Strange(?) statues around the world!

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<p><em></em><em></em><br/><img title="1 - oslo, norway.jpg" alt="1 - oslo, norway.jpg" src="http://aycu31.webshots.com/image/2830/1012642544439138876_rs.jpg"/>&nbsp; </p><p><p><em></em></p><img src="http://aycu21.webshots.com/image/1780/1125952739042711517_rs.jpg" alt=""/>&nbsp; </p><p>Frogner Park, Oslo, Norway (thanks Stenar, jac). Sculpture by Gustav Vigeland.</p><p><em>A man who hates small children can’t be all bad!</em></p><p><img title="1 - sweden.jpg" alt="1 - sweden.jpg" src="http://aycu24.webshots.com/image/1583/1894092615033872091_rs.jpg"/>&nbsp; </p><p>Stockholm, Salzburg; Sweden&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><em>Home milk delivery in outer space!</em></p><p><em><img title="2 - sweden.jpg" alt="2 - sweden.jpg" src="http://aycu32.webshots.com/image/3471/1710586573921247761_rs.jpg"/>&nbsp; </em></p><p><em>What the Arab states wish Israel was armed with!</em></p><p><img src="http://aycu31.webshots.com/image/3030/1932719303109938841_rs.jpg" alt=""/>&nbsp; </p><p><em>So! You think I’m a fool?</em></p><p><img title="3 -sweden.jpg" alt="3 -sweden.jpg" src="http://aycu19.webshots.com/image/1298/1466880056349375590_rs.jpg"/>&nbsp; </p><p><em>This arch business is silly!</em></p><p><img src="http://aycu06.webshots.com/image/205/1947836910096594617_rs.jpg" alt=""/>&nbsp; </p><p><img src="http://aycu31.webshots.com/image/2590/1324231466030241147_rs.jpg" alt=""/>&nbsp; </p><p><em>Skull drudgery!</em></p><ol><li><img title=" 2 -czech" alt=" 2 -czech" src="http://aycu07.webshots.com/image/2046/1651752512649558057_rs.jpg"/>
                </li><li>Statue of german writer Kafka, Prague, Czech (thanks Jon Elbert)<img src="http://aycu05.webshots.com/image/3364/1280512260723120917_rs.jpg" alt=""/>
                </li><li>Brussels, Belgium (thanks jamyleloup)<br/><img title="belgium 1" alt="belgium 1" src="http://aycu17.webshots.com/image/1176/1185426401109236140_rs.jpg" align="top"/><img src="http://aycu25.webshots.com/image/1944/1750622659866437526_rs.jpg" alt=""/>
                </li><li>The man who measures the clouds by Jan Fabre, Belgium (thanks David Felizarda)<br/><img src="http://aycu25.webshots.com/image/1944/1045477077827797086_rs.jpg" alt=""/>
                </li><li>By Damien Hirst. 5th Ave., Manhattan, US (thanks Chris Coleman, nelis)<br/><img title="90.jpg" alt="90.jpg" src="http://aycu35.webshots.com/image/1354/1318297131960199601_rs.jpg"/>
                </li><li>Salt Lake City, Utah, US (thanks Stenar)<br/><img title="39.jpg" alt="39.jpg" src="http://aycu40.webshots.com/image/2639/1667131549277871835_rs.jpg"/>
                </li><li>Fremont Troll of Seattle, WA, US (thanks vanjulio)<br/><img title="126.jpg" alt="126.jpg" src="http://aycu30.webshots.com/image/3109/1734346206184885224_rs.jpg"/>
                </li><li>Turin, Italy (thanks texilee)<br/><img title="81.jpg" alt="81.jpg" src="http://aycu11.webshots.com/image/570/1133103784076815403_rs.jpg"/>
                </li><li>Bratislava, Slovakia (thanks Daniele)<br/><img title="3.jpg" alt="3.jpg" src="http://aycu25.webshots.com/image/304/1233147709928794226_rs.jpg"/>
                        <img title="12.jpg" alt="12.jpg" src="http://aycu05.webshots.com/image/3924/1927760389260197282_rs.jpg"/>
                </li><li>“The Illuminated Crowd”, in front of the Banque Nationale de Paris tower, Montreal, Canada (thanks SNF)<br/><img title="26.jpg" alt="26.jpg" src="http://aycu15.webshots.com/image/454/1278590052296926843_rs.jpg"/>
                </li><li>Melbourne, Australia (thanks catenoid)<br/><img title="13.jpg" alt="13.jpg" src="http://aycu36.webshots.com/image/4155/1758968029185162574_rs.jpg"/><img title="73.jpg" alt="73.jpg" src="http://aycu06.webshots.com/image/1205/1952039608984555126_rs.jpg"/>
                        <img title="77.jpg" alt="77.jpg" src="http://aycu06.webshots.com/image/1205/1569161050535037361_rs.jpg"/>
                </li><li>Minsk, Belarus (thanks Aleh)<br/><img title="24.jpg" alt="24.jpg" src="http://aycu22.webshots.com/image/2301/1061861055581827836_rs.jpg"/>
                        <img title="66.jpg" alt="66.jpg" src="http://aycu28.webshots.com/image/1267/1997905237150449811_rs.jpg"/>
                </li><li>In front of the Ernst &amp; Young building, Los Angeles, US (thanks Pam)<br/><img title="43.jpg" alt="43.jpg" src="http://aycu36.webshots.com/image/35/1333995989265231912_rs.jpg"/>
                </li><li>Toronto, Canada (thanks Kristan)<br/><img title="129.jpg" alt="129.jpg" src="http://aycu18.webshots.com/image/697/1747128220943307025_rs.jpg"/>
