Toothpick City – Our World in Toothpicks

Stan Munro has spent the last six years of his life recreating some of the world’s most important landmarks out of nothing else but toothpicks. Most people use them to get rid of food scraps from between their teeth, but 38-year-old Stan Munro, a former television host, uses them to create wooden works of art. Stan takes between one day and six months to glue together 1:164 scale models of some of the most impressive structures on Earth. In order to create his amazing Toothpick City, Stan Munro has so far used six million toothpicks and 172 liters of glue, but his work is far from over. Right now he is working on a toothpick replica of Angkor Wat, the most complex structure he has ever had to build. All his models are on display at the Museum of Science and Technology, in Syracuse, New York. Photos by SOLENT NEWS & PHOTO AGENCY via Telegraph.co.uk Here are some of his most incredible-looking toothpick creations: toothpick-city toothpick-city2 Angkor Wat, a work in progress toothpick-city3 The Sydney Opera House in Australia toothpick-city4 The Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey toothpick-city5 St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City toothpick-city6 The Chrysler Building, Petronas Towers, Taipei 101, The Woolworth Building and the Met Life Tower toothpick-city7 The Aspire Tower in Doha, Qatar toothpick-city8 The Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth toothpick-city9 St Peter’s Square, Vatican City toothpick-city10 The al-Haram mosque in Mecca toothpick-city11 The Taj Mahal toothpick-city12 Tower Bridge, London toothpick-city13 The Brooklyn Bridge and Big Ben toothpick-city14 the Cutty Sark

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