World's Largest Filing Cabinet | Crazy Fountain - The Crown Fountain, Chicago | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 20 | Weird Houses Around the World - 11 | Can You Recognise This # 10 | Yoido Full Gospel Church, Seoul | Maranjab Caravanserai, Isfahan Province, Iran | Strokes of Nature - White Snake | Swallow's Nest | The Headington Shark - Which Survived Attack | Amazing Sigriya Lion Rock Fortress | Bridge to Nowhere, Atlantic Road, Norway | Amazingly Balanced Rocks -25 Giant Mushroom Rock, Saudi Arabia | Pant-y-Goitre Bridge - A Bridge With Holes | World's Largest Quarried Stones | World's Largest Stone Dome - Global Pagoda, Mumbai | Plane atop 77 Water Street, NYC | Hoba Meteorite - World's Largest Meteorite (in single piece) | From Abandoned House to Doll House - Converting Unsightly to Showpiece | ING House - Another Huge Building on Stilts | Luxor Pyramid, Las Vegas - Largest Pyramid of Modern World | Small Place With Big Name | World's Largest Bas-Relief Sculptures | Maman - The Mother Spider Around the World | Goat Towers Around The World | For the Bibliophiles - Book Shaped Fountains | World's Largest Teapot | World's Biggest Rocking Horse | Lena Pillars - World's Remotest Natural Wonders | Sanyo Solar Ark - A Solar Power Plant Built From Rejects | World's Largest Aircraft - Antonov AN-225 | The Silent People of Finland | Kosinj Bridge - A Bridge With Holes | Unique Building - Built Over Two Bridges | Cosmovitral - A Beautiful Stained Glasshouse Garden | More "Bridges with Holes" | World's Largest Dinosaur | Book Shaped Buildings | World's Biggest Cuckoo Clocks | Sunny Side Up in La Paz | World’s Largest Paddle | Trojan Horses of Denmark | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 7 | Which is the World's Largest Church? | Pietermaritzburg Station - Start Of Gandhi's Fight Against Discrimination | A Spanish Mosque in India | Microsoft - Birthplace | Ancient Karla and Bhaja Buddhist Caves of India | HABOG - Nuclear Waste Management in An Artistic Way | Monasteries on the Rocks - Meteora, Greece | Can You Recognise This # 14 | Coconut Crab - The Largest Land Arthropod in the World | One O'clock Gun, Edinburgh | Spectacular Painted Hills of Oregon | Vertical Green Garden of Madrid | Even More Giant Hands Around The World | Tower which is leaner than the Leaning Tower of Pisa | Oldest Olympic Rings and Olympic Flame Tower | Slauerhoff Bridge - A Giant Flying Kite | Northumberlandia - World’s Largest Human Shaped Land Art (Under Construction) | Noorderlicht - World's Only Ice-Bound Ship-Hotel | World's Most Expensive Island | World's Littlest Skyscraper | Hazarduari - Palace With 1000 Doors | World's Largest Burr (Burl) | Tallest Statue in the World - Spring Temple Buddha | World's Largest Chessboard | World's Largest Tyre | Magdeburg Water Bridge - World's Largest Navigable Aqueduct | Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge | Apple - Birthplace | Why I switched from White to Black Background | 1000 Islands - St. Lawrence River | Humayun's Tomb, Delhi, India | World's Largest Bulldozer | Floating Swimming Pool - Badeschiff | Can You Recognise This # 25 | Clingstone House - A Remarkable House on A Rock | Can You Recognise This # 2 | Intricate Stepwell Near Jaipur | Hopewell Rocks - Flower Pots of Nature | Swarovski's Crystal Worlds | Equatorial Monuments Around the World | World's Largest Thermometer | Giant Coin Shaped Building | A Lake Named Pi (3.1416) | Bridge to Nowhere | World's Biggest Cashew Tree | The Montmorency Falls, Quebec, Canada | Ennedi Plateau - Sahara’s Secret Garden | World's Largest Collection of Old Windmills | Water Tank House | Beautiful Blue Mosque of St. Petersburg | Guitar Shaped Buildings | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 19 | Oil Lake on Fire | Oak Trees atop Tower of Guinigis, Lucca, Italy | Strange Landscape | Weird Houses Around the World | World's Largest Monopoly Board | Colourful Domes | World's Biggest Inverted Pyramid Building | Waldspirale (Forest Spiral), Darmstadt | Can You Recognise This # 18 | World's Largest Speaking Horn | Sphere Within A Sphere | Almost Perfect Cone - Mt. Taranaki | Giant Anamorphic Red Flower, Nanning Gateway, China | Water Melon House | Oldest Cherry Blossom Trees in The World | Grand Peterhof Palace - The Russian Versailles | Giant Hydra Headed Dragon Clock | Can You Recognise This # 20 | Amazing Volcano House - Living on Top of A Volcano | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 1 | Giraffe Through The Roof | Piano and Violin Shaped Building | Unique Temple of Rats - Karni Mata Temple | Giant Crocodile Shaped Hotel | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 11 | Spoonbridge and Cherry - Minneapolis Sculpture Garden | Musical Wall of Dresden | Beautiful Lagoons Amidst Sand Dunes | Seven-Coloured Earth of Chamarel, Mauritius | Which is the World's Highest Peak? | Stunningly Colourful Rocks of Zhangye Danxia Landform | Spiral Shaped Church - The Temple, Independence, USA | Worlds Largest Spherical Dome - Ericsson Globe | Ice which is not ice - Pamukkale, Turkey | Vulcano Buono - The Good Volcano | Cat Who Walks Through Walls | World's Largest Mosaic | Bourn Windmill - England's Oldest Windmill | Unusual Pyramid Mosque | Magnificent Bridge of Glass, Tacoma | Lemon Festival, Menton, France | World's Most Isolated Lighthouse: Thridrangar Lighthouse | Colourful Evaporation Ponds - South Bay, San Francisco | World's Highest Climbing Wall (Tower) | Big Temple of Thanjavur - Casts No Shadows | Goats On The Roof | Unique Saturn Shaped Building - Lucknow Planetarium | Butterfly Bridge - A Unique Tri-Bridge in Copenhagen | A House For Bibliophiles | Tent Shaped Church With Needle Tower | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 2 | Happy Rizzi House | House Boats of Kerala, India | World's Tallest Minaret - Hassan II Mosque | World's Tallest and Largest Equestrian Statue | Charybdis - An Amazing Water Vortex Sculpture | Sacra Cintola (Holy Belt) of the Virgin Mary, Prato Cathedral | Amazing Temple Built From Million Beer Bottles | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 10 | Beautiful Salt Pans, Tegguiada-In-Tessoum, Niger | Quadripoints of the World | World's Thickest Tree - Arbol del Tule | Twin Hearts of Stones | World's Tallest Inclined Tower - The Montreal Olympic Tower | Weird Houses Around the World - 2 | Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, Utah | Remarkable Pine Tree Which Survived The Great Japanese Tsunami | World's Largest Titanic Museum, Branson, USA | The Kelpies - Scotland's Largest Art Installation | Amazing Golf Ball House | Arctic Circle Monuments & Markers Around The World | Weird Houses Around the World - 6 | Can You Recognise This # 9 | Strokes of Nature - Redhead on Google Earth | Khichan - Best Place in India to see Demoiselle Crane | Shot Tower, Clifton Hill, Yarra City, Australia | The Raclawice Panorama - One of World's Largest Circular Panoramic Paintings | A Giant Sized Welcome in the City of Giants | Rock of Guatapé | Magnificent Avenue of Baobabs, Madagascar | Vasehenge - A Large Circle of Vases | World's Northern Most Mosque | Swimming Over The Sidewalk | Razzle Dazzle Ship of Arnhem | Bridge in Mona Lisa | World's Most Expensive - Billion Dollar Home | World's Largest Mud-brick Building | Best Place to see Tigers - Bandhavgarh, India | Bridge With A Flying Saucer | Temple Made of Sea-Shells | One World Many Stories | Weird Houses Around the World - 7 | Huge 4 km Long Word | World's Largest Rice Scoop | Catatumbo - Where Lightning Strikes Almost Whole Year Round | Northumberlandia - World’s Largest Human Shaped Land Art | Equatorial Monuments Around the World | Oldest Wooden House in the World | Giant Wall Sockets | Mysterious Zigzag Lines and Concentric Circles in China | Can You Recognise This # 11 | Bloemencorso Bollenstreek - A Dutch Flower Parade | Huge Chalk Lion, Whipsnade, England | Fountain Which is A Digital Clock | Amazing Volkswagen Storage Silos, Wolfsburg, Germany | Strokes of Nature - "Autumn Trees" | Amazing See Through Church Of Borgloon | Knockan Crag, Scotland - Where Continents Collided | World's Largest Automatic Bike Parking Lot | Yellowknife, Northwest Territories - Best Place To See Northern Lights | World's Tallest Memorial Cross | Awesome Fire Breathing Dragon Bridge | Can You Recognise This # 8 | Seahenge - A Remarkable Prehistoric Wooden Circle | World's Largest Terrestrial Vehicle | Weird Houses Around the World - 9 | Fyrish Monument - A Monument Built To Give Employment | World's Largest Grid Clock | World's Largest Poster | A Modern Bridge Designed by Leonardo da Vinci | Remarkable Rocks' Australia are Truly Remarkable | Giant Hands Around The World (57 New Additions) | Prebischtor - Largest Natural Stone Bridge in Europe | A colourful Hotel Complex - Marques de Riscal | New Year and First Anniversary | Man who single-handedly built his own palace | Giant Rock Painting of Buddha, Lashaosi, China | 4-Way Bridges Around The World | Nikola-Lenivets - Small City With Big Art | Korean War Memorial - World's Largest War Monument | Poor Man's Taj Mahal, Aurangabad, India | Gateway Arch - Highest Monument in USA | Weird Houses Around the World - 3 | The Windmills of Don Quixote | Amazing New Bridge (Puente Nuevo) Which Is Not New | Weird Houses Around the World - 15 | Weird Houses Around the World - 19 | Castle which is not a Castle | Hitler's Grandiose Plan for Berlin | World's Largest Baseball Bat | Rundle Lantern - Huge Dynamic Digital Art, Adelaide | The Rundetarn (Round Tower), Copenhagen, Denmark | Magnificent Mosaic Rug Carpet On Rudolf Nureyev's Grave | 29 More Giant Hands Around The World | Can You Recognise This # 16 | Vijversburg Estate Tri-Bridge | First IBM-PC - Birthplace | World's Largest Foosball Table | World's Loneliest House | Zhivopisny Bridge - A Picturesque Red Bridge With Spider's Sac | A Monument to Enema | Unsolved Mystery of Crooked Trees | World's Largest Flower - Floralis Generica | Rocks on the Move | Selfridges, Birmingham - A Building Adorned With Sequins | Stone House at Fafe | World's Narrowest Bridge - Nutty Narrows Bridge | Weird Houses Around the World - 16 | Quaint Little House Over A Bridge | World' Tallest Clock Tower / World's Biggest Clock | 3.2 km long Slogan, Chile | Louisa/Fort Gay Tri-Bridge | Can You Recognise This # 22 | Island made famous by Google Earth | Riding the Lion's Back | Giant Hands, Duke Town, Calabar, Nigeria | Cinque Terre - Five Colourful Villages on Italian Coast | Tower of Dreams and Desires | World's Largest Mirror Ball | 5Pointz Aerosol Art Center - Mecca of Graffiti Art | The Trojan Horse of Troy is in Turkey! | Can You Recognise This # 15 | The Living Chess Game at Marostica, Italy | Can You Recognise This # 26 | World's Largest Tent - Khan Shatyr | The Horse(s) of Leonardo da Vinci | Periplaneta Americana Invades Havana | Airstream Ranch - Art or Junk | Green Building of School of Art, Design and Media, Singapore | Beach House on A Pole | Weird Houses Around the World - 1 | Magical Floating Water Taps | Flying Saucer Shaped Church | As Syakirin Mosque - A Modern Mosque Without A Minaret | Can You Recognise This # 13 | Tri-Bridges Around The World - Collection [Updated] | Man Shaped Lake, Brazil | Rainbow Swash - World's Largest Copyrighted Work of Art | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 6 | Ennedi Plateau - Sahara’s Secret Garden - Revisited | Amazing Volcanic Vineyards of La Geria | Not A Mosque | 1:500 model of Aksai Chin area | Amazing Turf Houses of Iceland | WYSIWYG and GUI - Birthplace | Strokes of Nature - Colours of Desert | Beautiful But Cursed Island Of Gaiola | House on A Pole | Squaw Creek - Stopover point for million of Snow Geese | Can You Recognise This # 5 | World's Largest Spinning Top | Giant Hands Around The World - May 2024 Update | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 3. | The Square Head Building - An Amazing Habitable Sculpture | Erawan Museum - World’s Largest Zoomorphic Building | Habitat '67 - World's First Modular Pre-fab Housing Complex | Amazing Hen Shaped Church | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 29 (Hanging Stone, Ergaki National Park, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia) | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 28 | Can You Recognise This? | Magere Brug (The Skinny Bridge), Amsterdam | Diamondback Bridge - Walking in the Belly of Rattlesnake | The House In The Sea | Widest Non-Clonal Tree in The World | Expressway through A Building - Gate Tower, Osaka | Hollywood Walk of Fame is 50 Years Old | Amazing Floating Islands of Loktak Lake, Manipur, India | Container Buildings at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London | Tri-Bridges Around the World | Colmar Tropicale - A French Themed Resort in Malaysia | Fantastic Voyage Through Human Body - CORPUS Centre | Shivering Sands Army Fort - Mini Defence Towers | Giant Plug and Socket | World's Largest Granite Soup Bowl | World's Largest Solar Powered Stadium | Bridge of Vases | Merry Cemetery of Sapanta, Romania | Chocolate Hills, Philippines | Magnificent Stained Glass Winter Garden, Ursuline Institute, Belgium | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 5 | Can You Recognise This # 23 | Church Carved out of Single Block of Rock | Bibliotheca Alexandrina - The New Library of Alexandria | Palace on the Rocks | Coober Pedy - The Underground Town | World's Tallest Chimney With Spiral Staircase | A Town Made Famous by Star Trek - Vulcan, Canada | Cano Cristales - World's Most Beautiful River | Amazing Trees Atop Chimneys | Huge Colourful Streamers on the Hills of Tibet | Can You Recognise This # 3 | Breathtaking Trolltunga - The Troll's Tongue in Norway | Cross (Krestovy) Bridge - World's First 4-Way Bridge | Sign Post Forest | "Sulaiman-Too" Sacred Mountain of Kyrgyzstan | Alnwick Treehouse | Purrfectly Adorable: A Cat-Shaped Crèche | Where old planes go to die! | Hanging Coffins, Sagada, Philippines | Crescent Shaped Island | World's Largest Painting | Sleeping Beauty Mural | Giant Hands Around The World | Bar Coded Building | World's Largest Hole in a Lake | Giant Golden Bees Attack World's Tallest Residential Tower | The Cloud Gate, Chicago | World's Largest Drumsticks | Strokes of Nature - Black Dragon | Mausoleum of Tamerlane - A Precursor To Mughal Architecture | Cretto di Gibellina - Memorial To A Town Destroyed by Earthquake | Oldest Hanging Train | Metropolis - The Hometown of Superman | Giant Hands Around The World - Major Additions | Red Crab Migration - Christmas Island | Amazing Cruise Ship Shaped Hotel on Cliff | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 18 | Big Question | Brick Train Locomotive | Beautiful Kalyan Minaret, Bukhara, Uzbekistan | The Wave (Rock), Arizona, USA | Fairy Walking Bridge, Xihai Grand Canyon, China | Unique and Beautiful Crystal Mosque of Malaysia | Painting in Field | Can You Recognise This # 21 | Göbekli Tepe - World's Oldest Excavated Temple | More Giant Hands Around the World | Island of the Dolls - World's Creepiest Collection of Dolls | Unique Circular Footbridge, Aveiro, Portugal | Crazy Tower With Crawling Babies | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 21 | World's Biggest Apple | Kondyor Massif - A Perfectly Circular Geological Formation | Poetic Palindromic Roundabout | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 16 | Amazing Subterranean Cathedral of Wieliczka Salt Mine | Bookshelf Murals Around The World | World's Steepest Funicular Railways | Enchanting Bamboo Forest of Sagano | Nice Chalet at Cascade de Gairaut, Nice | A Small House on The Rock | Wave Rock, Hyden, Australia | Murals of Invergordon | World's Largest Crossword | Giant Millennium Clock, Tianjun, China | World's Largest Hole in a Lake (Revised*) | Gun Shaped Lake | Paragon Prairie Tower - Americas' Largest Glass Mural | World's Northernmost Mainland Lighthouse | Drive-in Ferris Wheel | Quetzalcoatl's Nest - Snake Shaped Housing Complex | Bridge Houses at Bad Kreuznach Germany | Google - Birthplace | World's Longest Tapestry | Amazing Rice Paddy Art | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 17 | Birthplaces of Digital Giants | Gangnam Style Hands, Seoul, Korea | World's Largest Sculpture Park - Changchun | A Giant Egg for the Easter | Heart of Cape Town - Museum of World's First Heart Transplant | Bridge Between Eurasian and American Continents | Beautiful Bamboo Mosque in Rural Malaysia | Can You Recognise This # 7 | A Jumbo 747 Hotel | World's First Swing Aqueduct - Barton Aqueduct | Glengall Bridge - London's Little Drawbridge | Preikestolen (Pulpit Rock), Norway | World's First Hard Disk - Birthplace | Fabulous Four - The Beatles in Topiary | World's Largest Sculpture of Beatles | Tianjin Eye - A giant Ferris wheel on a bridge | Organic Building With Flower Pots On Its Façade | Garstin's Folly - Gol Ghar (Round House), Patna, India | The Floating Church, Settihalli, Hassan, India | Vitoslavlitsy - The Museum of Russian Wooden Architecture | Las Lajas Cathedral - A Cathedral Built in A Gorge | Falkirk Wheel - Only rotating boat lift in the World | The Bridge from London to Arizona | Oldest Wooden House In Europe | Metal Monster or Metal Art? | Yellow Submarine of The Beatles | Pigeon Tower, Isfahan | Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron | Unusual Extra-Terrestrial Landscape Of Yehliu Geo Park | Carhenge - Modern Day Stonehenge | Shibam - World's Oldest Skyscraper City | Shaking Minarets of Sidi Bashir Mosque, Ahmedabad | World's Largest Easter Egg | Snake Building, Berlin | Tree Lockup | Graffiti @ Kelburn Castle | World's Largest Sludge Storage Tank - IJsseloog | Hand Pump Without Handle - A Strange Memorial In London | Giant Hand at NuArt Sculpture Park, Bandung | Roof of Water Reservoir, Mina | Thirteen O'clock | Vining - A Small Town With Big Art | World's Largest Axe | IBM - Birthplace | 'Trim' the Cat of Matthew Flinders | Tsingy - The Amazingly Alien Landscape in Madagascar | Weird