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A giant rusted eel or fish skeleton rearing up beside the canal —…

A giant rusted eel or fish skeleton rearing up beside the canal —…, London
Photo: Mathew Attlee, CC BY-SA 4.0

A giant rusted eel or fish skeleton rearing up beside the canal — is it a sculpture or a leviathan escaped from the marshes? This wire-and-rebar creature turns scrap metal into folk-art myth, guarding the towpath at dusk.

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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