                </li><li>Mazinger Z, Spain (thanks mpc, Ten, Mat)<br/><img src="http://aycu06.webshots.com/image/1765/1301291826534656318_rs.jpg" alt=""/>
                </li><li>Atocha RailStation, Madrid, Spain (thanks guimi)<br/><img title="55.jpg" alt="55.jpg" src="http://aycu33.webshots.com/image/4192/1854141672328261476_rs.jpg" align="top"/>
                </li><li>Optimus Prime, China (thanks Juan Incognito)<img src="http://aycu12.webshots.com/image/11/1514271086508156793_rs.jpg" alt=""/>
                </li><li>Malmo, Sweden (thanks kip, dragonsden)<br/><img title="9.jpg" alt="9.jpg" src="http://aycu35.webshots.com/image/154/1167705570179904384_rs.jpg"/>
                </li><li>UOB Plaza, Singapore. Address: 80 Raffles Place. (thanks Juhu)<br/><img title="85.jpg" alt="85.jpg" src="http://aycu10.webshots.com/image/249/1254844222086122707_rs.jpg"/>
                </li><li><a href="http://www.insecula.com/us/oeuvre/O0019041.html" target="_blank"><font color="#7d0100">La Pouce</font></a>, Paris, France (thanks Jeff, Marc Lacoste)<br/><img title="137.jpg" alt="137.jpg" src="http://aycu34.webshots.com/image/3633/1946363307788520825_rs.jpg"/>
                </li><li>Depiction of a bread line, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, DC, USA (thanks JohnK3)<br/><img title="34.jpg" alt="34.jpg" src="http://aycu15.webshots.com/image/2974/1896452369194904709_rs.jpg"/>
                </li><li>Berlin, Germany (Lou)<br/><img title="64.jpg" alt="64.jpg" src="http://aycu20.webshots.com/image/379/1037448788925545039_rs.jpg"/>
                </li><li>Russia (thanks littlebat)<br/><img title="107.jpg" alt="107.jpg" src="http://aycu07.webshots.com/image/2806/1347730858533398258_rs.jpg"/>
                        <img title="134.jpg" alt="134.jpg" src="http://aycu03.webshots.com/image/1522/1742521419402380303_rs.jpg"/><img title="119.jpg" alt="119.jpg" src="http://aycu18.webshots.com/image/1737/1094699968204354856_rs.jpg"/>
                </li><li>Cheltenham, UK (thanks Tim)<br/><img title="72.jpg" alt="72.jpg" src="http://aycu33.webshots.com/image/792/1836170473847589052_rs.jpg"/>
                </li><li>Millesgеrden, Stockholm, Sweden. By Carl Milles (thanks Twee)<br/><img title="65.jpg" alt="65.jpg" src="http://aycu31.webshots.com/image/1510/1601320059278969540_rs.jpg"/>
                </li><li>Yerevan, Armenia (thanks Hayk)<br/><img title="98.jpg" alt="98.jpg" src="http://aycu13.webshots.com/image/2852/1269630195009013595_rs.jpg"/>
                        <img title="111.jpg" alt="111.jpg" src="http://aycu16.webshots.com/image/2935/1737887363008319174_rs.jpg"/><img title="118.jpg" alt="118.jpg" src="http://aycu17.webshots.com/image/936/1116790919116184685_rs.jpg"/>
                </li><li>Oxford, UK (thanks CdrJameson)<br/><img src="http://aycu33.webshots.com/image/1272/1941125176806585007_rs.jpg" alt=""/>
                </li><li>“Tête au carré” building by Sosno, Nice, France (thanks gimix)<br/><img title="41.jpg" alt="41.jpg" src="http://aycu08.webshots.com/image/2807/1396952861141575279_rs.jpg"/>
                </li><li>Singapore (thanks Misayo)<br/><img title="42.jpg" alt="42.jpg" src="http://aycu28.webshots.com/image/1987/1194942817012799726_rs.jpg"/>
                </li><li>Amsterdam, Holland (thanks Korilian)<br/><img src="http://aycu27.webshots.com/image/2066/1578494889364752938_rs.jpg" alt=""/>
                </li><li>Asus headquarter, Taiwan (thanks Phil). It is made from computer chips<br/><img title="48.jpg" alt="48.jpg" src="http://aycu21.webshots.com/image/3580/1214217468598205995_rs.jpg"/>
                </li><li>Kiev, Ukraine (thanks Eugene). It commemorates a local comedy actor truly beloved by public - he liked to sit at that very place with his old dog.<br/><img title="96.jpg" alt="96.jpg" src="http://aycu19.webshots.com/image/2058/1334963757839659753_rs.jpg"/>
                </li><li>Nuremberg, Germany (thanks Nick, Armin)<br/><img title="37.jpg" alt="37.jpg" src="http://aycu30.webshots.com/image/3309/1939867933323963431_rs.jpg" align="top"/>
                </li><li>Bremen, Germany (thanks morlach01)<br/><img title="40.jpg" alt="40.jpg" src="http://aycu28.webshots.com/image/4147/1536418343411824319_rs.jpg" align="top"/>
                </li><li>Trafalgar Square, London (thanks sam_m, MJ, Simon C). A sculpture of Alison Lapper by Marc Quinn<br/><img title="83.jpg" alt="83.jpg" src="http://aycu17.webshots.com/image/2896/1199488205876900080_rs.jpg" align="top"/>
