the world is full of things from this teddy bear to the thing
but not all things are equal this thing is clearly better than this one
and just as not all things are equal in value they are not equal in height science has proven
that some things are taller than others making use of innovative new technology like the tape measure
only thanks to this pioneering scientific research am I able to make this video
believe it or not this is not a giant monster made of stone it's actually the tallest statue in the
world known as the statue of unity it was cast in the image of India's first deputy prime minister
a man whose name i can't pronounce rising 790 feet tall it is nearly 300 feet taller than the
next tallest statue which explains why it took five years and more than 400 million dollars to
complete in recent years Asia has seen something of a competition to build the world's tallest
statue of the 20 tallest statues in the world 19 are in Asia in second place is a Chinese statue
but that will soon be overtaken by a new Indian one under construction
two years ago a bizarre structure was unveiled in the city of Dubai and nearly 500 feet it is
the biggest picture frame in the world coated in glass and aluminum it's an incredibly shiny site
and lights up at night you're probably wondering why they would build such a big frame
and to be honest so am i it was selected as part of an architecture competition one that received
900 proposals and apparently none of them were any good because the winner was a giant frame
in the German town of bins was recently built for world's tallest sandcastle
built by an international team of 12 sculptors it was just shy of 58 feet tall
beating the previous record of 54.5 which for some reason was also in Germany it was
built entirely from sand and water with no internal structure at all so it took 11
000 tons of sand and careful sculpting for it not to collapse
the amount of work it must have taken is admirable but at the same time i would love to destroy it
the world's tallest chicken is a lot bigger than you might think abandoned for decades it stands in
the middle of the Indonesian jungle it was built to be a church in the hope that would help spread
Christianity in Asia but before its completion the man behind it ran out of money and was forced
to just give up he had already spent a decade building by that point and much of the church was
finished since the year 2000 the chicken church has simply been left to fall apart originally the
building was meant to be a dove but I guess it's easier to make a chicken church than a dove one
crossing a deep valley in southern France this is the tallest bridge in the world reaching a height
of 1100 feet it's more than three times taller than the statue of liberty it's also 8 000 feet
long and its construction required new technology to be developed resulting in a cost of 390 million
euros but despite the cost and scale of a bridge it is only expected to survive around 120 years
this is the world's tallest outdoor elevator scaling a Chinese cliff edge it's thousand
and seventy feet high it serves mainly as a tourist attraction giving a unique view of
sandstone rock formations nearby but because of its sheer size the elevator has long been
plagued by safety concerns such concerns are partly due to the high speed of ascendancy
it takes just 92 seconds to reach the top a climber by foot would take over an hour
for a while now dictatorships have been competing to build the world's tallest flagpole first there
was the 323 foot flagpole of Kijong-dong in North Korea then the 436-foot flagpole of Turkmenistan
after that Azerbaijan erected a 531-foot pole just one year later a 10-foot taller
flagpole was unveiled in Tajikistan for three years it reigned as the tallest in the world
then in 2014 Saudi Arabia built the Jeddah flagpole standing 561 feet
it was built with 500 tons of steel and still now is the tallest on earth
this is the world's tallest dam there really isn't much to say about it
it's just a huge dam in china which is the land of huge dams
a thousand and one feet tall plants for the dam were actually made in the 1960s
but only in 2005 did construction begin it's so big it diverted a major river causing thousands
of locals to relocate as well as this the world's third and fourth tallest dams are also in china
for a long time the tallest structure ever built was a radio mast built in 1974 the
Warsaw radio mast was 2120 feet high it was so big radio signals were able to be sent and
received almost anywhere on earth but because of its immense height it would collapse in 1991
while one of its support wires was being changed a sudden gust of wind blew it over like in a cartoon
no one even knows how heavy the mast was it's estimated to have been 900 000 pounds until
2009 no other structure would surpass it in height today the world's tallest radio mast is
in North Dakota built in 1963 it was the world's tallest structure until the Warsaw mast was built
built have a cost of 1.5 billion dollars this is the world's tallest building it rises 2 700 feet
into the Dubai skyline and has become an icon of the city known as Burj Khalifa it also holds
several other records like the world's highest restaurant due to its size the building has 57
elevators and nearly 3 000 stairs the plumbing system alone consists of 215 miles of piping
and the air conditioning gives the equivalent of 12 million kilograms of melting ice each day
being too dangerous for humans the upper segment of a tower has its windows cleaned by machines
of which the building has 24 000 windows which take three months to fully clean most surprising
is that the main contractor for the construction was Samsung and i had no idea they make buildings