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A bronze memorial to Tallinn’s most famous, and most elusive, stray dog, erected while he was still alive.

A station imagined at the speed of light, where familiar fixtures slip out of place.

This figure was carved in the likeness of a voyeur, so that every time he spied across the street, he would find only himself staring back.

Moved after its owner's death, this granite seat left the house with a haunting on its hands.

Long before the hollyhocks and colorful facades, this lane was notorious for witch trials, infanticide, and prostitution.

A folkloric creature relieving itself at the summer solstice

These crypt figures are said to be the giant and his family, turned to stone mid-rampage

A one-of-a-kind barrier keeps venomous snakes away from tourists

An original from the King of Pop's 1995 army of ten fiberglass giants, now looming in a Swedish industrial area

A split boulder left by the Ice Age and, according to legend, a hazard to your senses.

A chimeric bronze demon, embodying the chaotic spirit of a new millennium.

The very rock that killed the stonemason marks his grave.

A monumental magenta installation looms over a tangle of roads and tracks, as controversial as it is conspicuous.

A suburban monument preserves the faces of twenty murdered Jewish boys and girls.

A devilish mask still mocks a king’s rumored love nest across the street.

A mosaic tribute to a hitchhiking cat turned national celebrity.

A small stone boy mischievously turns his backside toward the city’s most famous water carrier.

Elevated brass pavilions form a kaleidoscope of fragmented views of the surrounding historic cityscape.

Carved scenes of sex work and unglamorous labour beneath a cultural hero.

Europe’s first football club cemetery, where lifelong supporters remain close to their team even after death.

A carved figure embodying the palace’s pint-sized but protective spirit rooted in local folklore.

A piece of Cold War history most people walk past unknowingly.

Multiple versions of this horned sculpture, tied to local legend, have been stolen over the years.

A bold sculpture highlighting the stark inequality between Western affluence and developing world hardship.