Forever Marilyn

For almost a year until May 2012, Marilyn Monroe's pose from the 1955 film 'The Seven Year Itch' was a central attraction in downtown Chicago 's Magnificent Mile.

Since then this 26 feet 'Forever Marilyn' statue has graced Hollywood's very own Palm Springs, arriving just in time for her would have been 85th birthday.

Towards the end of 2013, this 34,000 pound statue will journey all the way back east to New Jersey, hometown of its designer Seward Johnson.

It is an interesting anecdote that Johnson is the grandson of Robert Wood Johnson co-founder of the well known multinational 'Johnson & Johnson',  and worked there until he was fired by his uncle.