Houses Around the World - 17 | Huge Irrigation Circles | Strange UFO Houses Are Gone | Unique Architecture Which Spells INFOSYS | Hiran Minar, Fathehpur Sikri - A Uniquely Studded Tower | Island of the Dead - Venetian Cemetery | Amazing Twin Temples Atop Mountain Spires | World's Tallest Statue of Virgin Mary | World's Largest Wooden Church - Kerimäki Church, Finland | Strokes of Nature - Pink Galaxy | Oldest Wooden Building in the World | Colourful Waste Incineration Plant at Osaka | When Walls Had Ears | Puy du Fou - Historical Theme Park, France | World's Largest Tomb - Daisen Kofun - A Huge Key Hole Shaped Grave | Tunnel of Love | Hole N' The Rock - An Amazing Cave House Built Single-handedly | Sedlec Ossuary - A Chapel Decorated With Human Bones | Performance Piece - An Abstract Sculpture | Strange town of Setenil | Giant Hands of Chandigarh, India | Amazing Landscape and Cave Settlements of Cappadocia, Turkey | World's Largest Semaphore | Iglesia El Rosario, El Salvador | Garden of Dolls | Trestle Art - Converting Unsightly to Showpiece | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 4 | Gravity Defying Stones | Moeraki Boulders - Giant Eggs Laid by Nature | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 26 | Metronome - A Huge & Strange Public Art Work in NYC | Strange Orange Coloured Power Plant | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 14 | Broken Chair - A Monument to Landmine Victims | Giraffe Through The Roof | Strokes of Nature - Face of a Red Indian | Can You Recognise This # 12 | Bookshelf Murals Around The World - Updated | House Attack - Small House Versus Big House | For the Spider Lovers - A Giant Web | World Wide Web - Birthplace | Minaret of Jam | Hotel Which Looks Like A Stack of Dutch Houses | Heart Shaped Pond for the Valentine's Day | Cabin Built from Fossilised Dinosaur Bones | The Painted Wall, Barcelona | World's Tallest Windmills - Schiedam Holland | World's Biggest Image Building | Magical Floating Water Taps Around The World | Last Hiding Place Of Lenin | World's Largest Bicycle | Gundam RX-78 Giant Robot Hero - Life Size Statue | Turtle Shaped Temple, Nagasaki, Japan | The Giant Eye of Chicago | Maeslantkering - World's Largest Storm Barrier | Weird Houses Around the World - 5 | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 13 | Rock Garden, Chandigarh - A Garden Built Clandestinely By One Man | World's Largest Lenin's Head | Car on Wall | Heidelberg Project - Transforming A Shambled Street Into Pride Of The City | Duke of York's Picture House - Oldest Cinema Hall in UK | The Floating Islands of Lake Titacaca | Treetops Lodge - Where A Princess Became A Queen | Transporter Bridge - Rendsburg, Germany | Weird Houses Around the World - 13 | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World | Can You Recognise This # 19 | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 30 (Ice Cream Cone, Chavoshi, Bushehr Province, Iran) | International Bridge on the river Mino | Bosco Verticale - World’s First Vertical Forest | Tower of Hercules - World's Oldest Lighthouse | A Starry Mosque - Dhaka | World's Lowest Height Building - Fuji Kindergarten | World's Highest Outdoor Lift (The Bailong Lift) | A Huge Modern Building on Stilts | Can You Recognise This # 6 | Memorial to Gandhi's First Non-violent Struggle | St. Beatus Caves With Stunning Entrance | King Kong Versus Beetle | Weird Houses Around the World - 14 | Spectacular Murmuration of Starlings at Gretna Green | Fujian Tulou, China - World Heritage Site | Can You Recognise This # 17 | The Great Bombay Explosion | Dali's Museum and Torre Galatea - Strange Architecture | Automatic Bike Dispensing Machines in The Netherlands | Magical Floating Water Taps Around The World - Updated | Dell - Birthplace | Weird Houses Around the World - 18 | Keshwa Chaca - Oldest Surviving Inca Rope Bridge | Cottage On A Chimney | Can You Recognise This # 4 | The Lighthouse Mosque - Oldest Mosque in China | Ha! Ha! Pyramid | Strokes of Nature - Hell's Fire | Huge EU Poster in Google Earth | World's Tallest Mud Earth Building | Giant Hand at Holocaust Memorial, Miami | Cube Houses, Rotterdam | Saxine - The Smiling Water Tower | Dublin Gasworks Apartments - The Alliance Building | Relocated Nubian Temples outside Egypt | Jasenovac Tri-Bridge, Croatia | Mysterious Mojave Megaphone | Roofless Church | Giant Floral Carpet, Brussels | World's First Truly Circular Skyscraper | Giethoorn - Village With No Roads | World's Largest Hole in a Lake (Revised*) | "Desert Breath" - Art in the desert | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 15 | "My Dear Mother" Clock | World's Widest Sculpture - Angel of The North | A Little Island With A Small Church - Bled Island | Some More Giant Hands Around The World | A Sad Story of a Lonely Tree | Lucy - World's Biggest Elephant | Wotruba Kirche - A Church Made of Concrete Blocks | Beautiful Vakil Mosque of Shiraz | Lift Towers or Elevator Testing Towers | Winners' Chapel (Faith-Tabernacle), Nigeria | Amazing Binocular Shaped Building | India's Only Natural Arch Bridge | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 8 | Statue of Unity - World's Tallest Statue | Weird Houses Around the World - 12 | Gateway to Heaven - Tianmen Cave, China | World's Largest Horseshoe Crab | London Bridge has fallen down | Wichahpi Stone Wall - A Unique Memorial to A Native American Woman | Vertigo Inducing Glass Balconies at Willis Tower, Chicago | Statues of Amazing Penitents of Taxco, Mexico | Unique Library Which Straddles Borders of Two Countries | Leaning Towers of Madrid | Namba Park, Osaka - A Green Shopping Mall Cum Office | World's Largest Island within a Lake on an Island within a Lake on an Island | Amazing Coffins of Ga Tribe, Ghana | Kjeragbolten (Kjerag Boulder), Norway | Grasshopper Bridge, Denmark | Giant Floral Carpet, Brussels - 2010 | The Heart of Voh | The Spotted Lake | Mysterious Well of Hell | Weird Houses Around the World - 8 | The Eerie Chapel of Bones | Islet Made Famous by Bond Movie | World's Remotest Island | Sleeping on Bed of Ice | Goat Towers Around The World - Updated | Giant Blooming Poppy Flowers | When Martians Landed | More - Tri-Bridges Around the World | Stone Ships of Vikings | World's Tallest Statue of Virgin Mary | A Cute Three Way Bridge | "Castel Meur" - House Made Famous by Picture Postcard | Giant Elephant of Nantes | ACROS Green Building, Tenjin, Japan | Hewlett-Packard - Birthplace | Enchanted Highway - A 32 Mile Long Art Collection | Small Town Made Famous by BBC Serial | Giant Shark on Land, NSW, Australia | Man Who Walked Through The Walls | Zorbing - Rolling Down a Slope in a Ball | World’s Shortest International Bridge | Smallest House in Great Britain | Tower of Thousand Cranes - Children's Peace Monument, Hiroshima | Amazing Horse Shoe Shaped Hotel | Modern Day Ten Commandments | World's Largest Radio Telescope | Amazing Tufa Towers of Mono Lake | Weird Houses Around the World - 10 | Can You Recognise This # 24 | Strange Custom of Baby Jumping | Giant Keyboard - World's Largest | Giant Balloon Dogs of Jeff Koons | Unique Building Which Looks Like Fabergé Egg | World's Largest Loudspeaker | 7 Strong Men of Russia | Swimming on the Edge of the Mighty Victoria Falls (Devil's Pool) | Khaju Bridge, Isfahan, Iran | Temple Which Is Not Temple - Palace of Baron Empain, Egypt | World's Largest Terraced Paddy Fields, Yuen Yang, China | World's Largest Pendulum Clock | Ju Ming Museum - Taiwan's Largest Sculpture Garden | Red Taj Mahal, Agra | Door to Hell | Hill of Crosses, Šiauliai, Lithuania | Tri-Bridges Around The World | Living on Top of Pillar of Rock | A Green Church | The Giant Awakes - The Awakening and The Second Awakening | Sculptures in White Desert | The Island Which Refused to Die | Locks of Love around the World! | Thrown out of Window | Weird Houses Around the World - 4 | World's Largest Coin | World's Largest Treetop Hotel - The Ariau Amazon Towers | Fake Round Bridge Which is Not Fake | Intricate Latticework at Sidi Sayyid's Mosque, Ahmedabad | Magical Floating Water Tap, Siliguri, India | Town Which Twice Escaped Atom Bomb Annihilation | Saint-Michel d'Aiguilhe - Chapel on a volcanic plug | Can You Recognise This # 27 | World's Most Crooked Street - Lombard Street, San Francisco | Can You Recognise This # 1 | World's Largest Ship - Emma Mærsk | World's Largest Rehal | Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 9 | Unusual Shaped Red Bridge in Utrecht, The Netherlands | Tri-Bridges Around the World | City Lounge, St. Gallens - World's Largest Open Air Lounge | Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, Yamoussoukro | America's Oldest Functioning Windmill | Amazing Floating Islands of Loktak Lake, Manipur, India | World's Largest Synthetic Material Sculpture | A "Mammoth" Statue, Salekhard, Siberia | Giant Hands of Mario Irarrázabal | Ponte Vecchio - Florence's Oldest Bridge with Shops | Unique Curling Bridge | Giant Drawer House | Calamita Cosmica The Giant Skeleton on Prowl |

