From a copy of London’s Tower Bridge to the famous Eiffel Tower in Paris, China has unveiled a number of bizarre “fake” landmarks over the years. English towns, Alpine villages, and even the ...

Over the past decade, following constant calls for protection by experts, China has started to understand the value of historic monuments, Tang says. “There’s an old Chinese proverb ...

Lanzhou hopes to put itself on the visitor map with the giant copies A huge replica sphinx has been built in China, the latest in a series of copies of the ancient Egyptian monument in the Middle ...

This surreal tableau is Thames Town in Songjiang, China. Its architecture is designed to imitate a classic British market town. It's just one of many copycat towns in China, where an economic boom ...

Tower Bridge is arguably one of the capital's most impressive and well-known landmarks. However, a replica of the bridge exists in China — and it's twice the size. The structure, which spans a ...

All of these buildings serve as monuments to what the Communist Party sees as China’s future, the future of a global power and a continuation of the heritage of centuries.

Exploring cultural heritage and its relationship to modern life, each of the subsequent projects were designed to rethink the potential of contemporary memorials and monuments in China.

Here are a few of our favorite incredibly strange monuments that could only exist in China . . . or maybe the American midwest. But we’ll save the latter for another day. For now, enjoy this ...