There is a gargoyle of Darth Vader on the Washington National Cathedral. Well, actually, it technically is a grotesque, not a gargoyle. While both gargoyles and grotesques are monstrous beings found on top of fancy buildings, a gargoyle either acts as a drainpipe or contains a drainpipe to expedite the removal of water from a building, while a grotesque is merely used as an obstacle to the water so that its flow is diverted (perhaps to a nearby gargoyle). This particular Dark Lord of the Sith is not a drainpipe.
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