory Obelisk (Poklonnaya Hill Obelisk)		Poklonnaya Hill, Moscow	Russia	141.8	465	1995	55°43′54″N 37°30′25″E	^[53]
Monument to the Conquerors of Space		Moscow	Russia	107	351	1964	55°49′21″N 37°38′23″E
Bayonet-Obelisk of the War Memorial		Brest Fortress, Brest	Belarus	100	330	1971	52°04′58″N 23°39′25″E	^[54]
Trinity Nuclear Test Site Obelisk		Jornada del Muerto, Socorro, New Mexico	United States	3.7	12		33°40′38″N 106°28′31″W	The location of the first atomic bomb explosion.^[55]
Iglica		Wroclaw	Poland	90	300	1948	51°06′27″N 17°04′32″E	original height 106 metres
Cairn to mark the Geographic Centre of North America		Rugby, North Dakota	United States	4.6	15	1971	48°21′16″N 99°59′53″W	The structure is more like a cairn sited near the geographical center of North America (Mexico, US and Canada). The location of the geographical center is approximately 15 miles (24 km) for the location of the cairn.^[56]
Pirulito da Praça Sete		Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais	Brazil				19°55′09″S 43°56′19″W
Oregon Trail		Boise, Idaho	United States					21 obelisks that mark the trail.^[57]^[58]
Islamic Summit Minar		Lahore, Punjab	Pakistan	47	155	1974	31°33′37″N 74°19′30″E	An obelisk-shape structure built to commemorate the Organisation of Islamic Conference.
Luxor Hotel		Las Vegas, Nevada	United States				36°05′44″N 115°10′24″W	The obelisk stands in front of the hotel, a pyramid-shaped hotel along The Strip
		Endicott, Triple Cities, New York	United States			1975		An obelisk stands in front of radio talk show host Clint Ferro's boyhood home^{[citation needed]}
Monumen Nasional		Merdeka Square, Jakarta	Indonesia	137	449	1975	6°10′31″S 106°49′38″E	Symbolizing the fight for the independence of Indonesia
Juche Tower		Pyongyang	North Korea	170	560	1982	39°01′03″N 125°45′49″E
Leningrad Hero City Obelisk		Vosstaniya Square, Saint Petersburg	Russia	36	118	1985	59°55′51″N 30°21′43″E
Minsk Hero City Obelisk		Victors Avenue, Minsk	Belarus	45	148	1985	53°54′57″N 27°32′17″E
1948 Arab–Israeli War Memorial		Ad Halom, Ashdod	Israel				31°46′55″N 34°39′59″E	Memorial to Egypt's fallen soldiers^[59]
Avis Obelisk		Avis Farms Office Park, Pittsfield Township, Michigan	United States			1998	42°12′47″N 83°44′46″W
Bahá'í House of Worship		Bahá'í World Centre buildings, Mount Carmel, Haifa	Israel			1971	32°49′22″N 34°58′33″E	Marking the site of the future Bahá'í House of Worship.
Independence Monument Obelisk		Maha Bandula Park, Yangon	Myanmar				16°46′23″N 96°09′34″E	^[60]

Obelisk name	Image	Location	Country	Elevation		Completed	Coordinates	Notes
Obelisk name	Image	Location	Country	m	ft	Completed	Coordinates	Notes
Spire of Dublin		Dublin	Ireland	120	390	2003	53°20′59″N 6°15′37″W
Capas National Shrine		Tarlac province	Philippines	70	230	2003	15°20′56″N 120°32′43″E	^{[citation needed]}
Kolonna Eterna		San Gwann	Malta	6	20	2003	35°54′35″N 14°28′36″E	Egyptian obelisk by Paul Vella Critien^[61]
Colonna Mediterranea		Luqa	Malta	3.0	10	2006	35°51′38″N 14°29′3″E	Abstract art by Paul Vella Critien^[62]
Plaza Salcedo Obelisk		Vigan, Ilocos Sur	Philippines				17°34′31″N 120°23′15″E
Colony Park Monument		Ridgeland, Mississippi	United States	58	190		32°26′49″N 90°08′47″W	cellphone tower in shape of Washington Monument
Cyclisk		Santa Rosa, California	United States	20	65		38°25′35″N 122°42′49″W	Made of 340 bicycles^[63]
Obelisco Novecento		Rome	Italy			2004	41°49′23″N 12°27′55″E	Sculpture by Arnaldo Pomodoro^{[citation needed]}
Armed Forces Memorial		National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire	United Kingdom			2007	52°43′39″N 1°43′39″W
Caja Madrid Obelisk		Madrid	Spain	92	302	2009	40°27′58″N 3°41′22″W
Särkynyt lyhty		Tornio, Lapland	Finland	9	30		65°50′47″N 24°09′09″E	Made of stainless steel^{[citation needed]}
Agostinho Neto Memorial		Luanda	Angola	120	390	2012	8°49′25″S 13°13′08″E
Oregon World War II Memorial		Salem, Oregon	United States			2014	44°56′22″N 123°01′59″W
Human rights obelisk		Brussels	Belgium	12	39	2018	50°52′08″N 4°20′40″E	The monument, consists of a stack of 30 coloured stones, includes all the articles of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in four languages - French, Dutch, German and English.^[64]

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