Giant Hands Around The World - May 2024 Update

Another major addition to my collection of "Giant Hands Around The World".


A total of 117 118 new hands at 83 locations have been added in this addition. With this addition, the collection now includes more than 575 locations. The actual number of hands is 650+, as some locations have more than one hand.



The newly found location and hands therein are:


  1. Hands Cradling An Open Chest, Cling Lounge & Bar, Civil Lives, New Delhi, India.
  2. Hands Memorial to Venmani Martyrs, Kizhavenmani, Tamil Nadu, India.
  3. Giant Hand, Kintoor, Baraulia, Barabanki, UP, India.
  4. Giant Hand, Srogo Fruit Farm, Tawanganom, Magetan, East Java, Indonesia.
  5. Hands of Choice, Safed, Israel.
  6. Four Hands at Sanno Bridge, Imizu, Toyama, Japan.
  7. Giant Hand, Gap Farming Resort, Davao City, Philippines.
  8. Boy Scout Monument, Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines.
  9. Le Pouce de César, Souk Waqif, Doha, Qatar.
  10. Hand at Chin Pao San Cemetery, New Taipei, Taiwan.
  11. Giant Hands, Yassıada Island, Turkey.
  12. Hands, Prehistoric Cave Paintings, Ngula (Jar Island), Australia.
  13. White Hands, Centennial Park Cemetery, Pasadena, Australia.
  14. Giant White Hand Holding A Streamer, Millicent, SA, Australia.
  15. Big Thumbs Up, Scottsdale, TAS, Australia.
  16. Hand Holding Pears, Wellen, Flanders, Belgium.
  17. Pair of White Hands, Lebbeke, Belgium.
  18. Two Clenched Fists Holding Torches, Buzludzha, Kazanluk, Bulgaria.
  19. Le Pouce de César, Humlebæk, Denmark.
  20. Butt Im Griff, Sønderborg, Denmark.
  21. Le Pouce de César, Île Seguin, Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
  22. Hands Holding a Sphere, Couëron, France.
  23. Two Fingers Victory Sign, Épinal, France.
  24. Hands Imprints on Transparent Sphere, Le Havre, France.
  25. Hands Holding Globe, Loon-Plage, France.
  26. Pair Of Cupped Hands, Montreuil, France.
  27. Le Pouce de César, Nice, France.
  28. Le Pouce de César, The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
  29. Hands Joined in Prayer, Rochefort-du-Gard, France.
  30. Hands Protecting Eiffel Tower, Eu, Seine-Maritime, France.
  31. Butt Im Griff, Gildehaus, Bad Bentheim, Germany.
  32. Butt Im Griff, Behlendorf, Germany.
  33. Pair of Overlapping Hands, Berlin, Germany.
  34. Butt Im Griff, Göttingen, Germany.
  35. Butt Im Griff, Günter Grass-Haus, Lübeck, Germany.
  36. Sculpture Of A Violinist, National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam, Holland.
  37. Giant Hands Holding a Globe, Leusden, Holland.
  38. Hands Holding a Sling, Leusden, Holland.
  39. Hand of the Manx Giant, Isle of Man.
  40. Pair of Hands Protecting Flowering Shrub, Bagnara, Calabra, Calabria, Italy.
  41. Two Hands and a Ring, Obninsk, Russia.
  42. Hands Protecting Trees, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
  43. Hand Between Sky and Earth, Allai, Sardinia.
  44. Three Fists Monument, Memorial Park Bubanj, Nis, Serbia.
  45. Pair of Hands, Puente de Trabajo Digne, Barcelona, Spain.
  46. Hand Holding A Rail, Barcelona, Spain.
  47. Hand Holding Grapes, Briones, Spain.
  48. Captive Hands of the Christ of Medinaceli, Ceuta, Spain.
  49. Hand of God, Quinn Creations, Gavà, Spain.
  50. Hands Supporting A Tree, Quinn Creations, Gavà, Spain.
  51. Clasped Hands, Granollers, Spain.
  52. Clasped Hands, Rancate, Mendrisio, Switzerland.
  53. Giant Waymarker Hand, Argyll and Bute, UK.
  54. Canalside Carving, Wharf Bridge, Aldershot, England, UK.
  55. Tribute to Indigenous Children, Nanaimo, BC, Canada.
  56. Giant Hand, El Pósito Viewpoint, Chiapas Viewpoint, Mexico.
  57. Two Hands holding Wooden Ball on a Stick, Mexico City, Mexico.
  58. Giant Hand Shaped Chair, Cuauhtémoc, México City, Mexico.
  59. Giant Hands, Jojutla, Morelos, Mexico.
  60. Hands at Entrance, Vagalume, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
  61. Hands Supporting Walkway Over A Pool, Vagalume, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
  62. Pair of White Hands, Vagalume, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
  63. Hands Cradling An Open Chest, Ven a la Luz Sculpture Park, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
  64. Hand Lying on the Ground, Ven a la Luz Sculpture Park, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
  65. Pair of White Hands, Ven a la Luz Sculpture Park, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
  66. Giant Hand, Maopochtliii Viewpoint, San Nicolas de los Montes, San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
  67. Hands of Francis of Assisi Viewpoint, Real de Catorce, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
  68. Giant Wooden Hand, Maven Hotel, Denver, CO, USA.
  69. Large Hands Fountain, Holiday World, Santa Claus, IN, USA.
  70. Pair of Hands, Old School Gallery, El Morro, NM, USA.
  71. Hook 'Em Horns Tree, Austin, TX, USA.
  72. Giant Robotic Hand, Johnson City, TX, USA.
  73. Le Pouce de César, Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden, Washington (DC), USA.
  74. Two Intertwined Hands, La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
  75. Wooden Hand Holding A Flaming Torch, Colón, Argentina.
  76. Cave of the Hands, Santa Cruz, Argentina.
  77. Hand Sculptures at Jardim das Esculturas, São João dos Mellos, RS, Brazil.
  78. Giant Hands along the Roads to Sculpture Garden, RS, Brazil.
  79. Giant Hands Supporting the Roof and Pillars of Hotel Lobby, Bogotá, Colombia.
  80. Giant's Hand Viewpoint, Gigante, Huila, Colombia.
  81. Giant Hand Holding A Huge Sphere, Tocancipá, Colombia.
  82. Hand Pointing to Sky, Quesada, Alajuela, Costa Rica.
  83. Giant Hands at Nosara Beach Hotel, Nosara, Costa Rica.

