12. Porcelain Tower of Nanjing, China

The Porcelain Tower of Nanjing was part of the Great Bao’en Temple; it was a pagoda built during the 15th-century Ming Dynasty, but was almost completely destroyed during the Taiping Rebellion. The Civil War lasted from 1850 until 1864 when Tianjing fell, and the tower was a casualty of the clashes.

It was gone to history after that, until a Chinese businessman donated 1 billion yuan for it to be reconstructed in the city of Nanjing. It now stands there again, and the few pieces from the original that were salvaged can be found on display in a nearby museum. You can’t see much of the old one, but the replica is alive and well!