Eleven stone men with a history of over 1,000 years are still standing on the Zhaosu Giant Grassland in Ili, Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region. The heads, faces and bodies of the statues were ...

Their shape—ranging from a straight-sided cylinder to a tapering cone, with a smaller cylinder on top—is similar to a style of woven grass hat ... their sides like giant stone hay bales.

If your ideal holiday involves hiking on gently sloping green hills while being watched by huge stone heads – imposing relics of a mysterious past – visiting Rapa Nui is money well spent.

How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui–also known as Easter Island–carved and raised, and why? Since Europeans arrived on this remote Pacific island over 300 years ago, controversy has ...