In a remarkable city filled with remarkable sights this is perhaps the most, well, remarkable.

Tucked away in a grimy warehouse area just outside of the gleaming Oz-like downtown, you turn the corner, go over the railroad tracks near the bayou, pass several rusting warehouses and there they are!

Sculptor David Adickes creates works larger than life. His 67-foot tall Sam Houston statue of Texas founder Sam Houston an hour north of the city is perhaps his greatest work. But the "Ghost Presidents Along the Bayou" is certainly his most unusual.

Once destined for a historical "amusement park" these gigantic presidential busts now sit restlessly in a dirt parking lot in front of the sculptor's studio.  No locked gates. No admission price.  No fancy signs.  Just giant presidential heads everywhere. We were the only ones there when my brother and his wife (our tour guides) glided into the parking area. To say my jaw dropped is a monument to understatement.

The busts are 17-feet tall.  And they are all here.  Silent Cal Coolidge, a torso-less Barack Obama, Texas' pride and joy LBJ, a bearded U.S. Grant, bewhiskered Martin Van Buren from our own Hudson Valley and all the rest.  Behind it all towers the visage of the four Beatles with their instruments.  John, Paul, George and Ringo, 35-feet in the air  inexplicably giving a private concert to our former chief executives.  It is bizarre and totally wonderful.

Take a look!

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My wife in front of the Beatles statue
My wife in front of the Beatles statue
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