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Israel Kamakawiwo'ole memorial bust
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.
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Israel "Iz" Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole (Hawaiian pronunciation: [kəˌmɐkəˌvivoˈʔole]) translation: "The Fearless Eyed"; May 20, 1959 – June 26, 1997), also called Bruddah Iz (Brother Iz), was a Hawaiian musician.
His voice became famous outside Hawaii when his album Facing Future was released in 1993. His medley of "Somewhere over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" was subsequently featured in several films, television programs, and television advertisement commercials.
Through his skillful ukulele playing and incorporation of other genres (such as jazz and reggae), Kamakawiwoʻole's music remains a very strong influence in Hawaiian music.

The ghost church of Luková
Dania (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Dania.
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The abandoned St George (Sv. Jiří) Church of Luková has become a tourist attraction because of the 32 ghost sculptures there has been installed in the church.

Google Maps Underwater - Cancun Underwater Museum
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By: Mike1989.
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Cancun Underwater Museum is a series of sculptures by Jason deCaires Taylor placed underwater off the coast of Isla de Mujeres and Cancún, Mexico. The project began in November 2009 with placement of a hundred statues in shallow waters of the Cancún National Marine Park, which had been previously damaged by storms.
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Statue of Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin
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By: milwhcky.
The northern Manitoba city of Flin Flon was named after Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin - a character in the novel The Sunless City by J.E. Preston Muddock.
This statue was designed by cartoonist Al Capp in 1962.

Serpent D'Océan
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By: tallturtle82.
The Serpent D'Océan was completed in 2012 by Chinese-French artist Huang Yong Ping. The 400 foot long serpent was apart of the Estuaire art exhibit that encouraged artists to use the environment surrounding the Loire River area from Nantes to Saint-Nazaire.

A Middle Finger
Rene73 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Rene73.

Partisan memorial in Piazzale Loreto
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By: giove.
The massacre took place in Piazzale Loreto, 10 August 1944 in Milan. Fifteen anti-Fascist partisans and were shot by soldiers of the legion Ettore Muti, under the orders of the Germans, and their bodies were displayed to the public.
When the war ended, the site of the massacre and in memory of the martyrs who fell there was erected a memorial stone. This stone was replaced by a monument erected in August 1960 by the sculptor Giannino Castiglioni (1884-1971), located on the corner of the square and viale Andrea Doria. The monument, on the front, bears a bas-relief representing a martyr subjected to execution on the iconography of St. Sebastian, on the back is labeled "HIGH / THE NIGHT OF BOTH FELL IN THE NAME / OF FREEDOM" which follows the list of 15 fallen, the date dell'eccidio, August 10, 1944 and the symbols of the Italian Republic and the City of Milan.

Statue of Unity - World's tallest statue
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By: tallturtle82.
The statue of Indian founding father, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel stands 600 feet tall and cost over $400 million.

Flame of Liberty
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By: dda.
The Flame of Liberty (Flamme de la Liberté) in Paris is a full size, gold leaf covered, replica of the flame carried in the hand of the Statue of Liberty in New York City. It was given to the city of Paris by the International Herald Tribune on behalf of donors as part of the newspaper's centennial celebrations in 1987. It is located near the northern end of the Pont de l'Alma on the Place de l'Alma in Paris.
For several years, the public fly-posted the base with commemorative material in honour of Diana, Princess of Wales, because the memorial is very close to the tunnel where she died. The material has since been removed by the French authorities. However, it is still regarded by many as an unofficial memorial to the late princess.

Mount Rushmore
Dania (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Dania.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial, near Keystone, South Dakota, is a monumental granite sculpture by Gutzon Borglum (1867–1941), located within the United States Presidential Memorial that represents the first 150 years of the history of the United States of America with 60-foot (18 m) sculptures of the heads of former United States presidents (left to right):
George Washington (1732–1799)
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) and
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865).
The entire memorial covers 1,278.45 acres (5.17 km2) and is 5,725 feet (1,745 m) above sea level. It is managed by the National Park Service, a bureau of the United States Department of the Interior. The memorial attracts approximately two million people annually.

