World's Tallest

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.

This highest bridge in the world spans such a great chasm that it had to be established using rockets.

This towering totem holds the title for the tallest in the world but only according to some.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

The largest statue in the world towers at 420 feet high atop another 66 feet of pedestal.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

Erroneously called the world's tallest flagpole, this landmark is devoted to "good neighborliness."

One of the tallest buildings in Africa provides a great view of Johannesburg's unique geography.

The tallest stationary dunes on Earth also happen to sing.

The world's tallest slum.

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