Weird sculptures and statues around the world

This is 'Reclining Liberty' in New York City. The famous Statue of Liberty is taking a break in Morningside Park. Artist Zaq Landsberg describes the artwork as "a mashup of the Statue of Liberty and the giant reclining Buddha statues found in Asia," Patch.com reported in April 2021.

Volunteers help paint the sculpture, showing in the process how big it really is. The 24/25-foot, lazy statue will remain in the Harlem park for about a year.

Let's see which other, weird sculptures people have built around the world.

Why choose a discreet decoration when you can place a huge shark on the roof of your house? Bil Heinne, the owner, commissioned this work to represent the impotence he felt in the face of nuclear accidents. The house can be rented through AirBnB, by the way.

Charles Robb created this inverted monument in honour of Charles Joseph La Trobe, a lieutenant governor of the state of Victoria from the nineteenth century. It is not known why the artist decided to place the work upside down.

With the intention of making a modern version of the famous Stonehenge monument, the artist Jim Reinders and some of his relatives built this large sculpture with 38 vehicles in 1987.

At about 1,400 metres above sea level is the so-called Ba Na Golden Bridge. As shown in the image, the structure seems to be held by two giant hands. In recent years, it has become one of the Vietnamese places most visited by tourists.

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The artist Louise Bourgeois created this large sculpture, which now belongs to the permanent collection of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. The giant spider, or Mama, weighs 22 tons and has a height of 10 metres.

(Photo: Pascal Bernardon / Unplash)

On a wall in the Paris district of Montmartre, sculptor Jean Marais placed this curious work of art. It shows a man walking through the wall and is a tribute to the work of writer Marcel Aymé.

This curious sculpture by Tom Otternesse shows a crocodile emerging from a sewer and eating a man with a head in the shape of a sack of money. The man represents capitalism.

The famous spoon-shaped bridge with a cherry finish was created by Swedish-American artist Claes Oldenburg and his wife Coosje Van Bruggen in 1980.

'The Hand of the Desert' was created in 1992 by the Chilean artist Mario Irarrázabal. Built in reinforced concrete, it is eleven metres high. But what is the meaning of the hand? It's different for each person who sees it, the artist says.

This giant steel fork weighs 8 tons and is 8 metres high. It was made by the Swiss sculptor Jean-Pierre Zaugg in 1995, coinciding with the tenth anniversary of a museum dedicated to the gastronomy of Vevei.

Close to America's famous Route 66 you can enjoy the colourful Cadillac Ranch. Composed of ten old, half-buried Cadillacs, it's a creation by Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez, and Doug Michels in 1974.

The famous Japanese cartoon character was honored with a replica measuring 18 metres in altitude and weighing 88 tons. The public could see it for the first time on Odaiba Island in 2009.

(Image: Sebastian Kurpiel / Unsplash)

Prague has many curious sculptures. One of them is called 'Hanging Man' (Viselec), by the brilliant artist David Cerny. The figure represents Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis.

The impressive sculpture that crowns the 'Fountain of the Fallen Angel' dates from 1877. Made by the sculptor Ricardo Bellver, it can be enjoyed in Madrid's Retiro Park. Curious fact: It was placed on an altitude of 666 metres above sea level.... A tribute to the Devil?

This famous Brazilian sculpture in Sao Paulo's Ibirapuera Park represents a childhood scene from the early twentieth century, where children try to catch a pig with their bare hands. Ricardo Cipicchia made it in 1950.

This sculpture shows a large needle with a beetle at its top. It's 23 metres high and was made by the Belgian artist Jan Fabre in 2004.

Created by sculptors Sergejus Plotnikovas and Svajunas Jurkus, the work portrays a ghost who, according to a local legend, wandered in front of Klaipeda Castle to warn its people of an imminent scarcity of grain and wood reserves.

A large water tank in the shape of a spacecraft makes this large sculpture one of the main attractions of Varginha (Brazil). Popular legend has it that, in 1996, extraterrestrials were seen near this great flying dish.

The sculpture of this rocking granny is a tribute to Angeles Rodriguez Hidalgo, a popular grandmother living in Madrid's Vallecas neighborhood. At age 70, she became very popular by declaring herself a fan of heavy metal. The sculpture was made to honour her after she died.

The Fountain of the Ogre (a creature that eats children) is one of the oldest and most picturesque in Bern. It was built in 1545 by the artist Hans Gieng. There are different theories about who the ogre is: a Jew, a demon, a god, a popular character, or perhaps the brother of the city's founder.

The Thumb is a Parisian sculpture created by César Baldaccini in 1965. It is twelve metres high, weighs 18 tons and is located in the financial center of the French capital.

Here's a curious sculpture, located in Turku (Finland), representing a hybrid between pig and pink duck.

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For quirky statues, Prague seems to be a hotspot. David Cerny made this curious work, which you may find at the Lucerne Passage in Prague.

The Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park is a collection of underwater art located at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea, off the west coast of Granada. It was created by British sculptor Jason de Caires Taylor.

Shoes on the Banks of the Danube is a sculptural ensemble created in honor of the Jews killed during the Second World War. The work is signed by the Hungarian artists Gyula Pauer and Can Togay.