Funny Public Statues Around the World

Most city statues ask you to stand up straight and think about a general. These ones were made to get a laugh: a bronze sewer worker peeking out of a manhole, a psychoanalyst dangling from a roof by one hand, a little boy who has been relieving himself in public for four centuries and owns a wardrobe bigger than yours. Every photo shows the sculpture itself in its street, square or courtyard, so you know what to look for when you get there. The test for a place was simple: the joke had to be the point, not an accident. Solemn memorials stay out, and so do buildings shaped like objects and giant roadside figures, which have galleries of their own.