Monumento al Marinaio
WacoKidd110 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: WacoKidd110.
The sculpture, which is about seven meters high and stands on a pedestal, depicts two sailors in the act of greeting the boats that are about to cross the waterway linking the Great Sea with the Baltic Small, lifting up the Typical cap with his right hand. The work seamlessly with the old railings of the course on which two seas are subject to a five-pointed star emblem of the Navy and the Savoy, and expresses the indissoluble link between the city and the many soldiers who still work there

The Statue of Liberty in Paris
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By: dda.
The Statue of Liberty in Paris is near the Grenelle Bridge on the Île des Cygnes, an island in the river Seine, 11.50 m (37 feet 9 inches) high. Dedicated on November 15, 1889, it looks towards the Atlantic Ocean and hence towards its "larger sister" in New York Harbor, which had been erected three years earlier. Its tablet bears two dates: "IV JUILLET 1776" (July 4, 1776: the United States Declaration of Independence) like the New York statue, and "XIV JUILLET 1789" (July 14, 1789: the storming of the Bastille). This statue is shown in the movie National Treasure: Book of Secrets as one of the historic locations.

Babi Yar massacre site
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By: daggerwell.
Babi Yar (Russian: Бабий Яр; Ukrainian: Бабин Яр, Babyn Yar) is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and a site of a series of massacres carried out by the Nazis during their campaign against the Soviet Union.
The most notorious and the best documented of these massacres took place on September 29–30, 1941, wherein 33,771 Jews were killed in a single operation. The decision to kill all the Jews in Kiev was made by the military governor, Major-General Kurt Eberhard, the Police Commander for Army Group South, SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln, and the Einsatzgruppe C Commander Otto Rasch. It was carried out by Sonderkommando 4a soldiers, along with the aid of the SD and SS Police Battalions. The massacre was the largest single mass killing for which the Nazi regime and its collaborators were responsible during its campaign against the Soviet Union and is considered to be "the largest single massacre in the history of the Holocaust".

Celine Dion Globe Monument
Dania (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Dania.
In 2000 was built, on June of that year, a monument in honor of Celine Dion. The monument is located in the entrance to the town of Charlemagne, Quebec. At the moment, it consists of a globe as the "world" with a big logo "Celine" on it.

'Needle, Thread, and Knot' by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
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By: kkeps.

Pat Tillman statue
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By: tallturtle82.
Patrick Daniel Tillman (11/6/1976 – 4/22/2004) was a football player with the Arizona Cardinals who left his lucrative career to join the United States Army. Tillman joined the Army Rangers in 2002, graduating in 2003 having served a tour in Iraq before his death in Afghanistan in 2004. Initially the Army reported Tillman had been killed by enemy fire, but weeks later it was discovered the Army knew he had been killed by friendly fire and failed to divulge the information.
There are many tributes to Tillman including this statue outside of the Cardinals' stadium.

Adiyogi Shiva Statue
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.
34 m (112 ft)

The Predator on a helicopter wreck
Predator was a 1987 released film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Carl Weathers about an elite military rescue team saving guerilla held hostages in a jungle. But instead of guerillas they run into a bloody alian predator hunting and killing members of the team one by one.
The film was shot in this forest.

'Olympic Tower' by Dale Chihuly
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By: pmoore66.
2002
In lobby of Abravanel Hall

Concrete Moai
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By: Parabellum.

Elmer Long's Bottle Tree Ranch
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By: mlc1us.
Elmer Long wasn't the first to create bottle trees along Route 66, but he has certainly kept the tradition alive with his forest of trees in his front yard affectionately coined the Bottle Tree Ranch.

Raja Ram Mohan Roy (Born 1772 - Died 1833)
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By: adrbr.
Raja Ram Mohan Roy (Bengali: রাজা রামমোহন রায়) (22 May 1772 – 27 September 1833) was an Indian religious, social, and educational reformer who challenged traditional Hindu culture and indicated the lines of progress for Indian society under British rule. He is sometimes called the father of modern India. He founded, along with Dwarkanath Tagore and other Bengalis, of the Brahmo Sabha in 1828, which engendered the Brahmo Samaj, an influential Indian socio-religious reform movement during the Bengal Renaissance. His influence was apparent in the fields of politics, public administration, and education, as well as religion. He is known for his efforts to abolish the practice of sati, the Hindu funeral practice in which the widow immolated herself on her husband's funeral pyre.

Car and parking lot on the side of a building
adrbr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: adrbr.
1980
'Het Otootje (The Car)' by Theo van Laar

'Rrrun' by Marta Thoma
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By: adrbr.

