There are literally millions of park benches across the world and all of them are fairly standard structures – plain, blocked supports with a horizontal surface to sit on.  But some cities have thought out of the box and turned their park benches into beautiful, sometimes stunning, works of art.  Check out the collection of unusual park benches from around the world.

Park bench receded into lake, Wespol, Australia.

 

Curled benches outside of Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, England.

 

Paprocany Lake Shore seats in Tychy, Poland.

 

Hands holding board park bench in Kiev, Ukraine.

 

Lighted (solar powered) in Massachusetts.

 

Beautiful enclosed park bench in Luxembourg.

 

Whale tail park bench in Santa Barbara, California.

 

Typewriter key park bench.

 

London “book benches”: Narnia-themed The Witch and the Wardrobe bench.

 

Cantilevered bench seats at University of Sydney, Australia.

 

Tulip foldout seats.

 

Bus stop park benches in Baltimore, Maryland.

 

Two head park bench in Seoul, South Korea.

Shark park bench on Bangkok River.

 

Park bench made of fallen tree.

 

Slingshot park bench made from Y-shaped tree.

 

Park bench fashioned from skateboard decks (location unknown).

 

Upside down man park bench (location unknown).

 

Hands-feet park bench (location unknown)

 

 

Bench sculpture in British library.

 

 

Giant park bench in Berlin, Germany.

 

 

Tree Bench park bench in Pratt Park, Seattle, Washington.