1896 Items Tagged

Statues

Lövestad Carved Statues.

Lövestad Carved Statues

Rocks carved with biblical passages in the 1800s.

Big Apple. (Wikimedia Commons)

Yerrinbool, Australia

Big Apple

Entrance to a famous orchard with nine types of apples.

Big Ant. (Wikimedia Commons)

Broken Hill, Australia

Big Ant

Designed by artist Pro Hart, built elsewhere in 1980.

Permanently Closed

The Giant Mushroom.

Belconnen, Australia

Giant Mushroom

Children's playground hidden under a big pink and blue cap.

Lakenenland. (Creative Commons)

Marquette, Michigan

Lakenenland

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

Big Rig Jig. (Creative Commons)

Las Vegas, Nevada

Big Rig Jig

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

Permanently Closed

Flygbussarna. (Creative Review)

Arlandastad, Sweden

Flygbussarna

Sculpture of a bus made from wrecked passenger cars.

Permanently Closed

One More Go One More Go. (Creative Commons)

Sydney, Australia

One More Go One More Go

Outdoor art exhibition made of classic Tetris pieces.

Permanently Closed

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.

Riverside, California

Tio's Tacos

Mexican food and folk art.

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.

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.

Magic Garden

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia's Magic Gardens

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

(Press photo)

Davis Station, Antarctica

Antarctic Sculpture Garden

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