Murphy Ranch (Nazi enclave)
Parabellum (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Parabellum.
Ranch of 55 acres purchased in 1933 by a (fictious?) "Jessie M. Murphy, widow," with that name appearing on no other public records. By 1938 it was clear that the real owners were Winona and Norman Stephens, a wealthy American couple with a marked affinity for National Socialism and Hitler's New Order in Germany. Winona, who was seriously into "the para-normal," came under the spell of a mysterious Rasputin-like Nazi known in local lore only as "Schmidt." The Stephens spent more than 4,000,000 dollars to develope the estate into a sealed off utopian Nazi hide-a-way which would include a huge mansion designed by Lloyd Wright.

Puerta de Juárez
daggerwell (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: daggerwell.

Mariah Carey Wax Figure
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By: mlc1us.
At The Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf (Closed in 2013)
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Giant replica of the Stanley Cup
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By: milwhcky.
This 12.5 ft. tall, 850 pound replica of the NHL's championship trophy was the idea of a few local businesses - United Cycle and IMARK Metal Fabricators. Along with help from the city and the Edmonton Oilers, this project was completed in 2007.

Giant rubber duck
mlc1us (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mlc1us.
People gather to see a giant rubber duck by Dutch conceptual artist Florentijin Hofman at Glory Pier in Kaohsiung.

'Cupid's Span' by Claes Oldenburg
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By: kjfitz.

Bull sculpture at Red Bull Ring
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By: milwhcky.
A sculpture of a giant bull charging through an archway overlooks the Red Bull Ring racing circuit. After a ten year absence, the Formula One Austrian Grand Prix was revived at this course in 2014.

Statue of Josip Broz Tito
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By: hhgygy.

Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr - site of fatal duel
The duel between these two prominent Americans took place nearby and has been memorialized since 1806. Originally there was a 14 foot marker placed at the spot by the Saint Andrew Society. By 1820 none of the markers remained as they were vandalized. The two boulders where the duelers were thought to have stood were placed at the site between 180-1857. Hamilton's boulder was believed to have been used to rest on after he was shot. There are no accounts from the duel to verify the boulder stories. The current bust of Hamilton dates back to 1935 and replaced the 1894 addition which was thrown over a cliff by vandals.
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Sam Mills statue
Sam Mills was an original member of the Carolina Panthers NFL team. The 5'9" linebacker joined the team as a 36-year old free agent in 1995. He started every game for the team for three seasons.
Before joining the Panthers, he played nine seasons with the New Orleans Saints. After retiring in 1997, he remained with the Panthers as a linebackers coach. He passed away in 2005 after a 20-month battle with cancer.

Dotonbori Hotel
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By: kaiken.

Mothman Statue
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By: Fab.

'Curving Arcades' by Athena Tacha
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By: kjfitz.
This sculpture was created by Athena Tacha in the fall of 1981. It is situated at the east end of the UA Mall at 3rd Street and Campbell Avenue.
The 16-foot-high split sheets of steel are bolted to a submerged concrete base and are painted in graduated shades of blue on one side and red on the other.

Laurel and Hardy

Statue of Liberty
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in the middle of New York Harbor, in Manhattan, New York City. The statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France. The statue is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States: a welcoming signal to immigrants arriving from abroad.

'Convertibles' by Brian Goggin and Michael Eckerman

Hammering Man
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By: kkeps.
Hammering Man was designed by Jonathan Borofsky and installed on September 12, 1992. The sculpture was actually fabricated in North Haven, CT and was then installed where it stands. There are multiple hammering men sculptures all over the world. Each has an unique number to identify it. This hammering man's number is 3277164 and it is found on the rear of his back leg. His hammer moves approximately four times per minute and is on a timer so that he doesn't have to hammer at night or on labor day. The hammering man is 48 feet tall, 30 inches wide, and 7 inches deep and weighs over 20,000 pounds. He is hollow and made of steel and covered with black automotive paint. His motor is a 3 hp electric motor. Hammering man made the news on Labor Day of 1993 when activists fitted him with a ball and chain. The ball and chain were scaled to his size, with the ball being 19 feet in circumference. The Seattle engineering department set him free two days later on September 8th. The ball and chain was later auctioned to benefit Job Corps. The ball and chain wouldn't fit through the door of where the auction was being held and was rammed with a truck to make it fit. Even no longer in its original condition, the item raised $1,300 for Job Corps.

