You’re Fired: 10 Famed Flamed Statues & Monuments
Gone up in flames and burned down to the ground – these 10 well-known statues, monuments and large-scale advertisements all fell to fire, if not fury. “I like big fat men like you,” ...
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The Modern Colossal: 7 Lesser-Known Monumental Wonders of the World
Everyone knows about the Statue of Liberty, the Easter Island Moai heads, Mount Rushmore and the Sphinxes of Ancient Egypt, but not all monstrous monuments were built in centuries past. Colossal ...
Satan Claus: 10 More Scary & Creepy Santa Statues
Santa Claus is coming to town... consider yourself warned! These creepy Santa statues hail not from the North Pole but somewhere much, MUCH further south. Talk about Lost in ...
Advertising Giants: America’s Amazing Muffler Men
Before Mad Men there were Muffler Men – 20-foot tall fiberglass statues cast in the thousands to advertise roadside businesses from coast to coast. Muffler Men are one of the most ...
Memorable Memorials: 10 Extraordinary War Monuments
These extraordinary war monuments stand out from the crowd in commemorating those who have fallen while performing their duty in the service of their country. Memorial Day was formerly ...
Santa Claustrophobia: The World’s Creepiest Santa Statues
The ho-ho-horror! Much like creepy clowns, these dark and disturbing Santa Claus statues cross the fine line separating awe-inspiring and just plain awful. One would think the bizarre ...
Still Standing Tall: 7 Monumental Statues of the Ancient World
Perhaps we’ll never know what it was like land on a Greek Island and gaze up at the long-lost Colossus of Rhodes, one of the original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but there are many ...
Staggering Statues: 7 Monumental Wonders of the Former Soviet Union
Nobody could ever accuse the Soviets of being too modest in the scale of their monuments and colossal sculptures, and they left no shortage of absolutely bonkers concrete and stone creations all ...
Presidential Graveyard: 43 Colossal Statues Crumble in a Field
Nearly every single President of the United States, from George Washington through George W. Bush, sits in a dead field in Virginia, some with the tops of their heads blown off or streaks of dirt ...
Scattered Marbles: 10 Smashed, Bashed & Trashed Statues
As our age's great and powerful leaders rise and fall, so do the narcissistic, now Ozymandias-like statues they raised to celebrate their fleeting triumph. Duck, Gaddafi The 2011 Libyan ...
