The four-foot-tall bronze statue of “The Fearless Girl” was created by Kristen Visbal in 2017 for International Women’s Day. It once faced down the famous Charging Bull statue that has long stood in Manhattan’s Bowling Green Park near Wall Street, but has since relocated to a new spot in front of the New York Stock Exchange on Broad Street.

Carved by the Olmec civilization, the Olmec heads are believed to depict rulers of importance from this Mesoamerican civilization. Historians estimate that the statues, which range from 3.8 feet to 11.2 feet in height, date to around 900 BCE. They were later rediscovered in 1862 before finally gaining worldwide attention in 1938.

This masterpiece of Greek Hellenisitc art originally was an offering to the gods on the Greek island of Samothrace. It now stands atop the Daru staircase at the Louvre, where it's been housed since 1883. The statue shows the winged goddess Nike as she descends upon a ship whose sailors have just won a naval battle.

Known appropriately by the nickname "Big Buddha," Hong Kong's Tian Tan Buddha is the world's largest seated bronze Buddha statue. It sits on Lantau Island adjacent to the Po Lin Monastery of Hong Kong. Construction on the 112-foot-tall behemoth began in 1990 and was completed in 1993. The statue rests atop a 268-step stairwell and is surrounded by forested peaks.

If you find yourself swimming off the coast of San Fruttuoso, you might just run into an eight-foot bronze replica of Jesus Christ, created by sculptor Guido Galletti in 1954. The 570-pound statue sits underwater to honor Dario Gonzatti, the first Italian to use scuba gear. Can’t make it to Italy? Replicas have been placed off the coast of the Florida Keys and above ground on the island of Grenada.

Created by Czech sculptor Irena Sedlecka, this 10-foot-tall bronze statue of Queen's frontman was unveiled in 1996 by the band's guitarist Brian May. The statue was initially intended for London, though it found its eventual home in Montreux, where Mercury maintained a residence and Queen recorded several albums. Fans of the band can view the statue on the shores of Lake Geneva.

The Thinker, known in Auguste Rodin's native French as Le Penseur, is a six-foot-tall bronze statue that was cast in 1904 and is now located in the gardens of Paris' Rodin Museum. The statue depicts a pensive individual placing his chin atop his hand. It was originally titled The Poet, as it was meant to represent Italian poet Dante Alighieri.

The mythical merlion — half-lion, half-fish — is a national icon of Singapore, where it’s said to represent the city’s beginnings as a fishing village, as well as its original name of Singapura (“Lion City” in Malay). This merlion statue was unveiled in 1972 at the mouth of the Singapore River but later moved to its current location in Merlion Park overlooking Marina Bay.

Located in the city of Volgograd, The Motherland Calls stands 279 feet tall from its base to the tip of its 108-foot-long stainless steel sword, thus making it the world's tallest statue of a woman. Commemorating the WWII Battle of Stalingrad, it was completed in October 1967 and was the tallest statue anywhere at the time of its construction; it remains the tallest statue in Europe to this day.

Considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Colossus of Rhodes once loomed over the harbor of Rhodes, Greece. Sculptor Chares of Lyndus designed the 105-foot-tall monolith, composed of bronze and reinforced with iron, to depict the sun god Helios. The Colossus tragically crumbled during an earthquake around 225 BCE.

Carved into a mountain overlooking the confluence of three rivers in China — the Dadu, the Qingyi, and the Min — the Leshan Giant Buddha stands 233 feet tall and took more than 90 years to carve. The statue is believed to be the world’s biggest stone-carved Buddha and was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.

Located on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, the two marble lions guarding the New York Public Library are named Patience and Fortitude. The statues were dedicated in 1911 and named by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia during the 1930s to embody the traits New Yorkers would need to exude to survive the era's economic depression. The lions are so famous that they were even featured in the 1978 film "The Wiz."

Workers had to do some reconstructive surgery on Rio de Janeiro's famed Christ the Redeemer statue in 2014, after it was struck by lightning. The strike chipped the statue's right-hand thumb. The massive monument is actually struck by lightning three to five times a year, but it’s rare for the strikes to cause any harm to the statue.

One of Copenhagen’s most photographed tourist attractions is only four feet tall. Edvard Eriksen’s bronze-and-granite statue of the Little Mermaid is perched upon a pile of rocks in the city’s harbor. Unveiled in 1913, the artwork was a gift to the city from Danish brewer Carl Jacobsen, who fell in love with Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale after attending a ballet performance based on the story.

The 597-foot-tall “Statue of Unity” near Vadodara, India, took the world’s tallest statute title when it was completed in 2018. The gargantuan monument commemorates the country’s founding father of independence, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, nicknamed the “Iron Man of India.” It cost more than $400 million to build and is taller than four Statues of Liberty.

Featuring thousands of individual terracotta soldiers, horses, and chariots, the Terracotta Army is one of the grandest sculptural collections in the world. This "army" adorns the mausoleum of Shi Huandi — the founder of the Qin dynasty and first emperor of China. The buried soldiers were rediscovered by farmers in 1974, and the army was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.

Easter Island (aka Rapa Nui) is a territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific famous for its nearly 1,000 mysterious stone heads called Moai. The Rapa Nui people carved these gargantuan monolithic figures between 1100 and 1500 CE, and they aren’t just heads — they actually have bodies buried beneath the ground. Archeologists suggest that they were related to burial sites located nearby.

Believed to be a depiction of the goddess Aphrodite, the Venus de Milo is a marble carving created by Greek sculptor Alexandros around 150 BCE. It was discovered in pieces on the island of Melos in 1820. While it was reconstructed, the statue's arms were never found. In 1821, it was donated to France's Louvre museum, where it is currently displayed.

Completed between 1501 and 1504, the “David” is one of the most famous works of Renaissance artist Michelangelo. The 14-foot-tall marble sculpture depicting the biblical hero was originally commissioned for the cathedral of Florence, but it was later placed in the Palazzo della Signoria, the city’s political heart. In 1873, it was moved to the Galleria dell’Accademia, where it remains today.

Standing proud in Tokyo Bay is a familiar statue: the Statue of Liberty. The replica is one-seventh of the original’s size but looks to be of scale, due to the perspective of the nearby Rainbow Bridge appearing to be much smaller in comparison. The Odaiba Statue of Liberty was initially intended to be a temporary installation, but became a permanent landmark in the harbor in 2000.

The Statue of Liberty, officially named "Liberty Enlightening the World," commemorates the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It was given to the United States by the people of France in 1886 to represent the alliance the two countries established during the American Revolution. The statue looms 305 feet over Liberty Island in New York Harbor as a proud symbol of freedom.