The world's weirdest roundabouts – in pictures
No distraction is too bizarre when it’s in the middle of a roundabout. Here are some of the strangest and most beautiful examples, including from the hitherto-uncelebrated roundabout hotspot of Oman
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Shanghai maintains China’s reputation for brash and baffling with this worthy entrant
Photograph: Luiz Felipe Castro/Getty Images/Flickr RF
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Otford, Kent can boast a duck pond in the middle of its roundabout
Photograph: Ian Goodrick/Alamy
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Giant nails remind us that Normandy, France was a nail manufacturing powerhouse
Photograph: Alamy
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The Dorking Cockerel on the A24 roundabout in Surrey
Photograph: Greg Balfour Evans/Alamy
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A 15m-high thermometer in Målilla’s only roundabout recognises the Swedish temperature records that have been set there, both high and low
Photograph: Ingunn B. Haslekås/Moment Editorial/Getty
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So-called Banana Island - with watering cans and banana trees - was planted by residents of Cologne-Suedstadt, Germany and proclaimed a ‘banana republic’
Photograph: dpa picture alliance archive/Alamy
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France has the most roundabouts in the world, including this Clessé classic of a miniature windmill and watermill - both of which turn
Photograph: Tony Emmett/Getty Images/Flickr Open
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A metal warship sits on Peasholm roundabout in Scarborough, Yorkshire
Photograph: Alamy
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Salalah, Oman features a clock tower in the centre of a roundabout
Photograph: Alamy
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The Whittle Jet memorial in Lutterworth, Leicestershire was featured in the Best of British Roundabouts 2016 calendar
Photograph: Alamy
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A church on a housing estate in Oldham, Greater Manchester, finds itself surrounded
Photograph: Alamy
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Newport, Wales, where someone has sculpted pandas out of a motorway roundabout flower bed
Photograph: Chris Howes/Wild Places Photography/Alamy
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Nizwa, Oman shows off its reputation for learning with a giant stack of books
Photograph: GFC Collection/Alamy Stock Photo
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Belgium, which gave us Rene Magritte, also provides us with this disembodied tap sculpture in a roundabout in Ypres
Photograph: Alamy
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A sculptor has turned this roundabout in Lanzarote, Canary Islands into a work of art
Photograph: Robert Schneider/Alamy
