crazyhorse.org

Advantages: It's stunningly, awe-inspiringly, neck-achingly huge
Disadvantages: It's located in South Dakota, so we only have the website to drool over

When asked, ‘Where are your lands now?’, the Lakota Sioux warrior and hero Crazy Horse replied, ‘My lands are where my dead lie buried’. But let’s rewind… Anybody remember Norris McWhirter? Roy Castle’s fact-spouting sidekick on the classic TV show, ‘Record Breakers’? I do, and not just for his tasty line in lambswool sweaters. When a kid in the audience asked him, ‘What’s the biggest statue in the whole wide world?’, McWhirter had an immediate ...
...biggest statue in the world is a jaw-dropping 52 metres tall and is located in the Soviet Union. Type ‘Motherland statue’ into google and gasp at the pictures. But McWhirter went one step further, and told us about a sculpting project the like of which the world had never seen before – the Crazy Horse monument in South Dakota. It was unfinished then, and it’s unfinished now. But my imagination was captured by the description of this truly knee-tremblingly ... Read review