This has got to be one of the strangest monument ever: a sculpture of a Martian invader (a Tripod, actually) in Working Woking, England (H.G. Well’s hometown and the area in which the Martian first arrived in his novel War of the Worlds.
Deputy Dog has some awesome pics: Link
Photo: TzeKing [Flickr]
MoonCake
looks like the things from half-life2. DAMN those things were hard to kill…
Aidan
Is the typo “sculpture of a Martian invader in Working, England” meant to read “…working in England” or “…in Woking, England”?
If it’s the former we might be in deep trouble.
Skipweasel
Immortalised in Douglas Adams’ “Meaning of Liff”,
WOKING (participial vb.)
Standing in the kitchen wondering what you came in here for.
Matt
This is a great gallery of covers for the book, over the 100+ years it’s been in print. Lots of different tripod designs!
http://drzeus.best.vwh.net/wotw/
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