VENICE, California, United States--Constructed on a steel frame, the World's Largest Binoculars actually serve as the Chiat-Day Building's parking garage entrance in Venice, Los Angeles County, California; standing over 44 feet tall and are 18 feet deep, set into the building's walls, they set the world record for being the World's Largest Binoculars Sculpture, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

"Serving as the access point to the organic, tree-like Gehry building for both cars and pedestrians is a giant set of binoculars resting on their lenses, the Atlas Obscura reports.

"The binoculars, which were designed by noted “giant random object” artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, create an arch with the lens firmly planted on each side of the entrance way to what was once an ad agency, and is part of roughly 100,000 square feet of offices leased by Google."

"Originally known as the Chiat/Day Building, the Binoculars Building fits in well with Google’s penchant for whimsical, creative structures for their offices. And of course, the cachet that comes with having been designed by Frank Gehry doesn’t hurt."

Statement by the Artists

"The mimetic architecture this suggested has something of a tradition in southern California, and the precedent of imagining functional objects as buildings was well established in Claes' Colossal Monument drawings of the mid-1960s but never turned into a feasible commission.  says Oldenberg/vanBruggen project pages.

"Two tall unusually shaped rooms, created by following the curves of the binoculars, opened onto a conference room, the ceiling of which was covered with a version of Gehry's signature snake form. The two curved rooms were intended to serve as places of retreat. Each was furnished with a huge elongated light bulb of resined cloth, suspended from the ceiling, softly glowing, as in comic-strip representations, the sign of a luminous idea."

TESTIMONIALS from Yelp

"This is definitely not my favorite Frank Gehry building, but it's still architecturally interesting and famous. And if you're in Venice, absolutely drive down Main street and see this. It's stunning. As it is now a Google building, if you're taking pictures of this wonder of architecture, security WILL come out to question you."

"Good for pulling over, snapping a photo, and then moving along."

"The Binocular Building is actually Google's Venice Campus. It has a large sculpture of a Binocular in front of the building. The Binocular is actually an entrance to an underground parking garage. The whole campus takes up the whole block. Unfortunately, you can't tour the inside unless you know someone who works there."

"t's a pretty impressive piece. I love big roadside attractions and this one is pretty cool!"

World's Largest Binoculars Sculpture

Address: 340 Main St, Los Angeles, California, 90291, United States

Coordinates: 33.99525°N 118.477083°W

Directions: From downtown L.A., take Interstate 10 west all the way to Santa Monica. Then exit the freeway at Exit 1A, turning your car rental left onto 4th Street. Drive 1.4 miles, then turn right onto Rose Avenue. Take the 3rd turn on your left and you'll be on Main Street, in front of the Big Binoculars Building!