Statues

Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.

A statue of the English poet for whom this Delaware town is named is ritually dressed in seasonally appropriate clothing.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

An unusual bronze bus shelter is actually an art installation commenting on the city's history with the Nazi party.

At 929 pounds and 26 feet tall, this stainless steel fork can only be used by the likes of King Kong.

A bronze monument to Cleveland's favorite, fastest son.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.