World's Strangest Monuments
Posted by kluciole at 10/11/2009 11:25 PM 
Categories: news, History, Humor, International, Environment, Travel, Cultures, Art
Categories: news, History, Humor, International, Environment, Travel, Cultures, Art
World's Strangest Monuments
From a 25-foot shark crashing through a roof to Mongolia’s giant statue of Genghis Khan, the world’s weirdest monuments display local quirks.
Underwater Gallery, Grenada
Jason deCaires Taylor
What Makes It Strange: This series of sculptures in the clear, shallow waters off the coast of Grenada has one highly unusual characteristic: it is accessible only to divers (though it can also be viewed through glass-bottomed boats). Sculptor Jason de Caires Taylor created the works, a series of human figures in various groupings and settings, as the world’s first underwater sculpture park, which also serves as an artificial reef to promote conservation awareness.
Read all of them: HERE
Underwater Gallery
Grenada
What It Commemorates: Reef ecosystems.
What Makes It Strange: This series of sculptures in the clear, shallow waters off the coast of Grenada has one highly unusual characteristic: it is accessible only to divers (though it can also be viewed through glass-bottomed boats). Sculptor Jason de Caires Taylor created the works, a series of human figures in various groupings and settings, as the world’s first underwater sculpture park, which also serves as an artificial reef to promote conservation awareness.
Read all of them: HERE
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