staring contest?

Here are a few fun photos of some huge statues/busts that are on the pillars of the walls round the grounds of some of the museums.

I just thought the staring faces were awesome. Almost as if they all saw something like Medusa and their terror was frozen on their face. I think the teeth and lips are pretty strange. This is 2 views of one and 1 view of another one. But it is all I had time to take photos of because my husband was already on the way to the Bodleian.

Even the "lady" in the background seems to have a silent scream!
It just strikes my funnybone. How about you?