Like most mid-sized cities, Rockford, Illinois is home to an art museum, a natural history museum, and a children’s museum. What visitors don’t expect is a quartet of 12-foot stone statues that have been likened to stone gladiators, petrified robots, and golems that will spring to life at any moment to defend the town of…
In the late 19th century, logging was all the rage in the American Midwest. In order to amuse themselves and unwind after hours of backbreaking work, loggers began to circulate tales of a burly fictional logger named Paul Bunyan who had the strength of 10 men. Paul Bunyan‘s fame spread nationwide in the early 20th…
If you ever find yourself in Georgetown — the capital of Guyana, a country tucked away in South America — chances are, you’ll come across a statue of a man holding what appears to be a fish. Since it’s unlikely you’ll be heading to Georgetown anytime soon, let me introduce you to this curious monument….
The best way to understand the story of a city is by visiting its most colossal statue because statues tell the stories deep in people’s hearts that their mouths often can’t utter. Now, the bigger the statue, the louder its story is because when it is hard to miss, it is hard to ignore. Now,…
In the early 1950s, Italian artist Guido Galletti designed a bronze statue of Jesus Christ that was placed in the Italian Riviera near San Fruttuoso to honor the legacy of diver Duilio Marcante and divers and sailors who lost their lives at sea. Galletti’s statue—known as Il Cristo degli Abissi, or Christ of the Abyss—was…
During the Bronze Age (1100-800 BC), a group of people known as Celts lived in Ireland. Celts believed that forces such as wind, rain, and even moonlight were associated with spirits that had the power to grant favors to humans—if said spirits were treated with respect. Bronze Age Celts built structures—such as stone circles that…
On a chilly November night in 1966, two couples were driving towards a World War II munitions plant that West Virginia locals referred to as the TNT area. Both couples spotted a frightful winged creature with eyes that flashed red when exposed to light. The couples claimed that a large, menacing creature with a sizable…
There are countless replicas and reimaginings of England’s mysterious Stonehenge—a prehistoric stone monument which historians believe was built to observe the summer solstice. One of the quirkiest and most imaginative Stonehenge recreations is Nebraska’s Carhenge, which was created by farmer Jim Reinders in the late 1980s. After spending time in England, Jim Reinders discovered that…
