These photos are from the “Spomenik: The End of History” photo documentary project by Jan Kempenaers. They are part of a series of photographs of memorials in the former Yugoslavia commissioned in the 60’s and 70’s to commemorate Wolrd War II battles and concentration camps. Two of these monuments look marginally skateable. I tried to find the one on the right (Jasenovac, a network of concentration camps) on Google Maps, but it proved fruitless. If anyone else has better luck, let me know. Now that Yugoslavia is no more, these 25 monuments have all been abandoned and are in various states of disrepair. Truth.fully, theses two are barely interesting from a skating standpoint, but the rest of them are architecturally fantastic. Kempenaers exhibited the work and published a book in 2010. [Source: Sue Du Jour] – Thanks to Aaron Shims for the tip.

There was some brouhaha about virtual reality skating on the Viet Nam Veteran’s memorial in Tony Hawks Project 8. I can’t be sure about reactions to skating on the monument to fallen defenders in what the locals call the Homeland War in Croatia. Of course, it’s a different kind of memorial. The Wall is more like a giant tombstone, while this one is more of an undefined usable public space. I mean, you wouldn’t get mad at that little kid for laying on it, so skating on it isn’t that far of a stretch. Reminds me of a monument to capitalism in Michigan. More pictures at Big Creative Industries. – Thanks to Urban for the tip.

Here’s some cool architecture in Croatia that looks like it might be skateable. Even more so if you were 20 stories tall. – Thanks to Sk8 D for the tip. [Source: ArchDaily]