Visitors take photos of a giant cutout of Donald Trump in front of the Trump House owned by Lisa Rossi in Youngstown, Pa. on Nov. 8, 2016.Gene J. Puskar—AP
Election day in America brings out a perfect storm of strange settings, and situations. Dressed in politically charged outfits, people descend on the polls crammed in odd settings from pools to pool halls. Voters dress up their kids, their pets, and even their houses. They idolize their chosen candidates on cupcakes and tombstones, and brutalize effigies of their opponents with tigers.
It is a day when history is guaranteed to be made, not only in this country but all around the world – mock polling booths were set up from Kenya to Egypt, and people everywhere came out to watch the results.
TIME’s Photo Editors select the strangest election day photos.
Visitors take photos of a giant cutout of Donald Trump in front of the Trump House owned by Lisa Rossi in Youngstown, Pa. on Nov. 8, 2016. Gene J. Puskar—APPeople visit the grave of women's suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony at Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York.Adam Fenster—ReutersA cake in the likeness of Donald Trump at Donald Trump's election night event at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York.Timothy A. Clary—AFP/Getty ImagesRonique Slack exits a polling booth after casting her vote on Election Day at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Charter School in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans.Gerald Herbert—APHillary Clinton points to members of the crowd during a campaign event at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Mich. on Nov. 7, 2016. Doug Mills—The New York Times/ReduxCookies on sale at the Oakmont Bakery in Oakmont, Pa.Jeff Swensen—Getty ImagesA voter casts his ballot inside the garage of Chobert Decorators in Philadelphia.Charles Mostoller—ReutersDutch minster of culture Jet Bussemaker dressed as Hillary Clinton at the President's Night in Amsterdam.Olaf Kraak—EPAPresidential candidates on a TV screen during a Nicaraguan newscast surrounded by toys and puppets at a market in Managua, Nicaragua, Esteban Felix—APDonald Trump and his wife Melania vote at PS 59 school in New York City.Carlo Allegri—ReutersHillary Clinton supporter Jorge Mendez of Glendale, Arizona wears a dress and Hillary Clinton mask while holding a makeshift doll of Donald Trump after voting in Phoenix.Ralph Freso—Getty ImagesA young boy dresses as Donald Trump on election day in Manchester, UK.Alamy—Howard HarrisonAn anti-Clinton supporter holds a Clinton doll hanged on a noose out of his car as he drives by the Emma Loum Olson Civic Center in Pompano Beach, Fla. Joe Cavaretta±Sun Sentinel/TNS/Sipa USAComedians stage a mock election in the village of Kogelo, the home town of Sarah Obama, step-grandmother of President Barack Obama, in western Kenya, APA woman exits a polling station after voting in Newport, New Jersey. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez—AFP/Getty ImagesFelix the polar bear and Yunona the Amur tigress at the Royev Ruchei Zoo in Krasnoayrsk predicted the results of the election on Nov. 7, 2106.Sputnik via APSigns line a traffic circle in North Manchester, New Hampshire.Darren McCollester—Getty ImagesDavid Delacruz votes as his dog Bozco waits at City Hall in San Francisco, Jeff Chiu—AP
