Gold To Rust: Monuments, Icons and Whitewashed History Book by Author Marques Vickers

“Gold to Rust: Monuments, Icons and Whitewashed History” is author Marques Vickers’ offbeat commentary and unconventional photographic journal. The edition includes travel impressions accumulated from over thirty years of travel spanning four continents. His photography documents and isolates unusual signage, monuments, and unorthodox sights frequently overlooked by traditional travel guides and journals.

Over seventy cultural monuments are highlighted including:

Alexandria Hotel Los Angeles
Architectural Bones
Artist Cemetery Statuary
Bach’s Leipzig Church Gig
Berlin Burial Dilemma
Berlin: Memorializing Dividing Demons
Bob Arneson’s Bricks
Bridge Love Locks
Bubblegum Alleys
California Admission Day Monument
California State Capitol Building
California’s Wine Industry
Cascade Mountain Abandoned Railroad Tunnels
Celebrity Burial Pilgrimages
Chambers Bay Monolithic Ruins
Charles Cros
Claude Nicolas Ledoux
Confederate Soldier Monuments in Western United States
Cultural Gluttony
Dijon’s Ancient Jewish Cemetery
Drive-In Theatres
Dumas Brothel
East German Border Guard Towers
Empty Open Air Cathedrals
Espresso Art
Father Junipero Serra
Fabrezan’s Village Windmill
Flooding Level Markings
Frauenlob: Medieval Rock Star
Gargoyles Atop Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral
German City Holocaust Sidewalk Memorials
Grand Park and Spring Street Junction
Halley’s Comet
Hearst Landmark Building
Jack London: Short Story Virtuoso
James Dean Memorial
Kennebunkport: Too Much Information Sign
Kiwi Bacon Sculpture
Liberty Belle Slot Machine: Birthplace of The One-Armed Bandit
Lil’ Sambo’s Heritage
Los Angeles’ Chinatown
Losing Everything
Lotta Crabtree’s Fountain
Lou Graham of Seattle
Lowest Rent Accommodations
Mainz’s Severed Extremity Sculptures
Mechanics Monument
Military Hardware Memorials
Modesto’s Keyboard Crosswalks
Montana State Prison
Murder Memorials
New Palace Hotel
Panama Canal Memories
Paul Revere’s Ride
Personalized Soldier Memorials
Pony Express Delivery Service
Racetrack Church
Raymond, Washington Iron Cut-Outs
Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken
Santiago de Compostela Pilgrimage
Single Building School Houses
Squatter’s Rights
Stock Market Casualties of 1929
Story in the Stones
Tiny Houses
Twilight Tourism
Vladimir Lenin’s Seattle Sculpture
Voyeurism Sculpture
Wilver Willie Stargell
Wrinkles of the City Wall Murals