I am sure we all remember with fondness the days of our youth filling little colored buckets with sand to build sandcastles – until our big brothers (or the school bullies) came along and destroyed them! What fun. Some people were fortunate enough to not have their castles ruined and with all the practice eventually developed a great artistic skill using sand as their medium. This is the top 20 amazing sandcastles!
Sandcastle 20
Sandcastle 19
Sandcastle 18
Sandcastle 17
Sandcastle 16
Sandcastle 15
Sandcastle 14
Sandcastle 13
Sandcastle 12
Sandcastle 11
Sandcastle 10
Sandcastle 9
Sandcastle 8
Sandcastle 7
Sandcastle 6
Sandcastle 5
Sandcastle 4
Sandcastle 3
Sandcastle 2
Sandcastle 1
as i was going through these, i was like "what the hell could be #1?"
then i saw #1. woah.
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Very nice!
But see…..sand doesn't do that!
How do they do that?
It blows my mind!
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Sand castle 6 is very boring. Basically looks like the ones I see 10 year olds and their parents make all the time at the shore.
Kathryn: geez – it is *****loads better than anything I ever made! You must live in a town full of artists! Thanks for the comment anyway.
very nice list- this is why i love listverse
kathryn- recheck #6, its not my fave, but look at the detail in the bricks, very impressive methinks
All I could ever make is a hole . . . But I will say that it was a damn fine hole!
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I would say that number 4 was THE most detailed!! I mean look at the tree!! And the cliffs!!
I think #8 is my favorite, it looks so flowy and surreal, I would love to relax in a place like that
I love the detail in #20, the screaming face coming through the fence is insane. Reminds me of a frightening dream I once had
i was there at the making of castle 13!!!
i was visiting my aunt and there was a massive commotion and my aunt said that someone’s makind a sandcastle but i never saw the aftermath until now!!!
it has an amazing and stunning detail :O
Mystern: At least you can make a hole! Mine always cave in…
I have no idea why… I use wet sand for support…
Hah I just go down to ocean city, NJ. People live there obviously so they must just have lots of practice. But yeah, I have seen some pretty need sandcastles like number 6 fairly often while on vacation. My favourite is number 17.
I wish I were a hermit crab so I could live in one of those!
That is definitely talent… I could never get the right consistency and the sand would fall apart…
Mystern: Holes are darn fun to dig!! LOL
I can do that but I don’t wanna…
I’d kick them over…
Joni: bully!
Its so nice to see such fabolous manmade sandcastles!
whoa sandcastle 4 is my fav i think
LOL @ Joni! This is why we repress our rage…hahaha
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Number 4 is pretty dope! Simple but look at that tree!!
Can you imagine how *****ed someone is when a kid knocks these down, id kill that kid, not really, but id beat the ***** out of him.
I quite like #6. It was the one that caught my eye as I looked through them all.I could never make sandcastles. Instead we used to find some poor kid (not a stranger though) and we’d bury them up to their necks in sand and pack the sand down so that they couldn’t get out on their own. We wouldn’t leave them that way for long, but I guess we were pretty mean kids!
Wooooow… I heart art.
2 and 1 rival professional mason jobs
These are awesome! I wonder if #17 used a mold for the trees, because otherwise it just looks painstaking…
It would be funny if it started raining cats and dogs as soon as they finished these. hahaha
You gotta love the fist comment.
Can you imagine if you were in a sand castle contest and you worked your butt off on # 6 and you were anxiously waiting for Judge Kathryn to get to your castle and you heard “It’s very boring and basically looks like the ones I see 10 year olds and their parents make all the time at the shore.
I have to say, #2 is by far my favorite! Great list Jamie!
I really liked the list, interesting to see how much free time people have. If I didn’t have school, I would probably be able to spend hours on end making sandcastles. I doubt they’d look even half as good but you get the point. Number 5 is fenced off, but what if it rains?
damn. i wish i had some talent like that. i can’t even walk across sand without burning my feet and complaining that i hate the ocean.
come to think of it…
i’d bet it’s pretty easy. it’s probably just one huuuuge mold. cheaters.
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Sandcastle 14 is a KICK ASS sandcastle…
Definately 4. The tree alone takes the cake.
#2 is definitely my favourite. I can’t believe that her head doesn’t just fall off.
Look very carefully at #’s 18 and 7. 7 is essentially a close up of 19, but it has a few toys placed in it.
Not that they aren’t absolutely beautiful. I’d still keep the photos up, they’re just essentially the same thing.
Great list…
Thanks for including a sandcastle from Boracay Island (#13 and quite possibly #14). Folks in that island paradise create awesome sand sculptures daily starting in the mid-late afternoon. You can walk along the beach and view the day’s sculptures lit by oil lamps every night…Must be the time of day or angle of the shot but the sand in Boracay is powdery white…
Number 20 is my favorite. The face is freaking sweet.
Do they add anything to these besides water or is it just the natural stuff.
#4 with the craggy rocks and those trees is awesome.
These are pretty cool. I like seeing the different colors of the sand. I wouldn’t have the patience for this. It would be so fun destroying these.
I really like 3, 8, 14, and 17 probably from the great photography. Thanks for this list. It’s very creative and the beach photos are a nice change in the middle of winter!
Reminds me of the song,Castles Made of Sand by Jimi Hendrix.
Have a great weekend! Time to party!
#1 is awesome
Legitimate sandcastles are made on a beach. Some of these should not count
I think #20 is awesome! How did they get that face to look like it was coming thru the grate?
the best I could ever do is bury a foot in wet sand and very carefully pull it out. Made a crapload of cities by doing it over and over. Rudimentary, but I could get them up to about three feet (almost a meter…ahem).
Jimbo…i think by definition, a legitimate sandcastle is just made of sand.
number 20 is my favorite.
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Now I wanna see a list of Top 20 fights arising due to kicking over a sand castle!!
I absolutely LOVE number 20, definitely my favorite. I kept scrolling through the list looking and thinking there had to have been a mistake because number 20 should rank much higher; then I saw the top five and had to admit that my bias bit me in the butt this time. Number one is just awesome. I mean really, I didn't know that stuff like THIS is possible. Great list. It's stuff like this that keeps me coming back.
Oh, and yeah, I've been seeing that comment for a bit now, about paying the bills. It never ceases to put a smile on my face. Keep them coming man!
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#18 and #13 are the only ones that tell us where they are from. Can you post where they are from?
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I love sandcastles. they are so awesome. I remember when I was in high school, there was a sand castle built in the middle of the mall. I was so huge. I would put it in lines with the size of #1. It had so much detail and local lore added to it. (Such as South Bay Bessie and Wally Walleye and Snoopy). It was excellent.
3 cheers for the Boracay sandcastle!
Oh to have the patience of Job….
Wow I am always so amazed when I see how talented some people can be, that is because I don’t have a lick of artistic talent. I would soooooo love to have a tenth of what these people have!!!
I like them all but I really like #12 and would love to live in a place like that, :} with all the walkways and stairways connecting the different parts of the town with the little church at the top. It is just wonderful!!
The detail is so amazing. How smooth it is in parts like the roofs of the turrets and the walkways and then the detail of the brick and the gate guarding the entrance to the little town.
AMAZING!!
P.S. I laughed out really really loudly when I saw the paying the bills comment. you have a great sense of humor JFrater.
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holy crap. that is amazing. artists are amazing with how they can visualize what can be made out of raw material.
although, i imagine they would be a raging lunatic if some random frisbee took out a parapet or something.
#4 Not the biggest but the detail is astounding. When I was a kid, I always had the special pail that made it look acceptable. I was a failure a sad castles but I loved to try.