Built using 103,987 toothpicks, standing nine feet tall, eight feet wide and two and a half feet deep, this is the most intricate model of its kind in the world. Designed as an impression of all that is famous in the city of San Francisco, it was constructed over 36 years as a labour of love by 51-year old supermarket worker Scott Francis Weaver. Acting as an autobiographical tour of important moments in his own life in San Francisco as well as a mix of famous landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge, the sculpture took up 3,019 hours or 126 days of Scott's life...

Credit : Scott Weaver / Barcroft USA