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Monuments

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Davis Station, Antarctica

Antarctic Sculpture Garden

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

Davis, California

Eggheads

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

Guangzhou, China

Whitewater Village Scenic Area

Man-made waterfall is the tallest in Mainland China.

The Calder Stones. (Geograph)

Liverpool, England

The Calderstones

Six neolithic sandstone boulders remaining from a dolmen.

La Crosse, Wisconsin

World's Largest Six-Pack

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

Huntsville, Texas

Sam Houston Statue

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

Matfield Green, Kansas

Knute Rockne Memorial

Tribute to the famous Notre Dame football coach who died in a plane crash.

North Korean mural of former Syrian President Hafez al-Asad. (LeahC/Atlas Obscura)

Damascus, Syria

October War Panorama

3D war panorama in Damascus built with help from North Korea.

Permanently Closed

The M65 Atomic Cannon, affectionately called "Atomic Annie" by the grunts back in the day, stands guard against the Flint Hills prairie chickens and hawks. (3 o'Clock AM)

Junction City, Kansas

Atomic Annie

Cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

Monument Arthur Rimbaud

Marseille, France

Monument Arthur Rimbaud

"Drunken ship" sculpture memorializing the French poet in the city where he died.

Collyer Brothers Park, Harlem, New York City. (Wikimedia Commons)

New York, New York

Collyer Brothers Park

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

Allies by Lawrence Holofcener. (Wikimedia Commons)

London, England

Allies Sculpture

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Iguanodon. The horns on the nose are actually thumbs. (Wikimedia Commons)

London, England

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

Edgar Hernandez, better known as "Niño Cero" - Little Boy Zero

La Gloria, Mexico

Little Boy Zero

Statue of Edgar Hernandez, the first victim of swine flu.

Bayonne, New Jersey

Tear Drop Memorial

World Trade Center memorial likened to a woman's sexual organ.

You can stand on top of the horse's head.

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Genghis Khan Statue Complex

Enormous statue of the Emperor of the Mongols.

Larry the Lobster - and an idea of his scale (size & color)

Kingston SE, Australia

Larry The Red Big Lobster

A massive metal lobster welcomes tourists to a roadside restaurant.

Burlington, Vermont

Tallest Filing Cabinet on Earth

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.