# 16The Merlion is a well-known marketing icon of Singapore depicted as a mythical creature with a lion's head a
The Merlion was first used in Singapore as the logo for the tourism board. The Merlion is similar to the heraldic sea-lion which occurs in a number of different artistic traditions.
#15 Frogner Park in Oslo is a beautiful place. It is filled with a great number of statues that capture the beauty and grace of human anatomy in a way that has to be seen to be believed. Also, this statue of a naked man kicking the shit out of several babies.
#14“The Awakening,” J. Seward Johnson Jr.’s 15-foot-high sculpture of a giant struggling to emerge from the earth. Place : Potomac River in Prince George’s County USA.
#13 Verity is a stainless steel and bronze statue created by Damien Hirst. The 20.25-metre (66.4 ft) tall sculpture stands on the pier at the entrance to the harbour in Ilfracombe, Devon, looking out over the Bristol Channel towards South Wales. It has been loaned to the town for 20 years The name of the piece refers to "truth" and Hirst describes his work as a "modern allegory of truth and justice".
The statue depicts a pregnant woman holding aloft a sword while carrying the scales of justice and standing on a pile of law books. Half of the sculpture shows the internal anatomy of the pregnant woman, with the foetus clearly visible.
#12 Designed to bloom during the day and close at night just like most real flowers do, Floralis Generica is a beautiful metallic sculpture that popped up in Buenos Aires back in 2002. The amazing aluminum and stainless steel art piece was created by Argentine architect Eduardo Catalano. Measuring 20 meters high Floralis Generica is the city's first mobile sculpture and is controlled by a hydraulic system and photocells.
#11Scottish sculptor Rob Mulholland creates eerie mirrored sculptures out of Perspex, a kind of acrylic glass. The pieces create the uncanny effect of blending into their surroundings, at times appearing almost completely camouflaged and yet jumping out at you suddenly as your perspective shifts around them. Mulholland’s largest installation of six figures, Vestige, is currently installed at David Marshall Lodge in Scotland
# 10 Genghis Khan Equestrian Statue
The Genghis Khan Equestrian Statue is a colossal ode to Genghis Khan himself and stands at a whopping 130 feet high. It depicts him sitting on top of an equally large horse on the bank of Tuul River where Genghis Khan apparently found a golden whip.
# 9 Nelson Mandela
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela, South Africa unveiled this sculpture. It creates the image of Nelson Mandela himself from afar, but as you step closer to it, you will see that it is made of several bars with strange shapes so that the image disappears if you are not far enough away or at the wrong angle.
# 8 Sverd i Fjell / Swords in Rock
On the coast of Norway, you might spot some colossal stone swords sticking out of the ground as if they were stabbed into the earth by a giant. They are called Sverd i Fjell, or “Swords in the Rock” in English. They are 32 feet tall and are meant to commemorate the victory of King Harald Fairhair during a battle in 872. The hilt of each sword is also meant to represent a different part of the country.
# 7 Neil Dawson’s Horizons (New Zealand)
Neil Dawson’s most well-known piece is quite possibly “Horizons”, a statue that doubles as an optical illusion. It is a thick wire statue that tricks your eye into thinking it’s a cartoon drawing superimposed onto a photo. Dawson’s sculptures are always placed at a point that tricks you into thinking it is not a 3D object and instead a line drawing.
# 6 Giant Lamp of Malmo
In the Swedish city of Malmo, there is a light that is always on. It’s known as the Giant Lamp, a 19-foot sculpture that is surprisingly popular among locals and tourists alike. It is pretty much just a giant scale reproduction of a normal table lamp that turns on every night. There is an added creepiness factor to it though in that it emits a voice that speaks in a broken Swedish that sounds a little bit like demonic tongues.
# 5 Christ of the Abyss
Christ of the Abyss is a bronze statue that is submerged off the coast in the Mediterranean Sea on the Italian Riviera. The statue was placed into the water in August of 1954 at a depth of about 17 meters or 55 feet into the water and only stands at about 2.5 meters or 8 feet tall. There are actually two exact copies of the Christ of the Abyss, both of which are also placed into the water. One is off the coast of St. George, Grenada and another is near Key Largo, Florida.
