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An 18-foot concrete troll crushing a real Volkswagen Beetle in one giant hand, lurking under a Seattle bridge — public art with a hubcap eye and a great backstory.
A former landfill on the edge of Sapporo, reborn as a vast piece of land-art by sculptor Isamu Noguchi: geometric grass pyramids, a glass pyramid, and a fountain that performs like a show.
A giant polka-dotted yellow pumpkin by Yayoi Kusama sits at the end of a concrete pier on an art island in the Inland Sea — so beloved it was rebuilt after a typhoon swept it out to sea.
