This enormous fish commemorates the unplanned release of brown trout into a Michigan river.

This giant fiberglass cod celebrates Madison's self-proclaimed status as the U.S. capital of lutefisk.

“Wagon Jobber" turned smokehouse magnate's family-owned business is still going strong 100 years later.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

This quirky local sculpture is quite literally a fish out of water.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

This remote stretch of sand is a penguin lover's paradise.

These old World War II fortifications have been transformed into an unusual equine attraction.

In Portugal, a secluded stretch of untouched natural beauty hides at the bottom of a steep hill.

Much of what constituted mid-century Liverpool now litters a beach outside of town.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawai'i.

A mostly desolate bar on a remote island hosts hundreds of sailors for a few days each year.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

The gargoyles and grotesques of the 21st century are here—22 emoji built into a new building in the Netherlands.

A stone copper was sculpted on the wall of the Carlisle Cathedral to honor a local hero.

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

An homage to the man who built California's version of Venice.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.