North Dakota is home to something that is, quite frankly, hard to comprehend unless you’ve seen it in person. This structure was once the tallest manmade structure in the entire world and is still the tallest structure in the entire western hemisphere. This creation surpasses the height of pretty much any famous building you can think of, and it’s sitting out in the middle of nowhere. Don’t believe us? Take a look for yourself:

Just outside the tiny town of Blanchard, North Dakota (population 26), is the tallest structure in not only America but the entire western hemisphere.
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From a distance, it may just look like your typical radio or TV mast, but as you get close you realize just how insanely tall it really is.
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This towering structure is the KVLY-TV mast, and it was once the tallest manmade structure in the entire world before being surpassed by the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai.
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The mast was built to broadcast the KVLY news station you have likely seen on TV here in North Dakota, and it was originally built in 1963.
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The mast is 2,063 feet tall. To put it into some perspective, that is nearly double the height of the Empire State Building. Just imagine two of those stacked on top of each other, and you have the KVLY-TV mast.
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To keep this absolutely staggeringly tall structure in place, huge anchors and lengthy guy-wires are kept in place.
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This graph shows the KVLY-TV mast in comparison to the three buildings that have surpassed it in height in the last decade — before that, for nearly half a century, it was the tallest in the world and is still the tallest on this side of the world.
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The KVLY-TV mast is hard to truly appreciate without seeing it in person, considering its immense height. You can see it about three miles west of Blanchard, ND.

Had you known that North Dakota contained the tallest structure in the western hemisphere before? The Peace Garden State is full of surprises that many people don’t realize. Click here for more crazy and interesting facts about the state!

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