Lawrence Peter"Pete" Hollis statue
WacoKidd110 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: WacoKidd110.
The son of a Chester County cotton farmer, Hollis moved to Greenville in 1905 after graduating from the University of South Carolina, where he had served as president of the campus YMCA.
During a lifetime devoted to community service, he directed the Greenville YMCA (starting at age 21), and he helped found the Parker School District, which he served as superintendent from 1923 to 1951. He organized the first Boy Scout troop in South Carolina, and he introduced the sport of basketball to the state. Hollis was also a driving force in helping to establish the Greenville County Library, the Phillis Wheatley Center and the YWCA.
Hollis' tireless energy helped transform the lives of thousands of working-class citizens living in the Northwest Crescent, a cluster of textile mill villages forming an arc stretching from West Greenville to Berea. Warm and engaging, Pete Hollis was a common man with uncommon virtues: a caring heart, an infectious energy and a bold vision for enriching life in the mill villages

'North, East, South, West' by Michael Heizer
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By: pmoore66.

The Sphinx in Street View
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By: kenerk.
On 9/9/2014, some Egypt landmarks including the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx have been added to Google Street View.

Elizabeth Page “Molly” Stark statue
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By: WacoKidd110.
Molly Stark, née Elizabeth Page, (February 16, 1737–1814) was the wife of American Revolutionary War general John Stark.
She was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, moved with her family to Dunbarton, New Hampshire, around 1755, and was the daughter of the first postmaster of New Hampshire, Caleb Page, and his wife Ruth. She married General Stark on August 20, 1758. Together they had 11 children, including their eldest son Caleb Stark. The Molly Stark house still stands in Dunbarton at Page's Corner.

'Falling Words'
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By: pmoore66.

The Bench of Vice
Statue by Lea Vivot

Shark sticking out of the roof
The Headington Shark is a sculpture depicting a shark embedded head-first in the roof of the house.

Christ of the Abyss
Three "Christ of the Abyss" statues are located under the surface of the sea, this is the third. The first two are located near the Italian Riviera and Grenada respectively. This one was cast from the same mold as the original. It was presented to the Underwater Society of America in New York in 1962, and placed here in about 25 feet of water in 1965.
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Statue of Hachiko, the Faithful Dog
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By: hhgygy.

'Bow' by Bill Donnan

Legs

Dallas Zoo Giraffe Statue
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By: TexasAndroid.
At 67.5 ft tall, this is supposedly the tallest statue in Texas.

Chicago Blackhawks 75th Anniversary Sculpture
"Badge of Honor" by Erik Blome. Unveiled on October 12, 2000, it sits across the street from the United Center where the Chicago Stadium once stood. It features six players from different eras. The name of every Blackhawks player in team history is engraved on the wall behind the players.
A plaque behind the sculpture reads:
This symbolic sculpture commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Chicago Blackhawk hockey team. The bronze players depict the men who donned the Indian Head sweater and the history and tradition of Blackhawk hockey. Each player represents the pride, the passion, and the emotion of the different eras throughout the storied past of this Original Six team. The names engraved on the monument are of the players who have competed wearing the Indian Head crest as their Badge of Honor.

James Garner as Maverick statue
James Garner was born April 7, 1928 in Norman.

Vernal - Utah's Dinosaur Land

'Wave' by Lin Emery
1988

Horse Soldier Statue - America's Response Monument
The bronze statue was sculpted by Douwe Blumberg in 2011. The statue commemorates the U.S. Special Forces who entered Afghanistan to fight the Taliban soon after 9/11. The 12 men sent were given horses by the locals as transportation in the difficult mountain terrain. They fought tanks, and infantry while on horseback, marking the first U.S. fight on horseback since 1942.
The attached picture is the photo that inspired sculptor Blumberg.
The unit's actions also inspired the 2018 movie, "12 Strong".

'Southern Cross' by Alexander Calder
at Calder's home and studio

Giant turkey
In front of 4 State Poultry Supply. A giant rooster is also on display.

Michael Jackson statue

'Unconditional Surrender' by J. Seward Johnson

'Hugh Mongous' the Giant Gorilla
Parabellum (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Parabellum.

Douglas MacArthur at West Point
Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 – April 5, 1964) was an American five-star general in the US Army. MacArthur was raised in a military family, his father being Lt. General Arthur MacArthur, Jr. Douglas graduated West Point in 1903 top of the class, scoring 2424.12 merits out of a possible 2470.00 or 98.14.
Douglas was nominated for the Medal of Honor in 1917 for a reconnaissance mission in Veracruz, Mexico. He later won the Medal of Honor for his exploits in the Philippines in WWII. MacArthur rose to general in World War I and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross twice and the Silver Star seven times. From 1919-1922 Douglas served as Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

'Brushstroke Group' by Roy Lichtenstein
at the U Mass "Arts on the Point"

'Martin Luther King Jr Memorial' by William Tarr

Freddie Mercury statue
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By: bubaonline.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mercury

Anthony Quinn statue
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By: daggerwell.
Antonio Rodolfo Quinn-Oaxaca (April 21, 1915 - June 3, 2001), more commonly known as Anthony Quinn, was a Chihuahua-born American actor, as well as a painter and writer. He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia, The Guns of Navarone, The Message, Guns for San Sebastian, Lion of the Desert and Federico Fellini's La Strada. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice; for Viva Zapata! in 1952 and Lust for Life in 1956.

