Editor's note: To some extent, copycatting is unavoidable on the road to innovation. However if it is excessive, it can become bizarre. In the last few decades, architecture firms in China have started to copy iconic buildings and even whole cities from other countries. Here are some of the strangest copycat monuments. You will definitely be shocked by these replicas of world well-known landmarks representing different cultures.

A copy of Egypt's ancient mythological icon -- the Sphinx -- was recently found sitting in Shijiazhuang in China's northern Hebei Province. The Shijiazhuang Sphinx is around 60 meters long and 20 meters high, the exact size of the original masterwork perched on the western bank of the Nile River. It is surrounded by Inner Mongolian tents, wooden corridors and egg pancake stalls, giving the spot extra Chinese characteristics.

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