Explore the top 9 most popular monuments in the USA, from the Statue of Liberty to the Lincoln Memorial. Discover the history ...

The world's largest monument is also one of the world's slowest to build. In South Dakota, 70 years have passed since one man — and later his family — began to sculpt Crazy Horse, a famous ...

With an estimated completion height of 563 feet, the memorial honoring Lakota leader Crazy Horse is on track to be one of the largest sculptures in the world. Someday.

But the monument also feels, at certain moments, more like a shrine to its presiding genius, the Polish-American sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski — a figure of undoubted brilliance and a certain ...

The Chief persuaded Korczak to return, and he began work on the massive image of Chief Crazy Horse in 1947. He worked on it until his death in 1982, and his family continues that effort today.

If you built a Native American monument based on his book alone, in other words, it might look a bit like Crazy Horse emerging from the mountainside at full gallop.

The Black Hills of South Dakota are a land of breathtaking beauty and fierce meaning, a region where two colossal monuments—Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse Memorial—stand as rival storytellers.

CRAZY HORSE, S.D. -- At Mount Rushmore, more than 2.5 million visitors each year trade stares with presidents Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Lincoln. Carved into a mountain 17 miles ...

Crazy Horse, or Tasunke Witko, was born around 1840 in the midst of a war. The Lakota Nation had launched a concentrated expansion into the Trans-Mississippi West and was fighting several other ...

More than 4,000 people hiked to the top of the Crazy Horse Monument Saturday during the annual Volksmarch. The organized hike draws thousands of people to the Southern Black Hills ...