Many of these are old Austro-Hungarian military tracks, created when the former empire needed to defend its Adriatic fleet, based in the Bay of Kotor, hand-crafted in monumental limestone, weaving through magnificent forest and towering mountains.
You don't even have to ask about the monumental Art Deco fixtures, the forest of glowing Edison bulbs or the availability of craft cocktails.
Today is the next step with 1 Heart 1 Tree that I created aiming to create a monumental artwork by projecting virtual forests on Paris' famous monuments, and I am already planning to do a world tour on the most famous monuments on the planet. 1 Heart 1 Tree is a collective artwork that plans to involve everybody to be part of this project and feel responsible and act for the next generations.
We'd come to see the over-wintering grounds of the monarch butterfly, where millions of mariposas gather in the mist-shrouded pine forests after a monumental migration from as far north as Canada.
Steidl has published Eggleston for a decade; two years ago, he produced an expanded, ten-volume, boxed edition of "The Democratic Forest," the artist's monumental 1989 work.
The monumental picture is suggestive of a burned-down forest, although the title "Dein Goldenes Haar, Margarethe" (Your Golden Hair, Margarethe) has a different connotation.
The Amazon rain forests are quickly being cut down at a monumental rate.
An example is Rowena Dring, whose works look from a distance like monumental paintings of generic landscape subjects, like streams, mountains, beaches and forests, but which up close are revealed to be dense, detailed compositions of stitched fabric.
Meanwhile, KL retains some of the past splendour of its tropical environment in pocket preserves like the Bukit Gasing Forest Park, and the little-known Forest Research Institute Malaysia, neighbourhoods like Taman TAR, and monumental landscapes like the Batu Caves.
Monumental flip books, super-sized odes to one of animation's oldest technologies, sprouted up in an ethereal New Hampshire forest over the summer thanks to an unexpected union between London architects and a troupe of New York City public school kids.