Given below are brief details of newly added hands, along with images and location:



Hands Cradling An Open Chest, Cling Lounge & Bar, Civil Lines, New Delhi, India.


An eye-catching sculpture in the Cling lounge welcomes the guests inside with an open heart.



A sculpture with a similar design known as Ven a la Luz (meaning 'Come to the light') is also at the Sculpture Park in Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico.




Image from Google Maps is by sanjeev kapoor



Google Street View



Hands Memorial to Venmani Martyrs, Kizhavenmani, Tamil Nadu, India.


The memorial in Kizhavenmani (Venmani village), Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu, India, commemorates the 44 Dalit (low-caste) labourers who were brutally massacred on December 25, 1968. The memorial consists of 44 granite pillars, symbolising the victims. Each pillar is adorned with a clenched raised fist, and the pillars encircle a large museum building, preserving the memory of this tragic event.



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Image from Google Maps is by Balamurugan Ramalingam



Google Street View



Source of information: Wikipedia



Giant Hand, Kintoor, Baraulia, Barabanki, UP, India.


A giant hand with the forefinger holding a disc is located near a baobab tree in the village of Kintoor, Baraulia, Barabanki, India. The baobab trees are native to Sub-Saharan Africa, and their presence in India, especially in the fertile Indo-Gangetic Plain, is a very rare phenomenon. The tree is about 800 years old, and its presence in this region is a mystery. Because of its rarity, the tree is considered sacred by the Hindus, and they worship it. The tree, locally known as the Parijaat tree, is associated with the Hindu god Lord Krishna.



The disc probably represents the mythological flying disc, which Lord Krishna used as a weapon while fighting the evil forces.




Image from Google Maps is by Shesh Mani



Google Maps: Likely location, as the hand is not visible in Google Maps or in Google Street View.



Giant Hand, Srogo Fruit Farm, Tawanganom, Magetan, East Java, Indonesia.


The fruit garden has been developed as a nature tourism spot where one can enjoy 22 types of fruits. Reportedly, there are about 830 fruit trees.



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Image from Google Maps is by Mulyono



Google Street View



Source of information: beritatrends.co.id



The Hands of Choice, Safed, Israel.


"The Hands of Choice," an artwork by Jerusalem sculptor Sam Philipe, features a pair of hands cradling a 3-dimensional Star of David. On each facet of the star, the names of 400 Jews who saved other Jews are etched in both Hebrew and English.



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Image from Google Maps is by Ran Shitirit



Google Maps (Not visible in Google Maps but the location is marked on the map.)



Source of information: The Times of Israel Blog by Jerry Klinger



Four Hands at Sanno Bridge, Imizu, Toyama, Japan.


The Bridge of Hands, formerly Sanno Bridge, is a unique bridge with four marble hand sculptures, one at each corner of the bridge.




Image from Google Maps is by 高橋裕里香




Image from Google Maps is by すみかつ




Image from Google Maps is by tomba




Image from Google Maps is by すみかつ




Image from Google Maps is by 湯とり世代



Google Street View



Source of information: takeda.noor.jp



Giant Hand, Gap Farming Resort, Davao City, Philippines.


A large hand of a buried giant rising from the ground.




Image from Google Maps is by Surya Durai



Google Maps. Likely location, as the hand is not visible in Google Maps or in Google Street View.



Boy Scout Monument, Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines.


Located at the Campground of Boy Scouts




Image from Google Maps is by Fong Kah Chun



Google Street View



Le Pouce de César, Souk Waqif, Doha, Qatar.


Le Pouce (The Thumb) is a classic sculpture by the famous sculptor César Baldaccini. Modelled after his own thumb, it depicts, in detail, the fingerprint and skin wrinkles. Several replicas of this famous sculpture have been made and are installed at various locations around the world.



This sculpture was installed to commemorate the victory of the Qatari football team at the 2019 Asian Cup.




Image from Google Maps is by Mia A



Google Street View.



Source of information: timeoutdoha.com



Hand at Chin Pao San Cemetery, New Taipei City, Taiwan.


A large hand amongst many faces, a foot, and busts of Buddha carved into the rock at the cemetery.




Image Source: Google Street View



Giant Hands, Yassıada Island, Turkey.


Yassıada, a very small island in the Sea of Marmara, was the venue of the trials of members of the former ruling Democrat Party (DP), following the military coup of May 27, 1960. Several members of the DP were sentenced to death. The island is now officially called Democracy and Freedom Island.



There are two pairs of giant hands located on the island as part of the museum established in memory of all those who were who were tried there.



One pair of hands is holding a chain, while the other pair of hands is holding a blindfolded face with an open book lying on the ground.




Image from Google Maps is by Hatice AYDIN




Image from Google Maps is by Heba



Google Maps. (Likely location somewhere in the green area near the museum. The hands are not visible in Google Maps or in Google Street View.)



Hands, Prehistoric Cave Paintings, Ngula (Jar Island), Australia.


The prehistoric cave paintings at Ngula (Jar Island), Kimberley Coast, WA, Australia, known as Gwion or Bradshaw paintings, are estimated to be around 15,000 to 20,000 years old.



These are, therefore, the oldest works of art in this collection.



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Image Source: Google Street View (Photosphere) by Aspen Travel Advisors 970-315-2226.



Source of information: zayahworld.com



White Hands, Centennial Park Cemetery, Pasadena, Australia.


Called "Connections," the 4 metre-high sculpture by Karl Meyer at Centennial Park Cemetery was unveiled in December 2018. It is softly lit at night.




Image from Google Maps is by Oz Guy



Google Street View



Source of information: adelaidenow.com.au



Giant White Hand Holding A Streamer, Millicent, SA, Australia.


The artwork was installed in September 2021 at the corner of Williams Road and Ridge Terrace.




Image Source: Google Street View



Source of information: borderwatch.com.au



Big Thumbs Up, Scottsdale, TAS, Australia.


A wooden hand on Kings Street (A3) with the sign "G'day Mate, Welcome to Scottsdale."



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Image from Google Maps is by Eugene Foo



Google Street View



Hand Holding Pears, Wellen, Flanders, Belgium.


Located at a roundabout at the intersection of Bloemenstraat and Zonneveldweg.



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Image Source: Google Street View



Pair of White Hands, Lebbeke, Belgium.


The White Hands Memorial in Lebbeke, Belgium, is a poignant tribute to the civilians who were executed en masse by the Germans during World War I. The memorial, an artwork by local sculptor Wilfried Jacops, commissioned in 2014, is located on a roundabout and symbolises peace and remembrance.



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Image from Google Maps is by Hans De Middeleer



Google Street View



A smaller version of the sculptor has been installed at the Rest Area on Hof-ter-Varentstraat.



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Image from Google Maps is by Larisa L.



Google Street View



Source of information: tracesofwar.com



Two Clenched Fists Holding Torches, Buzludzha, Kazanluk, Bulgaria.


The sculpture represents the friendly relationship that existed between Bulgaria and the erstwhile USSR.



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Image from Flickr is by Leon Hart



Google Street View



Le Pouce de César, Humlebæk, Denmark.


Le Pouce (The Thumb) is a classic sculpture by the famous sculptor César Baldaccini. Modelled after his own thumb, it depicts, in detail, the fingerprint and skin wrinkles. Several replicas of this famous sculpture have been made and are installed at various locations around the world.



This sculpture is located at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark.




Image from Google Maps is by Natalia Font



Google Maps. Being indoor, it is not visible in Google Maps satellite imagery.



"Butt Im Griff", Sønderborg, Denmark.


Der Butt im Griff is a bronze sculpture by the artist Günter Grass. The sculpture is 2.3 metres high and shows a hand holding a flounder fish, which symbolises experience in life and wisdom.



There are many replicas of this sculpture. This one on the shores of the Alssund Straits at Sønder Havnegade Street, Sønderborg, Denmark, is one of the several that are included in this collection.



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Image from Flickr is by Arne List



Google Street View



Le Pouce de César, Île Seguin, Boulogne-Billancourt, France.


Le Pouce (The Thumb) is a classic sculpture by the famous sculptor César Baldaccini. Modelled after his own thumb, it depicts, in detail, the fingerprint and skin wrinkles. Several replicas of this famous sculpture have been made and are installed at various locations around the world.



This one is located in front of the Seine Musicale building, Île Seguin (Seguin Island), an island on the Seine river in the west suburbs of Paris. The 6-metre-tall sculpture was earlier installed at Collège Romain-Rolland, Le Plessis-Robinson, and was relocated here in 1998.




Image from Google Maps is by Delphine



Google Street View



Source: French Wikipedia



Hands Holding a Sphere, Couëron, France.


Located at the intersection of Bd François Blancho with Rue Alexandre Olivier, Couëron.




Image from Google Maps is by Goreti Fernandes



Google Street View



Two Fingers Victory Sign, Épinal, France.


