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Every city has monuments, by and large of historical heroes. But sometimes, you’ll encounter something more unusual. Here are some of our favourites!

1 The Musicians of Bremen
In a fairy tale published in 1819 by the Brothers Grimm, but taken from much older sources, a donkey, dog, cat and chicken escape their cruel masters. Their plan is to reach the German city of Bremen and become musicians. Along their journey, they find a house occupied by robbers. The animals stand on each other’s backs, creating such a strange shape at the window that the robbers flee, making the city safer for everyone. A statue of the animals now stands in the main square, a symbol of Bremen as a beacon of hope, one enriched by diverse newcomers.
 

2 The Venus of Gyoza
Step outside Utsunomiya’s train station in central Japan and you’ll notice a peculiar statue which, on closer inspection, reveals itself as a 1.5-metre-high dumpling with a woman’s face and legs. Allegedly Japan’s ‘gyoza capital’, Utsunomiya is where these dumplings were first brought to the island nation from the Asian mainland. Now home to hundreds of gyoza restaurants and an annual gyoza festival, people come from far and wide to sample’s Utsunomiya culinary delights.
 

3 The Dirgantara Monument
Upon a base arching 27 metres into the sky stands an 11-metre-tall man pointing dramatically into the distance. This statue in Jakarta, looming over the hustle and bustle of a major motorway, was created in the 1960s and various urban myths have since arisen as to what it’s pointing towards, including a hidden treasure. Officially, it’s gesturing to the former location of Kemayoran Airport, Indonesia’s gateway to the world. That closed down in 1985, but the monument remains, keeping alive its original purpose of honouring Indonesia’s aviation industry.
 

4 El Santo
In Mexico City’s Tepito neighbourhood stands a statue of a man whose head is completely covered by a mask. It represents Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, a Tepito resident. First and foremost, Guzmán was a professional wrestler who went by the name of El Santo, but he also had a lengthy film career and even his own comic-book character. A huge figure in Mexican popular culture, Guzmán was never seen in public without his mask until he finally removed it in a TV interview just days before his death in 1984. Statues of him now stand across Mexico.

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