The tallest cookie tower measured 1.83 m (6 ft 1/8 in) tall and was constructed by the Girl Scouts of Nassau County (USA) at the Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, New York, USA, on 9 January 2010. 22,800 cookies were used to build the tower. 60 girl scouts participated in shifts of 2 hours.
The tallest cooked sugar sculpture made in 11 hours measures 3.91 m (12 ft 10.4 in) and was made by Alain Roby (France) at Mall of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA on 21 April 2006 during the filming of Guinness World Records week for the Food Network channel. The sculpture was created to resemble the John Hancock building in Chicago.
The Peking Acrobats, of Peking, China, managed to create a chair stack 6.4 m (21 ft) high, with six people stacked onto seven chairs, holding a handstand for a full five seconds, on the set of Guinness World Records: Primetime , in Los Angeles, California, USA on 16 October 1999.
The tallest house of cards made of plexiglas panels measures 3.97 m (13 ft) and was constructed by Walter Moshammer (Austria) on the set of Lo Show Dei Record, in Milan, Italy, on 16 March 2011.
The world’s tallest herba cistanches (Cistanche deserticola) measured 1.95m (6 ft 4 in) on 15 August 2006. It was collected from the desert of Inner Mongolia, China, by Yongmao Chen and identified by the College of Life Sciences of the Inner Mongolia University, China.
Luuk Broos (Netherlands) and his team created a champagne fountain consisting of 43,680 glasses, forming 63 storeys, at the Shopping Center Wijnegem, Belgium, on 25 January 2008.
The tallest dandelion measured 177.8 cm (70 in) and was found by Jo Riding and Joey Fusco (both Canada) in Ontario, Canada. The dandelion was measured on 12 September 2011. The dandelion was found on 4 August 2011 and was unofficially measured at 76 in. The dandelion was then officially measured by NutriLawn and The Weed Man on 12 September 2011 when it had dried out and was measured as 70 in.
William Blair (UK) has created and successfully ridden a 3.28 m (10 ft 9.1 in) tall hydrofoil chair behind a motorboat.
On 04 January 2010, the Burj Khalifa, developed by Emaar Properties (“Khalifa Tower”; architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP) in Dubai, UAE, topped out at a record breaking 828 m (2,716.5 ft) making it the tallest man-made structure.
The tallest manmade leaning tower is the Montreal Olympic Stadium Tower, Montreal, Canada, which measures 165 m (541 ft 4.05 in) and has a curved angle of 45 degrees. Completed in 1987, the tower is designed to support 75% of the weight of the roof of the main building. A funicular built on two levels rides the tower up the Observatory, located on the top three floors and where a panoramic view stretching up to 80 km in every direction is offered. Each ascension takes
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