Here Are 14 of China's Finest World Monument Replicas

  • Laborers work on scaffolding near a full-scale replica of the Sphinx at an unfinished movie and animation theme park in Chuzhou, Anhui province.
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  • A Chinese worker rides past statues modeled on the famous Easter Island "Moai" in the Central Business District of Beijing.
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  • Two boys play-fight with swords in front of the mini replica of the United States Capitol in Beijing World Park.
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  • Visitors walk past a copy of Mount Rushmore at a park in Chongqing.
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  • A man holds up a water bottle to mimic a replica of the Statue of Liberty near replicas of the New York skyline at the World Park in Beijing.
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  • Workers build pavement outside a replica of the Roman Colosseum at Fisherman's Wharf in Macau.
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  • Chinese workers walk past a 1:4 scale mini leaning tower of Pisa in Shanghai.
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  • Pedestrians walk past a half-sized replica of the Eiffel Tower at Tianducheng, a small Chinese community built to imitate Paris, in Hangzhou city, Zhejiang province.
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  • Chinese security personnel wait for guests at a mansion on the edge of Beijing modeled after the baroque 17th century Chateau de Maisons-Laffitte in France.
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  • A motorcyclist rides past a 10-metre-high miniature replica of the Arc de Triomphe monument in Paris, in Jiangyan, Jiangsu province.
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  • A replica of Stonehenge stands in a park beside a housing project in Hefei, Anhui province.
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  • A woman poses for a selfie in front of a miniature replica of London's Houses of Parliament, at a theme park called "Window Of The World" in Shenzhen, Guangdong province.
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  • A view of the cloned London Bridge in Suzhou, Jiangsu province.
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  • Visitors to Beijing's World Park sit in front of a replica of the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge.
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By Jen Tse and TIME Photo

A Chinese statue of an oil bubble in Karamay, Xinjiang province caused a stir recently for bearing an uncanny resemblance to the reflective, bean-shaped Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago by Anish Kapoor.

But the 2006 artwork is far from the only iconic monument knocked off by Chinese developers. The country can boast more replicas of famous world monuments than Las Vegas, allowing residents to feel like world travelers without ever setting foot outside the nation’s borders.

See photos of the jewels of the country’s ‘duplitecture’ above.

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