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. And that’s what we’re focusing on – the weird, the bizarre, the “why in the heck did they make this?!” statue which makes you scratch your head. Are you such a big fan of the rock band Queen that you want to visit a statue of Freddie Mercury? There’s a strange statue for that. Or maybe you’d prefer to see the image of a man getting his hair cut encased in bronze? There’s a strange statue for that. Or maybe you are a fan of European folk stories and you would like to see a fountain-statue of a beast devouring children? Again, and bizarrely, there’s a strange statue for that. (World travelers will especially love this list as they’ll find some new, lesser-known corners of cities to visit while on vacation.) Read on in utter confusion as you see this list of 25 of the Weirdest Statues Ever Made.
"The Travellers Have Arrived" by Gilie and Marc in Sydney
Image: Wikipedia This man-pig statue in Haw Par Villa, Singapore
Image: William Cho via Flickr The plaque of the statue "Belle" on the Oudekerksplein in Amsterdam honors sex workers and reads: "Respect sex workers all over the world"
Image: Wikimedia Another statue on the street shows a bronze hand fondling a female breast.
This sexy face fail at the Fountain of the Baboon in Rome
Image: * Karl * via Flickr This statue of Freddie Mercury overlooking Lake Geneva in Switzerland
Image: Wikipedia St. Wenceslas riding a dead horse in a Prague shopping mall
Image: Wikipedia "Maria" the robot from the 1927 film "Metropolis", currently looking over Babelsberg, Germany
Image: Wikipedia A hungry alligator coming out of the sewers to eat a baby in Brooklyn (probably in Park Slope)
Image: Pixabay The man with no head and arms in the Old Jewish Quarter of Prague
Image: Wikipedia The Žižkov Television Tower in Prague where "Babies" are crawling up the tower
Image: Wikipedia The Kindlifresserbrunnen (Child Eater Fountain) in Bern, Switzerland, of an ogre eating a naked child and plucking more from its bag
Image: Wikipedia This man selling too many watches in Vancouver
Image: Mike McHolm via Flickr This bronze man getting a street haircut in Beijing
Image: Wikimedia Another piece by Czech artist David Černý, "Gesture" is…well, pretty self-explanatory
Image: Wikipedia This giant monkey watching over two white human sculptures and the village
Image: Pixabay This giant spider statue in Ottawa that would be terrifying to chance upon after dark
Image: Wikipedia This cow who somehow got stuck up a tree in Melbourne
Image: Niv Singer via Flickr This immensely provocative statue by Černý in central Prague
Image: Wikimedia These statues laughing at everything you do in Vancouver
Image: Pixabay A statue of Michael Jackson in front of a McDonalds in the Netherlands
Image: surlespasdemichaeljackson.com A statue of Charles Joseph Latrobe at Latrobe University in Australia showing what students feel like during exam week
Image: Wikimedia A sculpture showing even the dead want their coffee
Image: Pixabay "Chicken Boy", an old statue advertising a Los Angeles chicken restaurant that was recognized by Arnold Schwarzenegger with the Governor's Historic Preservation Award
Image: Wikipedia Bernd das Brot (Bernd the Bread Loaf): a statue of a grumpy, fatalistic loaf of bread in front of the Erfurt, Germany, town hall
Image: Wikipedia The Peeing Statues by David Černý, peeing on the Czech Republic
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