China brings the world to its doorstep, with scale replicas of famous tourist destinations.

A replica of the Sydney Harbour Bridge next a replica of the Sydney Opera House in Beijing.

A farmer carrying a rake walks down a dirt road past a replica of the Eiffel Tower at the Tianducheng development in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Tianducheng, developed by Zhejiang Guangsha Co. Ltd., started construction in 2007 and was known as a knockoff of Paris with a scaled replica of the Eiffel Tower standing at 108 metres

A full-scale replica of the Sphinx, part of an unfinished theme park that will also accommodate the production of movies, television shows and animation, on the outskirts of Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, China.

A Chinese worker walks past a replica of the leaning Tower of Pisa in Shanghai. The financial hub of Shanghai in eastern China will host a

A visitor takes photographs of a replica of the White House at Beijing World Park, one of the three designated

A motorcyclist rides past a 10-metre-high miniature replica of the Arc de Triomphe monument in Paris, in Jiangyan, Jiangsu province.

A replica of the Roman Colosseum in Macau.

Replicas of the Moai statues on Easter Island, at a business district in Beijing.

A cleaner works in front of a building that makes up the luxurious Chateau Laffitte Hotel, an imitation of the 1650 Chateau Maisons-Laffitte by the French architect Francois Mansart, located on the outskirts of Beijing.

A visitor takes a photograph of a replica of the Karnak Temple in Egypt, at the abandoned Wanguo park in Wuhan, Hubei province.