                </li><li>Kharkov, Ukraine (thanks PHWizard)<br/><img title="74.jpg" alt="74.jpg" src="http://aycu29.webshots.com/image/1748/1789379365664459369_rs.jpg" align="top"/>
                </li><li>Monaco (thanks NK)<br/><img title="125.jpg" alt="125.jpg" src="http://aycu07.webshots.com/image/1486/1581635075809178380_rs.jpg" align="top"/>
                </li><li>Cologne, Germany (thanks Alexandre)<br/><img src="http://aycu29.webshots.com/image/2228/1717709737577063842_rs.jpg" alt=""/>
                </li><li>In front of The Institute for Microbiology, Tuebingen University, Germany<br/><img src="http://aycu13.webshots.com/image/2772/1210476561231066885_rs.jpg" alt=""/>
                </li><li>Statue of a tourist, Shanghai, China (thanks Jakob)<br/><img src="http://aycu35.webshots.com/image/2194/1703015795081415008_rs.jpg" alt=""/>
                </li><li>near San Giovanni train station, Como, Italy (thanks Dario)<br/><img title="80.jpg" alt="80.jpg" src="http://aycu19.webshots.com/image/2618/1365208716759241761_rs.jpg" align="top"/>
                </li><li>Wateringen, Holland (thanks FBS, Roadie)<br/><img title="116.jpg" alt="116.jpg" src="http://aycu01.webshots.com/image/1200/1905310653358835447_rs.jpg" align="top"/>
                </li><li>otsdam, Germany (thanks Ola)<br/><img title="106.jpg" alt="106.jpg" src="http://aycu28.webshots.com/image/1907/1394363330074873637_rs.jpg" align="top"/>
                </li><li>Santa Fe, New Mexico (thanks Gatrh, Paul)<br/><img title="103.jpg" alt="103.jpg" src="http://aycu33.webshots.com/image/1872/1076839571100584133_rs.jpg" align="top"/><img src="http://aycu07.webshots.com/image/1486/1714388560702808214_rs.jpg" alt=""/>
                </li><li>Springfield, Missouri, US (thanks Noella)<br/><img title="35.jpg" alt="35.jpg" src="http://aycu08.webshots.com/image/3927/1175370900756970560_rs.jpg" align="top"/>
                </li></ol><p><strong>Around the world</strong></p><ol><li><img title="113.jpg" alt="113.jpg" src="http://aycu24.webshots.com/image/2503/1461442999909418809_rs.jpg" align="top"/>
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<p>各国依次补完！！</p><p><img class="floatleftborder" height="224" alt="Bridge Troll." src="http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/wa/WASEAtrolldk.jpg" width="340"/>&nbsp; </p><p>The Fremont Troll<!--Element not supported - Type: 8 Name: #comment--></p><p></p><p><span class="townstate"><!--Element not supported - Type: 8 Name: #comment-->Seattle, <a href="http://www.roadsideamerica.com/map/wa.html" target="_top">Washington</a><!--Element not supported - Type: 8 Name: #comment--></span>
        </p><p><!--Element not supported - Type: 8 Name: #comment--></p><p>The Fremont troll has been lurking under the north end of the Aurora bridge since 1990. He was sculpted by four Seattle area artists -- Steve Badanes, Will Martin, Donna Walter and Ross Whitehead -- for the Fremont Arts Council. The head-and-shoulders sculpture is 18-ft. tall.</p><p><img class="floatrightborder" height="248" alt="Troll [photo by Matt Balzarini]" src="http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/wa/WASEAtroll2_balz.jpg" width="198"/>&nbsp; </p><p>The shaggy haired troll glares southward with his shiny metal eye -- a hubcap? In his left hand, he crushes an old style Volkswagen beetle (which originally contained a time capsule of Elvis memorabilia; removed after the car was vandalized and the California license plate was stolen). There are plenty of places to pose, and interaction with the troll is encouraged.</p><p>The community pays tribute to the troll every October 31st with a mobile "Trollaween" party, starting under the bridge and wandering to other funky art sites and events in Fremont. Of which there are plenty: Fremont is also home to the <strong>Largest Lenin statue in the US</strong>.</p><p>The troll achieved more notoriety in 1998 when the a man shot a bus driver and ran the bus off the Aurora bridge, crashing on top of an apartment building. The building is adjacent to the troll, and is reported to get as much attention -- for a while you could still see evidence of the impact.</p><p></p><div class="attractfacts">(<strong> The Fremont Troll:</strong> N 36th St, Seattle, WA [<a class="maplink" href="http://www.roadsideamerica.com/geo/showMap.php?attractionNo=1402">Show Map</a>] <strong>Directions:</strong> Under the Aurora Ave. Bridge -- sometimes called the George Washington Bridge -- at N. 36th Street. Despite the troll\'s name, it is not under the nearby Fremont bridge. <strong>Hours:</strong> Daylight hours. )</div><p><br clear="all"/><!--Element not supported - Type: 8 Name: #comment--></p>