Located on Rue des Minimes, Épinal, France, the sculpture by César is called Liberté. Made of bronze, the sculpture is 6.5 metres high. It was unveiled in 1989 on the occasion of the bicentenary of the 1789 French Revolution.



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Image from Google Maps is by Lolo Laurent



Google Street View (Sept. 2019). It can be barely visualised at the far end, in front of the white car, but it can be clearly seen in this Google Street View (Photosphere).



Source of information: atlasmuseum.net



Hands Imprints on Transparent Sphere, Le Havre, France.


Located on Boulevard Clemenceau, the monument's design is based on the logo of CARE International, an international NGO.




Image from Google Maps is by G P Hapitan



Google Street View



Hands Holding Globe, Loon-Plage, France.


Located on Rdpt de la 5ème République (5th Republic Roundabout), Loon-Plage, Hauts-de-France.




Image Source: Google Street View



Pair Of Cupped Hands, Montreuil, France.


The mural 'La Paix' (Peace), created by the artist Espion, is situated on Rue Edouard Vaillant in Montreuil.




Image Source: Google Street View



Source of information: streetartcities.com



Le Pouce de César, Nice, France.


Le Pouce (The Thumb) is a classic sculpture by the famous sculptor César Baldaccini. Modelled after his own thumb, it depicts, in detail, the fingerprint and skin wrinkles. Several replicas of this famous sculpture have been made and are installed at various locations around the world.



This sculpture created in 1963 is located at the entrance to Nice City Hall (Hotel de Ville).




Image from Google Maps is by Hanspeter Lutz



Google Street View



Le Pouce de César, The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.


Le Pouce (The Thumb) is a classic sculpture by the famous sculptor César Baldaccini. Modelled after his own thumb, it depicts, in detail, the fingerprint and skin wrinkles. Several replicas of this famous sculpture have been made and are installed at various locations around the world.



One such sculpture was installed in front of the Centre Pompidou, but its installation date and current whereabouts are a mystery.



As per atlasmuseum.net a golden coloured thumb was installed in 1965 in front of the Centre Pompidou



However as per sortiraparis.com a monumental 6-metre-high gilded bronze Thumb was installed on November 28, 2017 on the piazza, Place Georges Pompidou, on the occasion of the "César retrospective," which was held at the centre from 13th December 2017 to 26th March 2018.



Various pictures on sortiraparis.com and in Google Street View (Photosphere) show a large Thumb in a hall and also a pair of Thumbs in a glass cubicle inside the Centre.



The Street Views of the outside taken by Google Car don't show any Thumb but third party Google Views (photospheres) do show the Thumb at the outside. Perhaps all the Thumbs were temporarily installed at the centre.




Image from Google Maps is by Daniele Nicola Dinami




Image from Flickr is Jean-Pierre Dalbéra




Image Source: Google Street View (Photosphere) by Jean-Marc Perfetti



Google Street View (Photosphere) outside view.



Google Street View ((Photosphere) inside view.



Hands Joined in Prayer, Rochefort-du-Gard, France.


Located in front of the Saint-Bardulphe Church, Rue de l'Église, Rochefort-du-Gard, France.



Created in the early 1980s by Bruno Parizat, it is among his numerous artworks located in the town.



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Image Source: Google Street View



Hands Protecting Eiffel Tower, Eu, Seine-Maritime, France.


A fresco painted by artist Johann Grenier as a tribute to the victims of the Paris attacks of November 13, 2015.




Image Source: Google Street View



Source of information: france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr



"Butt Im Griff", Gildehaus, Bad Bentheim, Germany.


Der Butt im Griff is a bronze sculpture by the artist Günter Grass. The sculpture is 2.3 metres high and shows a hand holding a flounder fish, which symbolises experience in life and wisdom.



There are many replicas of this sculpture. This one in front of the Otto-Pankok Museum, Neuer Weg, Gildehaus, Bad Bentheim is one of the several that are included in this collection.



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Image from Google Maps is by Heidi Drogt



Google Street View



"Butt Im Griff", Behlendorf, Germany.


Der Butt im Griff is a bronze sculpture by the artist Günter Grass. The sculpture is 2.3 metres high and shows a hand holding a flounder fish, which symbolises experience in life and wisdom.



There are many replicas of this sculpture. This one in front of Brinkhuus, Gemeinde Behlendorf, Am Brink, Behlendorf, where the artist's stayed for many years, is one of the several that are included in this collection.



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Image from Google Maps is by Rainer Otte



Google Street View



Source of information: sh-kunst.de



Pair of Overlapping Hands, Berlin, Germany.


The mural titled "Unter der Hand" (Under the Hand) at the corner of Brückenstraße and Köpenicker Strasse, Kreuzberg district, is an artwork by artist Case MaClaim.




Image from Google Maps is by Chandler L.



Google Street View



Source of information: street-art-avenue.com



"Butt Im Griff", Göttingen, Germany.


Der Butt im Griff is a bronze sculpture by the artist Günter Grass. The sculpture is 2.3 metres high and shows a hand holding a flounder fish, which symbolises experience in life and wisdom.



There are many replicas of this sculpture, and this one at Papendiek Street, Göttingen, is one of the several that are included in this collection.



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Image from deutscheecke.blogspot.com is by J. Luis García



Google Street View



"Butt Im Griff", Günter Grass-Haus, Lübeck, Germany.


Der Butt im Griff is a bronze sculpture by the artist Günter Grass. The sculpture is 2.3 metres high and shows a hand holding a flounder fish, which symbolises experience in life and wisdom.



There are many replicas of this sculpture, and this one at Günter Grass-Haus, Glockengießerstraße, Lübeck, is one of the several that are included in this collection.



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Image from Google Maps is by Christel Dönitz



Google Street View



Source of information: sh-kunst.de



Sculpture Of A Violinist, National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam, Holland.


The head and a hand holding a violin bursting through the tiled floor of Amsterdam's National Opera & Ballet is an eye-catching artwork created by an unknown artist who is known for anonymously installing various artworks in public spaces in Amsterdam under the cover of night.




Image from Flickr is by Chris 861



Not visible in Google Street View.



Source of information: heavenly-holland.com



Giant Hands Holding a Globe, Leusden, Holland.


Two huge hands holding a big globe entitled "You Are The World" is an artwork created by Lorenzo Quinn and installed at the premises of AFAS Software.




Image from Google Maps is by magic chocolate



View from the front.




Image from Google Maps is by Hans Driesen



Google Street View



Source of information: afas.nl



Hands Holding a Sling, Leusden, Holland.


Called "Stop Playing" this sculpture, an artwork by Lorenzo Quinn, is located in the courtyard garden at the AFAS Software.




Image from Google Maps is by Robin Eype



Goggle Maps. Likely location, as the hand is not visible in Google Maps or in Google Street View.



Source of information: afas.nl



Hand of the Manx Giant, Isle of Man.


Arthur Caley, popularly known as the Manx Giant, was born in Sulby, on the Isle of Man, in 1824. He was a giant of a man, standing 2.41 metres (7 feet 11 inches) tall and weighing more than 280 kg (400 lbs). He was probably the tallest man in the world during his lifetime.



His life was surrounded by mystery. He reportedly died in Paris in 1853, but later, around 1859, he turned up in New York in P.T. Barnum's show under the name of Colonel Routh Goshen, the Arabian Giant.



During his early years, he used to work in Rose Cottage in Regaby, near Sulby, where a cast of his hand is on display at the gate pillar. The height of the middle finger from the ground is exactly 2.41 metres, the same height as the Manx Giant.



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Image Source: geograph.org.uk



Google Street View



Source of information: BBC News / Wikipedia



Pair of Hands Protecting Flowering Shrub, Bagnara, Calabra, Calabria, Italy.


Near the Ponte di Caravilla.



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Image Source: Google Street View



Two Hands and a Ring, Obninsk, Russia.


Located outside Salon Brakosochetaniya, a wedding hall, it shows two hands, one masculine and the other feminine, with a ring in the background.



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Image from Google Maps is by Сергей Лапаев



Google Street View



Hands Protecting Trees, Yekaterinburg, Russia.


Somewhere on Ulitsa Pushkina, Yekaterinburg, Russia.



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Image Source: Google Street View



Hand Between Sky and Earth, Allai, Sardinia.


Artist Simon O’Rourke has beautifully converted an old decaying tree into a work of art, an outstretched hand reaching to the sky. The sculpture is called "A Hand Between Sky and Earth".




Image from Google Maps is by Carmen Oggiano



Google Street View



Source of information: Website of artist Simon O’Rourke - treecarving.co.uk



Three Fists Monument, Memorial Park Bubanj, Nis, Serbia.


The Three Fists Monument in Bubanj Memorial Park in Niš commemorates the shooting and execution of over 10,000 citizens of Niš and people from other regions of Serbia by the German troops. It consists of three concrete obelisks in abstract form, shaped like raised hands with clenched fists of varying sizes, representing men, women, and children who defied the enemy.



