In the Name of Love

Love Park in Philadelphia, PA, haven of skateboarders the world over, was named after the famous LOVE sculpture by artist Robert Indiana. The skateboarders have been banned, but LOVE remains! Robert Indiana created the LOVE sculpture as part of his series of  “sculptural poems”.

The Taj Mahal, otherwise known as the “elegy in marble”, was built by grief-stricken Shah Jahan after the death of his beloved wife, Queen Mumtaz Mahal. Built in Agra, India, during the 1600s, the Taj is the world’s most stunning mausoleum and monument of enduring love. Devoted to Queen Mahal until the very end, Shah Jahan was buried alongside her in the Taj Mahal for all eternity.

Coral Castle, located in Miami, Florida, was built by Latvian native, Edward Leedskalnin, in the early part of the 20th century. Agnes, the love of Edward’s life, left him the day before they were to be married. Edward spent the greater part of his life building a castle monument out of coral as a testimony to his lost love. Edward’s love for Agnes went unrequited until the day he died.

Star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet are forever immortalized in bronze in New York City’s Central Park. Romeo and Juliet is considered an iconic love story, a tale of tragic, thwarted love that belongs to a literary tradition going as far back as the Ancient Greeks. World-renowned sculpture and native New Yorker, Milton Hebald created the sculpture for the Delacorte Theater where most of the Shakespeare plays are performed in New York City.