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Monuments

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It Wasn't Meant To End Like This. (Creative Review)

Aarhus, Denmark

It Wasn't Meant To End Like This

Digger attempting to hide itself under 300 tons of rubble.

Giant skeleton sculpture.

Calamita Cosmica

The giant skeleton sculpture is surprisingly well-traveled.

The world's largest popcorn ball. (The Popcorn Factory)

World's Largest Popcorn Ball

Eight feet in diameter and more than 24 feet around.

Zizkov Tower. (freefoto/Flickr)

Prague, Czechia

Žižkov Tower

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

Fontana Dei Matti

Fountain where visitors can earn a license to be mad.

Ether Monument. (Wikimedia Commons)

Boston, Massachusetts

Ether Monument

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

Entrance to Bohemian National Cemetery. (Wikimedia Commons)

Chicago, Illinois

Bohemian National Cemetery

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Dixie Cup Water Tower. (Creative Commons)

Lexington, Kentucky

Dixie Cup Water Tower

Unique tower has outlasted a takeover of the company.

Permanently Closed

The entirety of the front yard of Jack Barker's workshop. (Anne Remy/Atlas Obscura)

Essex, Illinois

Jack Barker's Metal Art Sculpture Garden

Moving, mind-blowing metal sculpture work of an outsider artist.

Permanently Closed

World's Tallest Lego Tower.

São Paulo, Brazil

Former World's Tallest Lego Tower

Many cities have held the title, but Brazil snatched the crown from Chile in 2011.

Hakone Open-Air Museum

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

History of Humanity

Felicity, California

Felicity, California: Center of the World

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

(Press photo)

Davis Station, Antarctica

Antarctic Sculpture Garden

Antarctica's only sculpture garden, it has art and penguins, but no plants in sight.

Davis, California

Eggheads

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

Guangzhou, China

Whitewater Village Scenic Area

Man-made waterfall is the tallest in Mainland China.

The Calder Stones. (Geograph)

Liverpool, England

The Calderstones

Six neolithic sandstone boulders remaining from a dolmen.

La Crosse, Wisconsin

World's Largest Six-Pack

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

Huntsville, Texas

Sam Houston Statue

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.