Colossal Arachnids Menace the Space Needle

Scaredy-cats who find the nerve to ascend the sky-probing Space Needle are in for an unpleasant surprise. Looking down, they'll find that Seattle's signature monument is under attack by arachnids big enough to gobble up the Seahawks' defensive line like a pack of blood-filled Skittles.

The instinctual reaction to these twin monstrosities, which appear to scurry across a roof on appendages thick as young redwoods, is to want to drop a grand piano on them from the Needle's viewing deck. But have no fear, arachnophobes: The worst the mammoth creepy-crawlies can do is serve as America's freakiest scarecrows. (Who's hunting who now, birds!) They're made of paint and a ton of craftsmanship, the product of several weeks of intensive labor by science-artist Marlin Peterson.