Eight caryatids, sculpted female figures that serve as architectural supports, stand outside St Pancras Church. But a measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

This bizarre beast looks like it could both pounce on its prey with a cat-like prowess or thwack it on the head with its flat tail. The beaver-tiger hybrid known as the babr was the result of a spelling mistake, and has become the symbol of the Siberian town of Irkutsk.

The Library of Mistakes contains over 2,000 books, all relating to economics and finance and gathered into one place in the hopes of avoiding another Great Recession.

At this museum, you can see the skeleton of one of the most uniquely-named horses in history: Potoooooooo. According to the lore, the horse's owner planned to name the foal Potatoes. But the stablehand thought his boss said “Pot-eight-O’s” and spelled the name accordingly.

Built in 1765, the oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

Most of the murals in Lake Placid, Florida, have some sort of intentional fault in them. It started as one artist’s actual mistake, then became a theme across all of the town’s murals.

In 1902, a business was born out of a blunder, which led to a series of profitable mistakes, including the Post-it note. It all began in this former law office, where the original 3M partners signed paperwork for a small mining interest that would grow into an enormous multinational corporation.

The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west, which is how it earned the nickname "Wrong Way Cemetery."