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<table width="650"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p class="header">Darth Vader on Washington National Cathedral</p><hr/></td></tr><tr><td><p><b>* Please Note: We regret that views of Darth Vader will not be available for the duration of the new Cathedral parking garage <a href="http://www.cathedral.org/cathedral/visit/pkggarage/index.shtml">construction project</a></b> due to lack of access to the North side of the Cathedral including all of North Road and the northwest parking lot.</p><p>As Washington National Cathedral approached completion, the west towers rose towards the sky, striking toward heaven. During the building a startling idea was hatched: hold a competition for children to design decorative sculpture for the Cathedral. <br/><br/><img alt="Darth Vader Drawing" hspace="5" src="http://www.cathedral.org/cathedral/discover/images/darth2.jpg" vspace="5"/><br/>Word of the competition was spread nationwide through National Geographic World Magazine. The third-place winner was Christopher Rader, with his drawing of that fearful villain, Darth Vader. The fierce head was sculpted by Jay Hall Carpenter, carved by Patrick J. Plunkett and placed high upon the northwest tower of the Cathedral.</p><p align="center"><img alt="Newspaper Clipping" src="http://www.cathedral.org/cathedral/discover/images/kid.gif" align="bottom"/></p></td><td><p><img class="border" alt="Darth Vader Location" hspace="5" src="http://www.cathedral.org/cathedral/discover/images/tower1.jpg" vspace="5"/></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b>To Find Darth Vader</b> you have to leave the building through the ramp entrance. This is located at the northwest corner of the nave, through the double wooden doors of Lincoln Bay. Go down the ramp, and step into the parking lot. Then, turn around and look back up at the tower closest to you. He is almost impossible to see without the assistance of binoculars. <b>(We regret access is not possible for the duration of <a href="http://www.cathedral.org/cathedral/visit/pkggarage/index.shtml">construction</a> – see above*)</b></p><p>Way way way up, almost at the top of the tower is a gablet, or small peaked roof, located between the two huge louvered arches. At the bottom of each slope of this gablet is a carved grotesque. Darth Vader is on the north, or right-hand, side. There is a carved skull situated on a gablet much closer to the ground which many people often mistake for Darth Vader. From this skull, Darth Vader is up and to the left. For more info see <a href="http://www.cathedral.org/cathedral/visit/self.shtml">Darth Vader Self-Guided Tour.</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table>

