Gargoyles

This figure was carved in the likeness of a voyeur, so that every time he spied across the street, he would find only himself staring back.

A devilish mask still mocks a king’s rumored love nest across the street.

A pair of gargoyles peer into unsuspecting passengers at Denver’s conspiracy-packed airport.

The oldest stone lion in Okinawa survived a major battle during World War II.

A cornucopia of gargoyles adorns the oldest portion of Oxford’s Magdalen College.

Outside a small brewery, a Gothic fountain that once provided water to thirsty horses.

This small memorial honors a ferocious feline and local hero.

A vintage fire engine is hidden inside this World War I-era water tower.

The camera-toting gargoyle juts out from the exterior of a Gothic cathedral.

This 15th-century structure had a long, tortuous journey to its current location.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

Legend says if this neo-Gothic basilica is ever officially completed, the world will come to an end.

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

The gargoyles and grotesques of the 21st century are here—22 emoji built into a new building in the Netherlands.

A stone copper was sculpted on the wall of the Carlisle Cathedral to honor a local hero.