Murals

This public art pays homage to the baseball legend and civil rights icon and his time in Montreal.

During the renovation of this bas-relief, the constructors added one unusual element.

Hundreds of graffiti artists have decorated this flood-wall on the west bank of the Mississippi River.

Salina's eye-catching giant mural depicting children at play is painted atop a century-old mill elevator.

A Google software engineer's Easter egg led to what may be the world's most unusual saved screenshot.

Decorated with a staggering 1,380 ladybugs, the installation has turned what was once a grim, forgotten nickel mine into a landmark and a statement.

A former smithy turned cultural hub with the capital's largest mural space.

A prime example of socialist modernist architecture, wrapped in a enormous fresco about the media.

A vibrant, 100-foot-tall mural dedicated to Evelyn Nesbit, the tragic icon of the Gilded Age.

In an alley behind a Fargo bar, you can roleplay as Mario while interacting with a popular street mural.

A residential service road transformed into a menagerie of larger-than-life paintings of iconic Arctic wildlife.

The largest mural in the world painted by a single artist.

Remarkable medieval wall paintings decorate this 12th-century, dog-friendly church.

A socialist building dedicated to teachers showcases one of the largest Soviet mosaics in the world.

A neighborhood represented by an apparent geocentric and flat-earth model of the Solar System is hidden in the subway of Madrid.

This is an amazing but little known tile mosaic mural that used to grace the lobby of an office building in 1958, but now can only be seen from the second floor of a Shoppers Drug Mart.

These large-scale reproductions of Mario Sanchez’s colorful pictures and murals feel like a walk around a small movie set, and also lead you down an imaginary “street” of past decades.