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<p>这些是冰岛的！</p><p><img class="reflect" height="500" alt="" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/37/74088817_0bdfd4faec.jpg?v=1134734308" width="375"/>&nbsp; </p><p><img class="reflect" height="375" alt="" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/41/74084915_049336fbca.jpg?v=0" width="500"/>&nbsp; </p><p></p><p></p>

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<p>The Shaking Man outside the Metreon in San Francisco！</p><p><img alt="Shaking Man sculpture (1993) by Terry Allen in cartoon-like triplicate vibrations of person in earthquake zone at Yerba Buena Gardens. San Francisco, CA" src="http://www.travelphotobase.com/i/USCAF/CAF564.JPG" border="2"/>&nbsp; </p><p><img alt="Shaking Man sculpture detail in Yerba Buena Gardens. San Francisco, CA" src="http://www.travelphotobase.com/i/USCAF/CAF563.JPG" border="2"/>&nbsp; </p><p></p><p></p>

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<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="230"><p><font face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif, univers, Univers 45 Light, Univers 55" size="2"><font size="3">Then there’s the Dore Vase in San Francisco</font></font></p><p><font face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif, univers, Univers 45 Light, Univers 55" size="2">This bizarre three-ton bronze vase, decorated with a baroque tangle of vines and oenopoetic figures, celebrates winemaking. Titled <i>oème de la Vigne,</i> it is said to be an original cast by the illustrator and artist Gustave Doré (<a href="http://www.rightreading.com/daybook_pages/january.htm#6">Jan. 6,</a> 1832 - <a href="http://www.rightreading.com/daybook_pages/january-3.htm#23">Jan. 23</a>, 1883). </font></p><p><font face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif, univers, Univers 45 Light, Univers 55" size="2">At the 1893 World\'s Columbian Exposition in Chicago (where you had to pay special admission to see it) the mammoth bronze caught the attention of Michael de Young, who had grand aspirations of his own. De Young exhibited the piece at his San Francisco\'s Midwinter Fair of 1894, and this exuberant work must have resonated with the fair\'s theme, "California: Cornucopia of the World."</font></p><p><font face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif, univers, Univers 45 Light, Univers 55" size="2">The fair marked the first development of John McLaren\'s sylvan park, which raised the value of de Young\'s properties in the city\'s Sunset and Richmond districts even as it distressed the great Scotsman.</font></p><p><font face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif, univers, Univers 45 Light, Univers 55" size="2">After the fair de Young purchased the work for the Memorial Museum (now the de Young Museum) that was a legacy of the exposition, and the vase was a highlight of the museum\'s collection in its early years. In 1906 the San Francisco earthquake tipped over the vase but apparently caused little damage.</font></p><p><font face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif, univers, Univers 45 Light, Univers 55" size="2">According to an article in an 1893 issue of <i>World\'s Fair</i>, "The total visual effect of \'Poem of the Vine\' is one of lush, rich enjoyment ... like a bottle of wine itself, to be tasted in sips, yet enjoyed as a complete experience."</font></p><p><font face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif, univers, Univers 45 Light, Univers 55" size="2">Today the Dore vase may appear more an oddity than a masterpiece. Somewhat surprisingly given its size, it has been moved around the park several times over the years and was on Teagarden Drive outside the de Young Museum when these photos were taken in 2001. </font></p><p>&nbsp;</p></td><td valign="top" width="20">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top" width="250"><p><img src="http://www.rightreading.com/ggp/dore.vase/enitre.vase.Pc030013.jpg" alt=""/>&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img height="188" src="http://www.rightreading.com/ggp/dore.vase/vase.midsection.PC030011.jpg" width="250" alt=""/>&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img height="238" src="http://www.rightreading.com/ggp/dore.vase/vase.base.PC030017.jpg" width="250" alt=""/>&nbsp; </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><img height="375" src="http://www.rightreading.com/ggp/dore.vase/vase.crest.PC030018.jpg" width="500" align="top" alt=""/>&nbsp; </p>

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<p>It is known as ‘El Culo’ (in English ‘the ass’) and it can be found in Oviedo, in Spain. </p><p><img src="http://www.spaansetapas.be/fotos/elculo.jpg" alt=""/></p>

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<p>There are sculptures from South Korea (Suwon WorldCup Stadium)<br/></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p>

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<p>It’s ‘Kabouter Buttplug’ (’the buttplug gnome’) which can be found in Rotterdam, the Netherlands </p><p><img src="http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/7246/450pxkabouterbuttplug5ry.jpg" alt=""/>&nbsp; </p>

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