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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

12 of the Worlds Ugliest Statues

1.Located in downtown Enterprise, Alabama, USA, the horrible Boll Weevil Monument erected in 1919 to show their appreciation to an insect, the boll weevil, for its profound influence on the area's agriculture and economy.
2.This statue located in Burkina Faso, really takes the cake for ugly.
3.Is this a Denim Fetish Superman propositioning Acid Mrs. Butterworth? Nope. Is the fiesta dancers (by Luis Jimenez) at the University of New Mexico.
4.Meet "El MesteƱo", an eight-meter rearing monstrosity that welcomes visitors to Denver International Airport with its glowing eyes and frightening anatomical realism.
5.This is supposed to be a statue of Christopher Columbus. It's located in Seattle, near the aquarium.
6.Placed in front of the main terminal of Charlotte/Douglas International Airport in NC, USA, this monumental bronze statue of Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
7.The city of San Jose spent $500,000 on a sculpture of Quetzalcoatl (pronounced Ketz-ul-KWAT-il)
8.Sheep statue in Canberra, Australia.
9.Peter the Great Statue in Moscow, Russia. It was built by Zurab Tsereteli in 1997 upon the order of the Moscow government on the elongated island formed between the Moscow River and the Obvodny canal.
10.Located at the Clarendon Hotel, in London.
11.The Burnside Fountain, affectionately called "Turtle Boy"
12.No list like this is complete without the great Cheese Mite Memorial of Wurchwitz, Germany.

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