  We review the observed morphological, photometric, and kinematic properties
of boxy/peanut (B/P) shape bulges. Nearly half of the bulges in the nearby
edge-on galaxies have these characteristics, which fraction is similar to the
observed bar fraction in Hubble types earlier than Scd. B/P bulges are
generally detected in the edge-on view, but it has been recently demonstrated
that barlenses, which are lens-like structures embedded in bars, are the more
face-on counterparts of the B/P bulges. Multi-component structural
decompositions have shown that B/P/barlens structures are likely to account for
most of the bulge light, including the early-type disks harboring most of the
bulge mass in galaxies. Cool central disks are often embedded in the
B/P/barlens bulges. Barred galaxies contain also dynamically hot classical
bulges, but it is not yet clear to what extent they are really dynamically
distinct structure components, and to what extent stars wrapped into the
central regions of the galaxies during the formation and evolution of bars. If
most of the bulge mass in the Milky Way mass galaxies in the nearby universe
in- deed resides in the B/P-shape bulges, and not in the classical bulges, that
idea needs to be integrated into the paradigm of galaxy formation.
