(Travis Meier/The Washington Post) 4 min A spear ... another barrier includes rusty metal wire: tetanus lying in wait. What do these menacing impediments protect? Empty parking lots.

Washington Post photo by John Kelly Zev Zalman "Z.Z ... Z.Z. is a former heavy metal bass player -- seen in the cult film "Heavy Metal Parking Lot" -- who embraced Hasidic Judaism in 2006.

Most drivers roar right by the red and white signs on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, but Pat Veesart slows down and calls them out one by one. “Almost guaranteed it’s not a legitimate sign ...

ST. LOUIS — Steel in the parking garage on Sixth Street downtown is rusting. Metal beams are mounted floor-to-ceiling to support some floors. Sign posts warn drivers not to park in certain areas.

Heavy Metal Parking Lot was only 16 and a half minutes long, and the concept was bare-bones: just fans and staff outside the Capital Centre arena in Largo, Md., before a concert by two metal bands ...

Photos attached to the post show large metal columns jutting out of the water along the Brown Street parking lot seawall, like jagged teeth in the maw of a sea monster. Some joked the work is for ...