# 4 Blue Mustang
The Denver National Airport is the center of many conspiracies, which probably isn’t helped by the Blue Mustang It is a giant horse statue that greets visitors at the airport. It stands 32 feet high and intimidates everyone with its eyes that glow red at night. It has both been publicly hated and passionately defended by the public. However, the fact that a part of it killed its sculptor Luis Jimenez while he was building it might have been a bad omen we should have taken more seriously.
# 3 Spring Temple Buddha
The tallest statue in the world is in Henan China and measures 128 meters or 420 feet high. It is taller than the Statue of Liberty by more than 100 feet. Building it reportedly cost around 55 million dollars US and has a total weight of 1,000 metric tons. For scale, a single one of it’s toes is taller than the average human.
# 2 Peter the Great
The Peter the Great Statue is an infamous monument that stands 98-meter or 321 feet tall located on the bank of Moskva River in central Moscow. It is the eighth tallest statue in the world and weighs in at around 1,000 tons. It is more known for being the most loathed statue in the world and often makes the lists of “Ugliest Buildings in the World”. Peter the Great apparently hated Moscow so much he moved the capital of Russia from Moscow to St. Petersburg, so you can see why the people of Moscow don’t appreciate the statue’s presence
# 1 Leshan Giant Buddha
Built in the Mount Emei in China is the Leshan Giant Buddha, a 71 meter or 233-foot tall statue built sometime around 1200 and 1300 years ago. It was carved directly into the cliff face with construction lead by a Chinese monk named Hai Tong. He apparently built the statue in hopes that Buddha would calm the rapid waters of the rivers below, as they were too turbulent for any shipping vessels that attempted to cross the water. Apparently, all the sediment and silt that were dislodged and carved away from the mountain fell into the river that the water actually did become calmer and safer to travel in. While the statue is more than a thousand years old, it actually has a sophisticated drainage system built into it that pushes water away and reduces weathering. It is often called the largest statue built before the modern-era.
The Merlion was first used in Singapore as the logo for the tourism board. The Merlion is similar to the heraldic sea-lion which occurs in a number of different artistic traditions.
#15 Frogner Park in Oslo is a beautiful place. It is filled with a great number of statues that capture the beauty and grace of human anatomy in a way that has to be seen to be believed. Also, this statue of a naked man kicking the shit out of several babies.
What exactly is going on here? Is it ... symbolic of something? Or, even better, is it memorializing an actual person?
Did this used to be an Olympic event, and did this guy win the gold for
Norway? Did they knock off points for having his dick out?
This baffling statue actually depicts four child-shaped "genii" spirits attacking a man. Or maybe only three of them are spirits, and he just happened to be doing his daily nude baby punt when they descended on him. Really, feel free to just write your own backstory here.
This baffling statue actually depicts four child-shaped "genii" spirits attacking a man. Or maybe only three of them are spirits, and he just happened to be doing his daily nude baby punt when they descended on him. Really, feel free to just write your own backstory here.
#14“The Awakening,” J. Seward Johnson Jr.’s 15-foot-high sculpture of a giant struggling to emerge from the earth. Place : Potomac River in Prince George’s County USA.
#13 Verity is a stainless steel and bronze statue created by Damien Hirst. The 20.25-metre (66.4 ft) tall sculpture stands on the pier at the entrance to the harbour in Ilfracombe, Devon, looking out over the Bristol Channel towards South Wales. It has been loaned to the town for 20 years The name of the piece refers to "truth" and Hirst describes his work as a "modern allegory of truth and justice".
The statue depicts a pregnant woman holding aloft a sword while carrying the scales of justice and standing on a pile of law books. Half of the sculpture shows the internal anatomy of the pregnant woman, with the foetus clearly visible.
#12 Designed to bloom during the day and close at night just like most real flowers do, Floralis Generica is a beautiful metallic sculpture that popped up in Buenos Aires back in 2002. The amazing aluminum and stainless steel art piece was created by Argentine architect Eduardo Catalano. Measuring 20 meters high Floralis Generica is the city's first mobile sculpture and is controlled by a hydraulic system and photocells.
