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 | The Corn Palace is a multi-purpose arena/facility located in Mitchell, South Dakota. It is a popular tourist destination, visited by over 500,000 people each year. It consists of a building that is decorated with murals and designs made from corn and other grains.
http://www.roadsidephotos.com/sd/sd3.htm |  | 03/27/2007 | 239 | 
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 | The Peachoid is the name of a very large water tower in Gaffney, South Carolina, that resembles a peach. The water tower holds one million gallons of water and is located on Interstate 85 between exits 90 & 92 (near The Cherokee Foothills National Scenic Highway). An example of folly architecture, the Peachoid is one of the most recognizable landmarks on the part of I-85 connecting Charlott... |  | 03/27/2007 | 333 |
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 | The Big Chicken is a local landmark in Marietta, Georgia, built at the city's biggest intersection of Cobb Parkway (US 41) and Roswell Road (S. R. 120) - - exact address 12 Cobb Pkwy N, Marietta GA 30062.
In 1963, Johnny Reb's Chick, Chuck and Shake owner S.R. "Tubby" Davis erected the 56-foot (17-meter) tall structure over his restaurant as a method of advertising. It ... |  | 03/27/2007 | 477 |
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 | The Big Nickel is a nine-metre (30-foot) replica of a 1951 Canadian nickel, located at the grounds of Dynamic Earth in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. It is listed in the Guinness Book of Records, as the world's largest coin.
The nickel was originally proposed by Sudbury businessman Ted Szilva in the early 1960s as a project to mark the upcoming Canadian centennial. The Canadia... |  | 03/26/2007 | 470 |
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 | The Big Pineapple is a tourist attraction and working farm situated at Woombye near Nambour, Queensland. There are rides, tours of pineapple plantations and other agricultural products, shops, restaurants and exhibits for visitors to enjoy.
The Big Pineapple is 16 metres high and was originally opened in 1971. Entry is free. The attraction went on the market in June 2005.
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 | The Golden Guitar is a one of the many "big" attractions that can be found around Australia. Located in Tamworth, New South Wales, this monument is one of the best-known points of interest in Western NSW.
The Golden Guitar was erected in front of the famous Longyard Hotel on the Sydney Road in 1988. It was unveiled by Australia's most popular country music artist, Slim ... | | 03/26/2007 | 273 |
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 | A humongous baseball bat in Edmonton, Canada. | | 03/26/2007 | 194 |
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 | Here's the elusive Great Wall in 3D | | 03/24/2007 | 1,382 |
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 | A plane shaped junglegym |  | 03/15/2007 | 218 |
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 | St Hilary transmitter
A 745 ft/ 227.1 m TV transmitter located near Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales
Built in 1957. | | 03/08/2007 | 196 |
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 | This worldmap in Lake Klejtrup was created 1944 to 1969 by a danish-american, Soeren Poulsen.
1943 he came back to this place where he was born and he found a piece of rock that looked like Jutland peninsula and after this find he wanted to create this world map.
Facts about the map:
• The Map measures 45 metres by 90 (49 yards by 98).
• One 111-kilometer (6... | | 03/03/2007 | 694 |
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 | This is a giant white seal lying on a blue tarpaulin in the garden of a house in Den Haag. I think its the same seal that we can see at the "The Hague Plein", lying also on a blue tarpaulin. The resolution is great, you can see the eyes and the nose in GE.
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 | This quator-monumentis located in Pichincha, Ecuador. Notice the deviation to the equator and the northpole.
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 | A gas station with the shape of a big dinosaur. | | 02/20/2007 | 208 |
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 | When you enter Paso Robles Wine Area from the east at the crossing of hwy 41 and 46 you see this fountain with grapes at the top and wine glasses at the bottom of the fountain. It contains purple water like red wine. | | 02/14/2007 | 169 |
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 | al-khiran pearl city project @ Arabien Gulf / Kuwait |  | 02/05/2007 | 642 |
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 | A metal sculputure of a deer browsing on a tree branch. The sculpture stands about 50 feet tall in the middle of a farmer's field near Manorville, New York. | | 01/27/2007 | 190 |
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 | The first way builted to climb from the sea to hinterland in Brasil,in 1790. | | 01/27/2007 | 206 |
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 | At 456 metres (1498 feet) above sea level, Winter Hill is the highest point of the area to the west of the Pennines, a line of hills, known as the backbone of England, running roughly north - south between Lancashire and Yorkshire. The highest point within Bolton Borough is on Smithills Moor, south of the top of Winter Hill, at 1467 feet above sea level. Winter Hill television transmitter was b... | | 01/15/2007 | 176 |
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 | A golden statue in Munich/Riem. It shows a naked man standing there. You can clearly see the shadow. | | 01/11/2007 | 259 |
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 | While living in that city I saw it live. Its about 6 or 7 meters high.... | | 01/09/2007 | 472 |
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 | The acropolis is in fact an unfinished monument - originally called the "National Monument". Initiated in 1816, a year after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, it was meant to be a replica of the Parthenon in Athens, as a memorial to those who had died in the Napoleonic Wars.
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 | Built to commemorate the life of the novelist, Sir Walter Scott the monument was finished on 15th August 1846.
The Scott Monument is 200 ft. 6in high and 55ft. square at the base; the highest gallery is reached by climbing a total of 287 steps.
It has been described as a Gothic Rocket, you can get an impression of this from the shadow.
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 | The Neutrality Arch, erected by megalomaniac dicator of Turkmenistan (deceased of the 21st of December) Saparmurat Niyazov, is topped with a gold plated statue of himself that rotates so it always faces the sun. This guy renamed January after himself, but his city looks very nice from the sky. | | 12/24/2006 | 428 |
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 | Marble Arch is a white Carrara marble monument.Only members of the royal family and the King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery are allowed to pass through the arch.
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