Do gargoyles frighten you? Do you enjoy their whimsy or get a shiver when passing them, even imagining they come to life after dark, as portrayed in legends and horror movies? Despite their distorted, ...

Question: When is a gargoyle not a gargoyle? Answer: When it is a grotesque, of course! Gargoyles, by definition, are carved figures of stone, with spouts designed to convey water from rooftops to the ...

A concrete jungle of a wild kind brings playfulness to the order and symmetry of the city’s foremost, most defining skyline.

The word gargoyle is from the French word gargouille, which means throat. A real gargoyle is a waterspout, projecting from a gutter, which throws water out away from the wall and foundations of a ...

Yalemen, like most collegians, have long dwelt in the shadow of the gargoyle. Gothic architecture, with its encrusted spires and ogives, was the accepted way of making scholarship look more scholarly.

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. What would you call the figure pictured above? “Gargoyle” is ...

Sometimes, they’re frighteningly ugly, the things nightmares are made from. Sometimes, they’re angelic or they pay homage to others. And sometimes, “grotesque” can be the most appropriate word for ...

A building in the Netherlands has some uncommon decorations worthy of the 21st century — instead of gargoyles, why not emoji cast in concrete? Emoji have become ubiquitous nowadays, and there's a slew ...

Junkyard bargains, from limestone putti to dented iron deer, have long been available for those with offbeat tastes. But as architectural monuments are bulldozed into extinction across the land, a new ...

Near Glasgow, there is a 12th-century abbey "steeped in history" with the Xenomorph from "Alien" carved onto its walls. Inspired by the extraterrestrial from the famous film franchise, this carving is ...