'Ganz Grosse Geister (Big Spirits XL)' by Thomas Schutte
Ganz Grosse Geister (Big Spirits XL), 2004
Enamel on cast aluminum
Three figures, each: 16 ft. high (4.9 m)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Edlis/Neeson Art Acquisition Fund.
2005.1
With these giant effigies of amorphous beings that recall the rotund icon of travel guides, the Michelin man, Schütte challenges statuary traditions, giving mass and presence to vaporous beings. The three chimeric figures reflect a world of imagination, filled with aliens, ghosts, and goblins.

John Körmeling: The Rotating House
A detached house with a front and back garden is located on the Hasselt roundabout. The house, which looks real, is rotating on the roundabout in the direction of the traffic and completes one full circle in 20 hours. The house is a full-scale model (5 meters wide, 8.5 meters deep and 10 meters high). It is not fit for human habitation; it consists of a steel construction covered with red brick strips and tiles.
The windows are made of laminated glass with white window frames. The front and back gardens are made up of artificial turf. At night the house is illuminated from the inside. The house is closed but, with a key, you can enter the house through the front door for potential maintenance. Grass grows on the roundabout itself. The distance between the garden and the road amounts to a meter. The house has 4 track wheels placed on rails. The mechanism is driven by four wheels with 24 Volt deriving from a solar panel. Another mechanism ensures that the house automatically stops as soon as something bumps into it.

Sir Winston Churchill statue by William McVey
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill(30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice (1940–45 and 1951–55). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States.

Lincoln Park Fountain

"The Doors" by Donald Lipski

2003 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Oscar Niemeyer
‘Imagine Garbo or Sinatra in their prime, and performing now. With this week’s opening of the 2003 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, just such a time-warping miracle is taking place.’ Evening Standard
The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2003 was both simple and ingenious. Built in steel, aluminium, concrete and glass, its ruby-red ramp contrasted with the surprise of a partly submerged auditorium, affording views across the park. It also housed specially conceived wall drawings by Niemeyer. The Pavilion conformed to Niemeyer’s principle that every project must be capable of summary in a simple ‘sketch’ and that once the support structure is finished the architecture should be more or less complete.

Major Richard Winters - Easy Company 101st Airborne
Richard "Dick" Winters (1/21/1918-1/2/2011) was a decorated U.S. Army officer in the 101st Airborne Division. Winters and company parachuted into Normandy on D-Day, fighting across France, the Nehterlands, Belgium and Germany. Winters features in numerous books and is played by Damian Lewis in HBO's "Band of Brothers".

Dinosaur

Wall Street Bull (SV)
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By: tuttleberry.
Streetview of Wall Street Charging Bull

Crazy Horse Memorial
The Crazy Horse Memorial is a mountain monument under construction in the Black Hills of South Dakota, in the form of Crazy Horse, an Oglala Lakota warrior, riding a horse and pointing into the distance.
The memorial consists of the mountain carving (monument), the Indian Museum of North America, and the Native American Cultural Center. The monument is being carved out of Thunderhead Mountain on land considered sacred by some Native Americans, between Custer and Hill City, roughly 8 miles (13 km) away from Mount Rushmore.
The sculpture's final dimensions are planned to be 641 feet (195 m) wide and 563 feet (172 m) high. The head of Crazy Horse will be 87 feet (27 m) high; by comparison, the heads of the four U.S. Presidents at Mount Rushmore are each 60 feet (18 m) high.
The monument has been in progress since 1948 and is still far from completion. If finished, it will be the world's largest statue.

'Roland' by George Sugarman
relocated to Fairlawn-Bath branch in 2004

Gargoyle at Puente del Reino (Bridge of Old Kingdom)
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By: bubaonline.
These statues, called gargoyle are in the four corners of the 'bridge of Kingdom (of Valencia)'.
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State Hermitage Museum
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By: kuressaare.
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/

Montreal Canadiens statues
There are currently four Montreal Canadiens statues in Place du Centenaire. The four are: Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Howie Morenz, Jean Beliveau and Guy LaFleur. The plaza celebrates the 100 plus years of Canadien hockey.

