Statues in Germany

This easily overlooked statue depicts an important woman in Mannheim's history.

Life-sized bronze statues of fictional puppet characters.

This demonic monument commemorates a carving destroyed in World War II.

A statue of an astronomer gazes at the sky as a tribute to Caroline Herschel.

This massive statue is the personification of Bavaria and the first colossal statue of the modern period composed of bronze.

This strange sculpture depicts a giant nightmare hare crushing a man to death beneath its colossal bulk.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

Art historians have debated the identity of this medieval stone rider since the 19th century.

Legend says this sculpture commemorates a brave baker who rescued the city in the Thirty Years' War.

Is this statue at Naumberg Cathedral the fairest of them all?

A statue dedicated to the antihero of the Nibelung legend.

A stonemason's hilarious revenge came in the form of this peculiarly positioned gargoyle.

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

Beloved children's TV characters freckle the German city's streets.

A beloved street vendor is memorialized outside a German train station.

A statue of Vladimir Illyich Lenin guards this abandoned building in the "Forbidden City."