Oddities can often be found in the most unexpected places, and Bayport, a hamlet on the South Shore of Suffolk County, is no exception. This little town boasts its own sphinx on the south side of Route 27A in front of the Fontana Cement Company. The bug-eyed, fish-lipped cement figure has guarded this patch of land since 1974, since its removal from the Anchorage Inn in nearby South Shore town Blue Point.

Ye Anchorage Inn was founded by Irishman Captain Will Graham in 1897, less than a decade after his immigration here in 1888. As a past sculptor and marble worker, he created this bemused-looking rendition of an Egyptian sphinx as a draw to his business venture, the inn.

The sphinx's base was designed to be functional, hollow to allow for its usage as a hen house.

The Inn itself burned down in 1928, a year after the death of Captain Graham's wife and eight years after his own demise from pneumonia. Ruins of the inn he died at still remain, as does his famous sphinx, which promises that "She who climbs the Sphinx's head, a millionaire will surely wed."