Statues

Celebrating the end of winter, students gather every year at Lake Superior State University to torch a 12-foot-tall snowman.

Canadian centennial project designed to gather information about UFOs.

Giant statue of a disembodied head.

Standing guard on top of an old, vacant ice cream shop.

Popular tourist destination now stands as a memorial to Sam the koala.

Holy Grotto of Montserrat Monastery holds one of Europe's mysterious black Madonnas.

Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

Roadside tribute to a staple of eastern European cuisine.

World's largest carved onyx figure stands as a tribute to enduring peace.

This "life-size" depiction of Mickey Mouse as a half-lobster is both whimsical and a bit creepy, standing guard over the Boston waterfront.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

The "feral child" who appeared in Bavaria in the 19th century remains as much a mystery as his unsolved murder.

A 9-story, poured concrete structure which was used as a glue factory with an indelible smell.

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.