Cristiano Ronaldo statue
Ronaldo is considered one of the best football/soccer players of all time. The native of Funchal has won five Champions League titles with three clubs and five FIFA Ballon d'Or/Ballon d'Or trophies as the best individual player in that year.
The statue stands outside the CR7 museum, the museum dedicated to him and partly started by him.
The bronze statue was created by Brazilian sculptor Ricardo Velosa.

'El Sol Rojo' by Alexander Calder
at Aztec Stadium

Legend of the Selkie
The statue represents the seals who once a year on Twelfth Night are allowed to come on land, strip from their skins and enjoy themselves dancing as human beings.

Roald 'Kniksen' Jensen Statue
Roald Jensen nicknamed "Kniksen", (13 January 1943 – 6 October 1987) from Bergen was one of Norway's most celebrated football players. He played for Brann and Hearts. The nickname "Knicksen" is a local Bergen word meaning something like "The Trickster".
Jensen was born in Bergen and was from an early stage interested in football. He made his Brann senior team debut in 1960, while still only seventeen. He made his debut on the national team the same year. Roald Jensen and Brann won the league in 1961/62 and in 1963. After Brann's relegation in 1964, Jensen transferred to professional football in Scotland and Heart of Midlothian as their first non-British player. While he was in Scotland, Jensen was not able to play for Norway, as the national team did not allow professional players at that time.
In 1971 Jensen returned to Brann and won the Norwegian championship (cup) with the club in 1972. Jensen retired from football after the 1973 season, when he was thirty years old. Jensen died in 1987 while playing football for Brann's old boys team. The Kniksen award, a prize that acclaims the best players in Norwegian football, is named after Roald Jensen. In 1995 a statue of Kniksen was erected outside Brann Stadion in Bergen.

Rinoceronte vestido con puntillas
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By: neotrix.
A three-ton statue of a rhinoceros by Salvador Dalí was placed in Puerto Banús in 2004. Officially known as Rinoceronte vestido con puntillas ("Rhinoceros dressed in lace"), Dalí created the sculpture in 1956 following the filming of his surrealist movie La aventura prodigiosa de la encajera y el rinoceronte ("The prodigious adventure of the lacemaker and the rhinoceros") in 1954.

The Twisted Chimney
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By: hhgygy.
Located just north of the village of Butetown, near Rhymney, Caerphilly, South Wales, the Twisted Chimney or Simnai Dirdro was created by New York sculptor Brian Tolle. The sculpture is 16 metres long and eight metres tall.

Wallace Fountain
Wallace fountains are public drinking fountains that appear in the form of small cast-iron sculptures scattered throughout the city of Paris, France. mainly along the most-frequented sidewalks. They are named after the Englishman Richard Wallace, who financed their construction. A great aesthetic success, they are recognized worldwide as one of the symbols of Paris.
Most of the fountains still present in the city still work, and distribute, contrary to popular belief, perfectly potable water. They are the rare points of free water in the city to the great relief of the homeless for whom they are a life-source and the thirst of passers-by which the fountains often quench. Sir Richard Wallace has achieved his goal and probably fulfilled his hopes, although the number of the destitute still on Parisian streets would probably disappoint him 120 years after his actions.
The fountains work from March 15 to November 15 (the risk of freezing during the months of winter would imperil the internal plumbing), are regularly maintained, and repainted every two years.
They are an integral part of the Parisian landscape, typical and picturesque, of the same importance as the Eiffel Tower or the street urchins of Montmartre, as their creators would have wished. In Amélie, the cinegraphic piece about the glory of Parisian folklore, Jean-Pierre Jeunet baptised a personality Madeleine Wallace (she cried like a madeleine, or like a Wallace fountain), although the English subtitled version renamed the character of Madeleine, to Madeleine Wells for cultural understanding.
For more than a century they have been in place, and these monuments have never had to suffer criticism. They were always respected, even by the Nazis who had melted a number of statues to make arms. However, curiously, they are not classified as "historic monuments".

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Wesley Branch Rickey (December 20, 1881 – December 9, 1965) was an innovative Major League Baseball executive elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1967. He was known for breaking Major League Baseball's color barrier by signing African American player Jackie Robinson, for drafting the first Hispanic superstar, Roberto Clemente, for creating the framework for the modern minor league farm system, and for introducing the batting helmet.
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