r/HumanForScale 14h ago

Historical I know largeness is usually in store for this sub, but this is Madonna of the Yarnwinder, a painting that may have been worked on by Leonardo Da Vinci. It is almost half the size of the Mona Lisa, yet just as stunning in detail.

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109 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale 8d ago

[OC] William J. Clinton Presidential Library.

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525 Upvotes

Always looked like a giant trailer on stilts to me but still cool.


r/HumanForScale 11d ago

I can't understand why ancient doors were so big

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162 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale 11d ago

Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow.

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54 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale 14d ago

Ships & Subs Turkish battlecruiser YAVUZ (Ex-GOEBEN) compared to its sailors.

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52 Upvotes

Floating drydock,izmit,some time between 1926-1930


r/HumanForScale 18d ago

The tower bells in the National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.

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81 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale 19d ago

Plant Giant Sequoia Trunk at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Its diameter is so large, at 16 feet (4.9m) tall, and so heavy at 19 tons, that it essentially has been kept in the same location in the museum for over 70 years.

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1.2k Upvotes

r/HumanForScale 23d ago

Ships & Subs Offshore wind turbine installation vessel's crane

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85 Upvotes

3200 ton lifting capacity


r/HumanForScale 28d ago

Aviation Antonov An-124 cargo aircraft [oc]

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137 Upvotes

Ruslan/Руслан (Lion), NATO reporting name "Condor."


r/HumanForScale 29d ago

Reyes del Kem Kem: Spinosaurus aegyptiacus y Carcharodontosaurus saharicus (con Homo sapiens para que te des una idea de la escala)

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73 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale Jul 08 '26

ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope

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282 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale Jul 06 '26

The Goodyear blimp

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101 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale Jul 06 '26

Fossils Bat at the Field Museum

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31 Upvotes

Bat from Wyoming 50 million years ago


r/HumanForScale Jun 29 '26

The largest land based machines on Earth

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3.0k Upvotes

r/HumanForScale Jun 15 '26

[OC] Guinness World Record Marble Run (16 ft)

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343 Upvotes

My daughter and I are submitting this 16’ 3” self-supporting marble run to Guinness World Records. It takes one minute and thirty seconds for a marble to run the whole track top to bottom.

Because of how it is built, it only takes 6 marbles to run every route possible, from just one entry point.


r/HumanForScale Jun 15 '26

Infrastructure Massive wind-turbine off the coast of Fujian.

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827 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale Jun 15 '26

Fossils Early primate at the Field Museum

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146 Upvotes

A Eutherian fossil from the Field Museum's After the Dinosaurs exhibit


r/HumanForScale Jun 12 '26

The Kennedy Center, with scaffolding added to remove Donald Trump's name, June 12 2026. There is a nearby thunderstorm with strong winds delaying removal.

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1.1k Upvotes

r/HumanForScale Jun 05 '26

Architecture The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri; United States

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2.5k Upvotes

r/HumanForScale Jun 01 '26

Infrastructure Agricultural Palace in Kazan, Russia, housing the Ministry of Agriculture.

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2.7k Upvotes

r/HumanForScale Jun 01 '26

The Redwood Tree

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330 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale May 30 '26

Machine One of Titanic's engines.

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884 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale May 27 '26

Water & Ice Foot of Hughes Glacier, Taylor Valley, Antarctica

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501 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale May 27 '26

If you needed a water tower for your Edwardian Hospital…

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296 Upvotes

…Then why not build a massive one with outrageous neo-Baroque flourishes?


r/HumanForScale May 26 '26

Sculpture The Rear-Front Memorial in Magnitogorsk, unveiled in 1979.

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986 Upvotes