One single human might not be capable of that much on his or her own, but when we come together we can create things of truly inconceivable scale.
These 23 massive buildings and megastructures are hard to wrap your head around, but we've built them none the less. With people, windows, boats and more for scale, check out these truly monstrous constructions.
1
Lisboa Hotel from the streets of Macau.
2
The world’s largest indoor ferris wheel in Turkmenistan.
3
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque from 200ft above.
4
Chungus oil rig structure getting moved around.
5
Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea, a massive structure overlooking the poorly built apartment complexes of Pyongyang.
6
The Mecca Royal Clock Tower Hotel. By some measures the 3rd largest building in the world.
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Inside an LNG cargo tanker.
9
The Gothic facade of the massive Strasbourg Cathedral.
10
Inside the Saturn V Rocket Engine.
11
Statue of Unity in India. The biggest statue in the world at present.
12
Mitsubishi cement plant, Kyushu, Japan.
13
Windowless skyscraper in New York City.
14
The largest of Vienna's massive abandoned WW2 Flak Towers.
15
Hong Kong apartment megacomplex.
16
The Egyptian Octagon as seen from a plane.
17
The Palace of the Parliament in Romania, heaviest building ever built.
18
The Empire State Building after its completion in the 1930s, as seen from New Jersey.
19
Ponte City Apartments in Johannesburg, South Africa. The tallest residential building on the African continent.
20
The Troll A, the largest structure ever moved by man, sits 200 km off the coast of Norway. You can only see half its height.
21
Inside one of the hollow legs of the Troll A Oil Platform.
22
Yick Cheong building in Hong Kong.
23
Chand Baori step well in India.
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“Duga was a Soviet over-the-horizon (OTH) radar system used as part of the Soviet anti-ballistic missile early-warning network.”