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Image from Google Maps is by Stanislava Smiljković



Google Street View



Source of information: Wikipedia



Hand Holding A Rail, Barcelona, Spain.


An artwork by Josep Ricart Maymir, the sculpture titled Cooperativa de Tramvies is a tribute to the tramway system of Barcelona.




Image from Wikimedia Commons is by DagafeSQV



Google Street View



Source of information: bcnroc.ajuntament.barcelona.cat



Pair of Hands, Puente de Trabajo Digne, Barcelona, Spain.


A sculpture titled Matrimoni (wedding) by artist Josep Ricart Maymir.




Image from Wikimedia Commons is by Ismael March



Google Street View



Hand Holding Grapes, Briones, Spain.


A large hand holding grapes emerges from the wall of the Vivanco Museum of Wine Culture.




Image from Google Maps is by Javier Alguacil



Google Street View



Captive Hands of the Christ of Medinaceli, Ceuta, Spain.


Two hands bound by rope symbolise the captive hands of the "Cristo del Medinaceli" (Christ of Medinaceli). These bronze hands, emerging from the walls, are located within a fountain at the intersection of Avenida España and Avenida Otero and are an artwork by the Pedrajas brothers.




Image from Google Maps is by C. Antonio González



Google Street View



Source of information: ceutaturistica.com



Hand of God, Quinn Creations, Gavà, Spain.


A replica of the famous sculpture "Hand of God" at the workshop of Lorenzo Quinn. It is possible that this may be the original and that others elsewhere could be replicas.




Image from Google Maps is by Mireia



Google Street View



Hands Supporting A Tree, Quinn Creations, Gavà, Spain.


Another pair of hands at the workshop of the famous sculptor Lorenzo Quinn.




Image from Google Maps is by Francisco Gárate



Google Street View



Clasped Hands, Granollers, Spain.


The sculpture commemorates the title awarded to the city in recognition of its efforts to promote Sardana, which is a traditional Catalan dance.



The sculpture inaugurated in 1976 is the work of artist Josep Ricart Maymir. It is located in Parc Torras Villà and depicts two hands holding each other, as in the dance of the Sardana.




Image from Google Maps is by Ramon Blanco



Google Maps Likely location, as the hands are not visible in Google Maps or in Google Street View.



Source of information: poblesdecatalunya.cat



Clasped Hands, Rancate, Mendrisio, Switzerland.


An artwork by artists Judith Holstein and Gianni Rodenhäuser, located on a roundabout on the Via Antonio Rinaldi intersection with Via Pizzolo in Rancate.




Image Source: Google Street View (Photosphere) by Salvatore Sinopoli



Google Street View



Source of information: kunstimkreisverkehr.de



Giant Waymarker Hand, Argyll and Bute, UK.


A large carved wooden hand points to Ardfern at the T-off from A816 near Kintraw. Created by artist Robert Coiait, it is 7 metres (22 feet) long and 2.4 metres (7.8 feet) high.




Image source: geograph.org.uk



Google Street View



Source of information: saatchiart.com



Canalside Carving, Wharf Bridge, Aldershot, England, UK.


A wooden sculpture beside the Basingstoke Canal Tow Path, near Wharf Bridge, Farnborough Road, Aldershot, England, UK.



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Image Source: geograph.org.uk



Google Street View



Tribute to Indigenous Children, Nanaimo, BC, Canada.


A large number of orange handprints on the dark wall symbolise the tragic discovery of Indigenous children's remains at former residential schools in Canada. The artwork by artist Lauren Semple is located on a wall on Wallace St. opposite City Hall.




Image Source: Google Street View.



The picture shows only a small portion of the hands on the wall. A full view can be seen at the above Google Street View link.



Source of information: The Wave 102.3 FM



Giant Hand, El Pósito Viewpoint, Chiapas Viewpoint Mexico.


A viewpoint designed as a giant hand overlooking the Chiapas forest in Córdova Matasanos, Unión Juárez, Mexico. The hand rises to a height of 17 metres.



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Image from Google Maps is by Adolfo Cruz



Google Maps The hand is barely visible in the satellite imagery.



Source of information: Mexico Desconocido



Two Hands holding Wooden Ball on a Stick, Mexico City, Mexico.


Located in the Museum of Ancient Mexican Toys (Museo del Juguete Antiguo México), Cuauhtémoc, Ciudad de México, Mexico.



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Image from Google Maps is by Thunderxk



Google Street View



Giant Hand Shaped Chair, Cuauhtémoc, México City, Mexico.


Located on the roof of a shop at 40 Veracruz Street, Roma Nte., Cuauhtémoc, it was created by artist Pedro Friedeberg.




Image from Google Maps is by Alfredo perezdetejada



Google Street View



Source of information: mxcity.mx



Giant Hands, Jojutla, Morelos, Mexico.


A large hand comforting (or supporting) another hand is a memorial to the devastation of the town and the lives lost at Jojutla, Morelos, due to the September 2017 earthquake.




Image from Google Maps is by Pineda Art (PinedaArt)



Google Street View



Hands at Entrance, Vagalume, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico.


Two wooden hands, one hanging from the top and the other buried in the ground at the entrance portal of the Vagalume Tulum.




Image from Google Maps is by Javier Alegre



Google Street View



Hands Supporting Walkway Over A Pool, Vagalume, Quintana Roo, Mexico.


Located at Vagalume Tulum at the Tulum Beach.




Image from Google Maps is by Monica Sanchez



Google Street View



Pair of White Hands, Vagalume, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico.



Image from Google Maps is by Aurélien Miserey



Google Maps Likely location, as these hands are not visible in Google Maps or in Google Street View.



Hands Cradling An Open Chest, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico.


An eye-catching sculpture in Tulum called Ven a la Luz (meaning 'Come to the light') depicts two hands framing the open ribcage of a woman. An artwork by South African artist Daniel Popper, it was originally displayed at the Art With Me Tulum Festival in 2018. Later on, it was moved to the Ahau Tulum Resort, and finally, in late 2021, it was relocated as an entrance to a newly created sculpture park adjacent to the Ahau Tulum Resort. The 10-metre (33-foot) tall wooden sculpture is a popular spot for social media posts and a selfie point, and usually there is a long queue for taking pictures there.



A sculpture with a similar basic design but white in colour is also at the Cling Lounge & Bar, New Delhi, India.




Image from Google Maps is by D.E. Parks



Google Street View (Before it was moved to new location. Current location not visible in Google Maps or in Google Street View.)



Source of information: tulumtravelsecrets.com



Hand Lying on the Ground, Ven a la Luz Sculpture Park, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico.



Image from Google Maps is by Mercedes Sarduy



The exact location couldn't be ascertained, as the hand is not visible in Google Maps or in Google Street View.



Pair of White Hands, Ven a la Luz Sculpture Park, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico.



Image from Google Maps is by Damien Zimmerman



The exact location couldn't be ascertained, as the hands are not visible in Google Maps or in Google Street View.



Giant Hand, Maopochtliii Viewpoint, San Nicolas de los Montes, San Luis Potosi, Mexico.


A viewpoint shaped like a giant hand, overlooking the stream leading to San Nicolas de los Montes Waterfall.



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Image from Google Maps is by Montse Castillo



Google Maps (Not visible in Google Maps but the location is marked on the map.)



Source of information: Mexico Desconocido



Hands of Francis of Assisi Viewpoint, Real de Catorce, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.


Two hand-shaped viewpoints, modelled after the hands of Saint Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of the town of Real de Catorce. The viewpoint offers a scenic view of the mountain and the valley.



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Image from Google Maps is by Eder Dodero



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Image from Google Maps is by Wuera Null



Google Street View



Source of information: sanluis.eluniversal.com.mx. The website has some good pictures of the giant hands.



Giant Wooden Hand, Maven Hotel, Denver, CO, USA.


A large 3-metre (10-foot) wooden hand hangs from the ceiling of the hotel lobby. The hand, an artwork by Colorado Springs' artist Andrew Ramiro Tirado, weighs about 227 kg (500 lbs).




Image from Google Maps is by Susan Peele



Google Street View



Source of information: denver.org



Large Hands Fountain, Holiday World, Santa Claus, IN, USA.


This fountain with large hands, known as the Applause Fountain, commemorates Holiday World winning the international "Applause Award", an industry award given out every two years to the best amusement parks world wide. The hands are the larger replica of the actual trophy won by them.




Image from Flickr is by Heather Kendrick. Permission to use the image is thankfully acknowledged.



Google Street View



Source of information: Flickr / Wikipedia



Pair of Hands, Old School Gallery, El Morro, NM, USA.



Image from Google Maps is by Letisha Bustamante



Google Street View



Giant Robotic Hand, Johnson City, TX, USA.


