Weird things in cities that you know

[Stanislaw]

Inspired by Pendragons game about weird placenames...

Okay I'll start to give you the idea:

In Mundare, Alberta: Gigantic Stanicheys Kubasa Link (its like 20 feet tall)
In Vegreville, Alberta: (I totally butchered the speeling of the town) Gigantic Ukrainian easter egg.
In Glendon, Alberta: Gigantic Perogy on a Large Fork...its about 10 - 15 feet tall (I can't quite remember I was about 7 when I saw it)
In Vilna, Alberta: Gigantic set of three mushrooms.

Smokey Lake, Alberta: Gigantic annual pumkin growing contest.
(I have seen these all personally :thumbs_up )

(Guess which Canadian province I live in ;))
More Gigantic things in Canada (http://www.bigthings.ca/)
Check it out...we have more gigantic junk than just about anywhere in the world! :cool:

Okay...whats weird in your cities...or cities you have been to?

[Nightshade]

IN Marsa Matrooh Egypt : there is a big sign that says No wemmng ( No swimming) ok so not what you meant hummm

[Xamonas Chegwe]

In a cemetery in Leicester, England there is a rectangular, crypt-like grave. On the long side facing the road is the inscription, "Blessed are the dead which die". You have to actually enter the graveyard to see that it continues, "...in the Lord's name." around the side, which rather spoilt it for me! :lol:

[ElizabethSewall]

http://www.slayage.tv/siteimages/Nashville/BatBuilding.JPG
This is the batbuilding, in Nashville, Tennessee.

[Xamonas Chegwe]

It's a mirror (http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/360/views/sky_mirror.shtml) , but is it art?

[Stanislaw]

batbuilding...thats awesome! :D

Giant mirror...isnt that maybe dangerous?

[AimusSage]

I think they are secretly building a giant space weapon.

I can't think of any weird things in dutch cities. I guess I'm just to used to them to notice. If I think of anything, I'll be sure to post it here.

[Virgil]

This is the batbuilding, in Nashville, Tennessee.
Liz - You've been to Tennessee?

[Psycheinaboat]

In Hazard, Kentucky there is a shop built to look like a giant goose. Hazard is too small to be called a proper city, though, so I don't know if that counts.

[Xamonas Chegwe]

I think they are secretly building a giant space weapon.

I can't think of any weird things in dutch cities. I guess I'm just to used to them to notice. If I think of anything, I'll be sure to post it here.

I agree, Holland is really dull. All you have is half-naked girls in shop windows and cafés that sell soft-drugs. No-one could call that weird. :D

[Dixie Chick]

On December 11, 1919, the citizens of Enterprise, Alabama erected a monument to the boll weevil, the pest that devastated their fields but forced residents to end their dependence on cotton and to pursue mixed farming and manufacturing. A beetle measuring an average length of six millimeters, the insect entered the United States via Mexico in the 1890s and reached southeastern Alabama in 1915. It remains the most destructive cotton pest in North America.


http://www.auburn.edu/academic/classes/jrnl/4480001/bollweevil/images/bollweevil3.jpg

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Are you sure that wasn't in photoshop, Alabama, Dixie?:D

[Anon22]

Woah, whatever happened to this house? ;)

http://www.wqed.org/tv/specials/unusual/wonderworks/img/wonderworks_main.jpg

[ElizabethSewall]

Liz - You've been to Tennessee?
Yes Sir! ;) I spent a week there when I was fifteen. One of the best time I ever had. The family who welcomed me was lovely.

Have you been there as well Virgil?

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Is this the best bus station in the world or what?

It's in Cannes, where else? Can you name all of the films?

http://www.scottsmovies.com/art/cannes4.gif

[ElizabethSewall]

http://passages.ebbs.net/galerie/4France/murang1G.jpg http://www.shadowgallery.co.uk/angouleme/ville/yslaire1.jpg http://www.shadowgallery.co.uk/angouleme/ville/decrecy.jpg
http://www.shadowgallery.co.uk/angouleme/ville/cabanes1.jpg http://www.shadowgallery.co.uk/angouleme/ville/cabanes2.jpg http://www.shadowgallery.co.uk/angouleme/ville/cestac.jpg

This is Angoulême, the city where I was born. It is called "la ville de la BD" (aka the city of comics).

[Nightshade]

IN chester there is a pub called the old Queens head on on the swing sign is a picture of Anne Bolyne such lovley humor :D

[Xamonas Chegwe]

It looks great Elizabeth. I must visit next time I'm in France.

[ElizabethSewall]

Thanks Xamonas, it really is a beatiful little city. Perhaps I think this way because I've lived there?! :lol:

[Virgil]

Yes Sir! ;) I spent a week there when I was fifteen. One of the best time I ever had. The family who welcomed me was lovely.

Have you been there as well Virgil?
I've been to Knoxville on the other side of the state.

[Dixie Chick]

Are you sure that wasn't in photoshop, Alabama, Dixie?:D

I've seen the statue many times. Maybe that first picture was altered. I didn't notice when I chose it. Here is an older picture showing it's location in town.

http://www.heritagepreservation.org/PROGRAMS/SOS/4KIDS/4kids2000/AL.%20Boll%20WeevilOld.jpg

[Stanislaw]

A statue dedicated to a crop bug...cool!

another odd thing in Alberta:
http://www.roadsideattractions.ca/edbat.jpg

Its in such a weird place...no where near a baseball stadium, and in a city that has no baseball team...Edmonton!

Its really stupid. And it was built in the middle of nowhere...there is no way in hell a smart tourist would walk around the neighborehood where they set it up.

[tn2743]

Edmonton Canada???

Wow, it's a great city with many many many cheap golf courses!