#11Scottish sculptor Rob Mulholland creates eerie mirrored sculptures out of Perspex, a kind of acrylic glass. The pieces create the uncanny effect of blending into their surroundings, at times appearing almost completely camouflaged and yet jumping out at you suddenly as your perspective shifts around them. Mulholland’s largest installation of six figures, Vestige, is currently installed at David Marshall Lodge in Scotland
# 10 Genghis Khan Equestrian Statue
The Genghis Khan Equestrian Statue is a colossal ode to Genghis Khan himself and stands at a whopping 130 feet high. It depicts him sitting on top of an equally large horse on the bank of Tuul River where Genghis Khan apparently found a golden whip.
# 9 Nelson Mandela
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela, South Africa unveiled this sculpture. It creates the image of Nelson Mandela himself from afar, but as you step closer to it, you will see that it is made of several bars with strange shapes so that the image disappears if you are not far enough away or at the wrong angle.
# 8 Sverd i Fjell / Swords in Rock
On the coast of Norway, you might spot some colossal stone swords sticking out of the ground as if they were stabbed into the earth by a giant. They are called Sverd i Fjell, or “Swords in the Rock” in English. They are 32 feet tall and are meant to commemorate the victory of King Harald Fairhair during a battle in 872. The hilt of each sword is also meant to represent a different part of the country.
# 7 Neil Dawson’s Horizons (New Zealand)
Neil Dawson’s most well-known piece is quite possibly “Horizons”, a statue that doubles as an optical illusion. It is a thick wire statue that tricks your eye into thinking it’s a cartoon drawing superimposed onto a photo. Dawson’s sculptures are always placed at a point that tricks you into thinking it is not a 3D object and instead a line drawing.
# 6 Giant Lamp of Malmo
In the Swedish city of Malmo, there is a light that is always on. It’s known as the Giant Lamp, a 19-foot sculpture that is surprisingly popular among locals and tourists alike. It is pretty much just a giant scale reproduction of a normal table lamp that turns on every night. There is an added creepiness factor to it though in that it emits a voice that speaks in a broken Swedish that sounds a little bit like demonic tongues.
# 5 Christ of the Abyss
Christ of the Abyss is a bronze statue that is submerged off the coast in the Mediterranean Sea on the Italian Riviera. The statue was placed into the water in August of 1954 at a depth of about 17 meters or 55 feet into the water and only stands at about 2.5 meters or 8 feet tall. There are actually two exact copies of the Christ of the Abyss, both of which are also placed into the water. One is off the coast of St. George, Grenada and another is near Key Largo, Florida.
# 4 Blue Mustang
The Denver National Airport is the center of many conspiracies, which probably isn’t helped by the Blue Mustang It is a giant horse statue that greets visitors at the airport. It stands 32 feet high and intimidates everyone with its eyes that glow red at night. It has both been publicly hated and passionately defended by the public. However, the fact that a part of it killed its sculptor Luis Jimenez while he was building it might have been a bad omen we should have taken more seriously.
# 3 Spring Temple Buddha
The tallest statue in the world is in Henan China and measures 128 meters or 420 feet high. It is taller than the Statue of Liberty by more than 100 feet. Building it reportedly cost around 55 million dollars US and has a total weight of 1,000 metric tons. For scale, a single one of it’s toes is taller than the average human.
# 2 Peter the Great
The Peter the Great Statue is an infamous monument that stands 98-meter or 321 feet tall located on the bank of Moskva River in central Moscow. It is the eighth tallest statue in the world and weighs in at around 1,000 tons. It is more known for being the most loathed statue in the world and often makes the lists of “Ugliest Buildings in the World”. Peter the Great apparently hated Moscow so much he moved the capital of Russia from Moscow to St. Petersburg, so you can see why the people of Moscow don’t appreciate the statue’s presence
# 1 Leshan Giant Buddha
Built in the Mount Emei in China is the Leshan Giant Buddha, a 71 meter or 233-foot tall statue built sometime around 1200 and 1300 years ago. It was carved directly into the cliff face with construction lead by a Chinese monk named Hai Tong. He apparently built the statue in hopes that Buddha would calm the rapid waters of the rivers below, as they were too turbulent for any shipping vessels that attempted to cross the water. Apparently, all the sediment and silt that were dislodged and carved away from the mountain fell into the river that the water actually did become calmer and safer to travel in. While the statue is more than a thousand years old, it actually has a sophisticated drainage system built into it that pushes water away and reduces weathering. It is often called the largest statue built before the modern-era.
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