Saint George Slays Atomic Dragon

New York, New York

In 1990, for the 45th anniversary of the U.N., the USSR unveiled a sculpture in U.N. Headquarters courtyard named "Good vs. Evil." It's a larger-than-life Saint George astride a horse, spearing a two-headed dragon with a cross-pommeled lance. The dragon is made of junk metal: half of a U.S. Pershing-2 nuclear missile and half of a Soviet SS-20 nuclear missile, which were both banned by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty of 1987.

For the sculpture's first few years, visitors were able to pose next to the prostrate dragons, but since 9/11 the U.N. courtyard has been locked behind a gate.