"This heat is relentless," Doran declared. "A wax sculpture of Abraham Lincoln in northwest DC has melted so much, it's almost lost its head." Newsweek further reports that this isn't the first ...

Then the wax is melted in an oven, leaving the ceramic form which is filled with molten bronze. Employee Nate Scheil welds a cast bronze sculpture at Brodin Bronze near Kimball, Minn.