Lawrence Welk’s Birthplace if destroyed by a terrorist attack or more likely tornado, would not be replaced. Congress snubbed funding the first time around, and now twenty years later the donating fan base has died out.
The Bamyan Buddhas - this is the real legacy of the intolerance of the Taliban, hate filled oppressors, its the equivalent of book burning, and attempt to destroy and idea.
Yeah, I’ve been to the Bamyan site, it’s haunting because the alcoves for the statues are still there, like gaps in teeth.
Possibly apocryphal, but I’ve heard that the statue, which stands in the middle of an intersection, was once clobbered by the fire department. Supposedly the hook-and-ladder truck came racing down Prince St., and the front of the truck passed the statue on one side while the rear went for the other.
It’s been hit by many a car. I believe there is now a fence around it, but in the photo on Wikipedia there is no fence.
Well one that can’t be - in a sad statement on the conditions in Greece today, the remaining tree beneath which it’s purported that Plato taught his students, was cut down a couple days ago. It’s assumed that it was cut down for firewood by grecians attempting to avoid the new fuel tax.
I’ve passed that statue literally thousands of times, and never noticed what it was a statue of. Of course, I was almost always in a car or bus at the time.
Maybe not, but it’s the area’s most visible and recognizable landmark. I’d certainly hope it would be rebuilt if anything were to happen to it.
I can only hope they’d come up with something better. Korea and Vietnam have very moving, powerful memorials, and WWII got saddled with this dippy piece of bric-a-brac.
Some of the Old World landmarks wouldn’t be rebuilt:
The Colosseum, The Leaning Tower Of Pisa, The Pantheon come to mind.
Maybe The Hoover Dam- not sure if the US would sink that much money into it these days.
Read up on the history of the place- stones have been moved, set in concrete, re-erected in a way some random guy thought they looked better… It’s already been almost entirely reconstructed over the years…
Oh, and the obligatory SD nitpick- Big Ben is the name of the bell, the tower itself is either the Elizabeth tower, or just the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster. 
The memorial bust of Mr. Ed Blow (its in the restored Burlington, VT train station).
Ed was Joe’s lesser-known brother (janitor for 35 years at the train station).
Sheesh. Even for hard Northern partisans, I’d think that would be about the least-objectionable Confederate memorial possible. A simple acknowledgement of the men lost, without reference to any explicit cause.
You might as well advocate the non-replacement of the Vietnam memorial.
I left DC right before they put it up and returned just before they took it down. I think my first thought when I was it was, “Whua, did Cristo come to town?”
Replacing Teddy Roosevelt with FDR would be a crass insult to Teddy since Teddy Roosevelt was the president who started reserving exceptionally beautiful lands for National Parks. Like the one where Mt Rushmore stands.
Let FDR get his own mountain.
Hear, hear!
Sure a memorial to Confederate dead is perfectly acceptable. One honoring their leaders, especially that racist asshole Forrest (who has more memorials than any other general in the USA), is not.
I find this amazing. Cite?
Well, they didn’t do a very good job of preserving that particular mountain. I’m pretty sure it didn’t look like that originally.
Firstest with the mostest. 
I can only find secondary references at the moment: there are three different stories and it’s possible all are apocryphal. Supposedly Stonehenge was suggested for leveling because:
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[li]It provided a daymark for German bombers;[/li][li]It was a hazard to low-flying aircraft;[/li][li]It was in the way of a proposed airfield or its runway approaches.[/li][/ul]I will post a cite for any of these if I can find them.