Today’s catch is four places you laugh at before you learn the story. Two were built to be funny — an eight-metre roadside cockatoo, a bridge whose stone figures are all mid-squat — and two got there by accident: a Suzhou tower the whole country decided looks like a giant pair of trousers, and a lone bronze foot left standing where a champion’s statue was stolen.
A Suzhou tower so trouser-shaped it drew an official complaint about weird buildings
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An 8-metre pink cockatoo marking the halfway point across Australia
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Four relief figures on an Aarhus bridge, each caught mid-squat
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All that survives of a stolen statue of an Olympic champion — a single bronze foot
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