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St. John's Episcopal Church
41.3958, -79.8289
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Frank & Nancy’s Marine Corps Museum
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Giant Squid Museum
43.5410, -6.5389
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The Old Limestone Arch
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Casma District, Peru
Cerro Sechin
The depictions of slaughter are surprisingly detailed at this mysterious ancient site.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Elephant Gate
Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.
Abava parish, Latvia
Pedvale Open Air Art Museum
Surreal works of unreal stone and metal dot the landscape of this Latvian art park.
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Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, The Original Ghost-Buster
An 18th-century sculptor's proto-selfies were supposed to scare off spirits, but mostly ended up ruining his reputation.
Clark County, Nevada
Double Negative
This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.
Berkeley, California
Mark Olivier's Yard Art
One man's prolific, decade-long quest to turn trash into artistic treasure.
sculptures
Fleeting Wonders: A Sculpture That Punished Texting Pedestrians
Ularring, Australia
Inside Australia
A series of eerie metal stick figures are spread out over four square miles on the bed of a huge salt lake in the Australian Outback.
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Fleeting Wonders: Zesty Sculptures Take Over A French Town
Costa Mesa, California
California Scenario
A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.
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Give Your Beloved a Sweet, Glistening Brain for Valentine’s Day
Phumi Khna RĂ´ngvoas, Cambodia
Kbal Spean
This Cambodian riverbed is covered in ancient Hindu carvings both above and below the waters.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Dude Chilling Park
A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.
Colmar, France
Bartholdi Museum
The birthplace of the builder of the Statue of Liberty is now a museum dedicated to his work.
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Unlike Iran's President, Queen Victoria Really Requested that Naked Statues Be Covered
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Tourists Love to Rub the Bronze Balls of Wall Street's Charging Bull Statue. Why?
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100 Years Ago, American Women Competed in Intense Venus de Milo Lookalike Contests
Yekaterinburg, Russia
Beatles Monument
Mostly underground in the old days Back in the USSR, today the Beatles beckon to tourists from a wall sculpture out in the open in central Russia.
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