When news went round last year that a house in Swansea looked like Hitler, there were many people who doubted it – until they saw the photograph. After that it was found that any number of cats, and even a goldfish, looked like the unlamented Führer. So the idea that a church might accidentally look like a chicken could not be ruled out a priori. Yet it still seemed unlikely until photographic evidence was provided: the Church by the Sea at Tampa, Florida, not only resembles a chicken, but a chicken with attitude.