A 30-foot-tall, stainless steel robotic hand at the Science & Art Park, Science Mill, Johnson City. It is made of more than 500 stainless steel triangles, and its fingers can be moved from a remote console.



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Image from Google Maps is by Casey Scalf



Google Street View



Source of info: sciencemill.org



Hook 'Em Horns Tree, Austin, TX, USA.


A stump of a dead tree on a private property on Oak Knoll Drive was converted into a sculpture of "Hook 'em Horns", the hand signal of the University of Texas at Austin. About 2.2-metre (7.2-foot) tall sculpture was created by local artist Doug Moreland.



The sculpture created in November 2013 was visible in Google Street View until April 2019. However, it is missing in the imagery for March 2022. Its fate is unknown. The placemarker on Google Maps says that it is permanently closed.




Image from Google Maps is by Just Bojack



Google Street View (April 2019)



Source of information: khou.com



Le Pouce de César, Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden, Washington (DC), USA.


Le Pouce (The Thumb) is a classic sculpture by the famous sculptor César Baldaccini. Modelled after his own thumb, it depicts, in detail, the fingerprint and skin wrinkles. Several replicas of this famous sculpture have been made and are installed at various locations around the world.



This smaller version (88 cm) is perhaps the smallest of all the replicas of the famous Thumb of César. It was installed in 1965 in the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden.




Image from Flickr is by bnilsen



Google Maps The sculpture is not visible in Google Maps or Google Street View imagery. Its likely location, based on sculpture.dittwald.com, has been marked.



Source: French Wikipedia



Two Intertwined Hands, La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.


A tribute to Ana Goitia de Cafiero, a social worker and wife of Antonio Cafiero, former governor of Buenos Aires Province. Located on a promenade at Ave. 56, Calle 6, the two intertwined hands symbolise her limitless dedication to those in need.



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Image from Flickr is by nomenombres



Google Street View



Wooden Hand Holding A Flaming Torch, Colón, Argentina.


Called "Flame of Hope", the sculpture is located in front of the Biblioteca Fiat Lux on 12 de Abril Street and was installed in May 2010 on the occasion of the bicentennial of the Argentine Republic.




Image from Google Maps is by Carlos Antonio Alonso Gimenez



Google Street View



Source: mapio.net



Cave of the Hands, Santa Cruz, Argentina.


Cueva de las Manos (English: Cave of the Hands) is located at the foot of a terraced cliff within the Pinturas River Canyon in the province of Santa Cruz, Argentina.



The cave is adorned with large numbers of stencilled hands on the rock walls in diverse arrangements. It is estimated that these hand imprints were created between the years 7,300 BC and 700 AD.




Image from Flickr is by David Wood




Image from Flickr is by Diego Tirira




Image from Flickr is by Diego Tirira




Image from Wikimedia Commons is by LuigiStudio



Google Street View



Source of information: Wikipedia



Hand Sculptures at Jardim das Esculturas, São João dos Mellos, RS, Brazil.


The Sculpture Garden in the rural area of Júlio de Castilhos, RS, Brazil, spanning 70,000 square metres, is one of the largest sculpture parks in Latin America. Established in 2005 by owner and sculptor Rogério Bertoldo, it showcases over 700 outdoor works, including hand sculptures. Remarkably, the entire collection was created by Bertoldo himself.




Image from Google Maps is by Roberto Lima de Halluli




Image from Google Maps is by Lisandro Curto




Image from Google Maps is by Rosane Silva vieira




Image from Google Maps is by J. Fauri




Image from Google Maps is by Rosane Krug




Image from Google Maps is by J. Fauri


Image from Google Maps is by Viro Francisco Frantz




Image from Google Maps is by Ivan Bachmann




Image from Google Maps is by J. Fauri



A 6-finger hand

Image Source: Google Street View (Photosphere) by Gabriel oestreich. This Photosphere shows some more hands.



Google Maps



Source of information: https://www.viagensecaminhos.com/jardim-das-esculturas/



Giant Hands along the Roads to Sculpture Garden, RS, Brazil.


The Sculpture Garden in the rural area of Júlio de Castilhos, RS, Brazil, is one of the largest sculpture parks in Latin America. The roads leading to the Sculpture Garden are dotted with several giant hands as waymarkers. These hands, like the other sculptures in the Sculpture Garden, are the artwork of sculptor Rogério Bertoldo, who is also the owner of the Sculpture Garden.



10.6 km marker on the Nova Palma road to the Sculpture Garden.
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Image Source: Google Street View



9.2 km marker on the road from Nova Palma to the Sculpture Garden.
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Image Source: Google Street View



8.3 km marker on the road from Nova Palma to the Sculpture Garden.
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Image Source: Google Street View



7.3 km marker on the road from Nova Palma to the Sculpture Garden.
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Image Source: Google Street View



6.7 km marker on the road from Nova Palma to the Sculpture Garden.
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Image Source: Google Street View



5.6 km marker on the road from Nova Palma to the Sculpture Garden.
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Image Source: Google Street View



5 km marker on the road from Nova Palma to the Sculpture Garden.
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Image Source: Google Street View



3.6 km marker on the road from Nova Palma to the Sculpture Garden.
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Image Source: Google Street View



3.2 km marker on the road from Nova Palma to the Sculpture Garden.
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Image Source: Google Street View



1.2 km marker on the road from Nova Palma to the Sculpture Garden.
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Image Source: Google Street View



6.6 km marker on the road from Ivora to the Sculpture Garden.
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Image Source: Google Street View



2.2 km marker on the road from Ivora to the Sculpture Garden. This is one of the two hands at this location.
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Image Source: Google Street View



2.2 km marker on the road from Ivora to the Sculpture Garden. This is the second hand at this location.
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Image Source: Google Street View



Giant Hands Supporting the Roof and Pillars of Hotel Lobby, Bogotá, Colombia.


Decorative artwork at AC Hotel Bogotá Zona T, Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Colombia.



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The original, larger image is available at this link.



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Image from Google Maps is by Jaime “Jimmy” Moreno



Few more hand supports can be seen in Google Street View.



Giant's Hand Viewpoint, Gigante, Huila, Colombia.


Mirador La Mano del Gigante (English:Giant's Hand Viewpoint), a viewpoint designed as a giant hand near the town of Gigante, Huila, Colombia. A real coincidence is that the town itself is named Gigante, meaning giant.



In 2020, the name of the area where the hand is located was changed to Montaña La Mano del Gigante, meaning Giant's Hand Mountain.




Image from Google Maps is by Andres Felipe Aponte Galvis



Google Street View



Source of information: huilamagnifica.com



Giant Hand Holding A Huge Sphere, Tocancipá, Colombia.


Monumento la Mano de Dios (Hand of God Monument) is a huge hand monument in the Jaime Duque Theme Park in Tocancipá, Cundinamarca Columbia.



The sculpture stands 38 meters tall, and the copper sphere has a diameter of 25 meters. The total weight, including the foundation, is 1250 tons.




Image from Google Maps is by Jonnathan Vargas



Google Street View



Source of information: es.wikipedia.org



Hand Pointing to Sky, Quesada, Alajuela, Costa Rica.


La Mano de Dios (Hand of God) is a 12-metre-high monument to the six victims of a private aircraft, a Piper PA-23 Aztec, that crashed here on May 29, 1971.




Image from Google Maps is by Javier Calderon



Google Maps. It is not visible in Google Earth imagery or in Google Street View, but is placemarked in Google Maps.



Source of information: sancarlosdigital.com



Giant Hands at Nosara Beach Hotel, Nosara, Costa Rica.


An amusing piece of decorative architecture at the hotel is a giant hand plucking the tall spire of the hotel.




Image from Google Maps is by Dagmar Dolatschko



The zoomed view of the hand can be seen the Facebook page of the Nosara Beach Hotel.



Google Street View



There is another large hand at Nosara Beach Hotel, a hand hanging from the ceiling, probably the ceiling of one of the rotundas at the hotel.




Image copied from needpix.com is by Quadinsan.



Google Street View is not available. However, it can be seen in this Google Maps photo.





Credits:


I am thankful to all the artists/photographers/organisations who gave me permission to use images from their websites. Individual acknowledgments are given under the relevant images.



I also thank all the Travel Guides of Google Maps whose photos, uploaded to Google Maps, have been used in this collection. Wherever possible, I normally send individual acknowledgments to all those whose images I use in my posts. Unfortunately, there is no way I can contact the Travel Guides of Google Maps. It was possible until Panoramio and Picassaweb were available, however, with their demise, I am unable to send acknowledgements individually.



I am also thankful to my fellow members of the Google Earth Community Forum, namely dagger66, hhgygy, jesusmx, johnluke, krenek, syzygy, walter_v_r, and willi1. They not only informed me about the many hands included here but also helped me find the locations of quite a few of these hands.



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