Statues

This spot memorializes one of the greatest plays in NFL history, unless you happen to be a Raiders fan.

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

A bus with a butt and biceps to put Olympic athletes to shame.

An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

This abandoned Abraham Lincoln statue has also earned the honorary of "World's Ugliest."

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

Who is this marble man, perpetually creeping up the steps of his own mausoleum?

A flying saucer has landed for good in the middle of a tiny Canadian town.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

One of the bloodiest and most important battles in Japanese history is recreated with kitschy concrete statues.

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.