Oh, There You Are! (8 Photos)

November 2, 2026

By Vidar

Someone is looking back

A hen at a vent, an upside-down girl between curtains and a giant cat under a road. Eight characters peek out from walls, railings and old stonework. Some are hard to miss. Others take a moment.

🪨 The Peeker of Conques — By an Unknown Sculptor in Conques, France 🇫🇷

A head and two hands peek over the stonework at the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy. After the giant faces, this one makes you look up and search.

💡 Nerd Fact: The Conques tourism office dates the portal’s sculpture to the first half of the 12th century. The sculptor’s name is unknown.

🐔 Curious Hen — By SMILE in Sintra, Portugal 🇵🇹

A hen leans out of a painted opening, with its feet straddling a real ventilation grille. The enormous beak makes this feel like a very close encounter.

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🐱 Peeking Cat — By Andy Dice Davies in Cheltenham, UK 🇬🇧

One paw is already out from under the arch. The person standing beside Andy Dice Davies’ cat makes its size wonderfully unreasonable. The cat sits under a road at Little Herberts Nature Reserve in Charlton Kings, reached from Little Herberts Road, according to Street Art Cities.

💡 Festival Fact: Andy “Dice” Davies is the founder and director of the Cheltenham Paint Festival. He started it after years of organizing paint jams along the town’s Honeybourne Line.

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🐾 Cat Behind Bars — By David Zinn in Michigan, USA 🇺🇸

A tiny chalk cat grips the bars of a real railing. Down on the pavement, a little mouse is on the other side. The cat does not look pleased with this arrangement.

💡 Artist Fact: David Zinn spent more than 20 years as a freelance commercial artist before a box of sidewalk chalk set him on street drawing. His own biography says he improvises each piece on location with chalk, charcoal and found objects.

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🙃 An Upside-Down Hello — By Nego in Guardo, Spain 🇪🇸

Golden curtains part around an upside-down girl, her hand reaching toward the street. The purple slippers are still neatly together beside her.

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👀 Baby Yoda Under the Bridge — By Sock Wild Sketch in France 🇫🇷

Baby Yoda peers over his oversized collar from a curved bridge support.

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🍃 Green Eyes in the Leaves — By Akelo in Paris, France 🇫🇷

Bright green eyes look out between leaves drawn like lace. Akelo leaves the face mostly gray, so those two small patches of color find you first.

📷 Photo: jeanaej75.

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🎬 Chaplin and the Kid — By JR in Paris, France 🇫🇷

Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan lean around the edge of a tall brick wall. The pasting was unveiled in March 2021 in an inner courtyard of the MK2 Hotel Paradiso in the 12th arrondissement, where it is seen from the hotel’s terrace and rooms.

💡 Film Fact: JR’s 2021 Unframed project brought this scene from The Kid (1921) to Paris for the film’s 100th anniversary.

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