peculiar object

Then they saw a peculiar object jutting out of the ground.

Here, it’s a very peculiar object, too.

A virus is a peculiar object that is inert and arguably not truly alive outside a host.

In 2015, around the time the survey was winding down, Wright heard about a peculiar object that another astronomer, Tabetha Boyajian, was investigating.

He turned away from the window and his gaze fell upon another peculiar object standing upon the cluttered, curved sideboard: a stone bust of a beautiful but austere-looking witch wearing a most bizarre-looking headdress.