The Weirdest Statues Ever Made Around The World

The Weirdest Statues Ever Made Around The World

Humans have been enshrining people, animals, and ideas in statue form for thousands of years. Whether it be of a progressive thinker, a beloved pet, or a god, statues can be found in nearly every city on Earth. But not all statues are as meaningful as one of Martin Luther King, Jr. or Greyfriar’s Bobby.

1. "The Travellers Have Arrived" by Gilie and Marc in Sydney
2. The man-pig statue in Haw Par Villa, Singapore
3. The plaque of the statue "Belle" on the Oudekerksplein in Amsterdam
4. This sexy face fail at the Fountain of the Baboon in Rome
5. Statue of Freddie Mercury overlooking Lake Geneva in Switzerland
6. St. Wenceslas riding a dead horse in a Prague shopping mall
7. "Maria" the robot from the 1927 film "Metropolis", currently looking over Babelsberg, Germany
8. The man with no head and arms in the Old Jewish Quarter of Prague
9. A hungry alligator coming out of the sewers to eat a baby in Brooklyn (probably in Park Slope)
10. The Žižkov Television Tower in Prague where "Babies" are crawling up the tower
11. The Kindlifresserbrunnen (Child Eater Fountain) in Bern, Switzerland, of an ogre eating a naked child and plucking more from its bag
12. The man selling too many watches in Vancouver
13. The bronze man getting a street haircut in Beijing
14. Another piece by Czech artist David Černý, "Gesture"
15. Giant monkey watching over two white human sculptures and the village
16. giant spider statue in Ottawa
17. Statue by Černý in central Prague
18. This cow who somehow got stuck up a tree in Melbourne
19. statue by cerny in central Prague
20. These statues laughing at everything you do in Vancouver
21. A statue of Michael Jackson in front of a McDonalds in the Netherlands
22. A statue of Charles Joseph Latrobe at Latrobe University in Australia showing what students feel like during exam week
23. A sculpture showing even the dead want their coffee
24. Bernd das Brot (Bernd the Bread Loaf): a statue of a grumpy, fatalistic loaf of bread in front of the Erfurt, Germany, town hall
25. The Peeing Statues by David Černý, peeing on the Czech Republic