An eight-metre pink cockatoo, a brick tower built for the family goats, Bigfoot at full height, the single bronze foot left of a stolen statue. Nobody needed any of them, and each has a story about who built it anyway.
A five-metre concrete vinegar bottle, standing where Perstorp's vinegar-making began
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A fiberglass elephant in giant glasses, posted at a Wisconsin gas station
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A rancher's decades of welded scrap-metal creatures roadside in Kansas
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A 1960s mini-golf dinosaur mascot Jacksonville saved and repainted in 2007
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A 40-foot fiberglass catfish on the Red River that looks like it is swimming when the spring floods come
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A homemade carnival float that never left its Somerset field
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A 30-foot brick tower built exclusively for the family's climbing goats
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A prairie town that leaned all the way into sharing its name with Spock's planet
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The nine-year-old who rode his pony 600 miles to watch the Sydney Harbour Bridge open
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A 3-meter tortilla sculpted with 450 scenes of Mexican history
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A Death Valley junction marked by a pile of abandoned engine crankshafts
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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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Bigfoot, the Wendigo and the Beast of Bray Road, at full height
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Half a mile of Ohio history painted onto the wall that saved the town
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An eight-sided Ohio farmhouse where the rooms are cut like slices of pie
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A Depression-era dairy co-op that twice made the best cheese in the world
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