Window of the World Ticket Office

This guide to the Window of the World Ticket Office in Shenzhen returns to June 18, 1994, when people lined up here to buy something unusual for the era: an afternoon with the entire world. It covers the more than one hundred and thirty scale replicas beyond these gates, built at a time when international travel was out of reach for most Chinese citizens. Beyond the gates, forty-eight hectares hold replicas of the Colosseum, the Taj Mahal, and dozens more, all reached from this same queue.