Imagine a skyscraper of these dimensions- forty feet tall, eighteen feet deep and ten feet wide. Yes, a skyscraper. Newby-McMahon Building in Texas, United States is the world's smallest skyscraper. If you think its specifications is surprising, wait till you read the story behind this building!

The original Newby building was a one-storey brick office built in 1906. In 1919, its tenant, J.D McMahon proposed to build a high-rise annex and collected around $3 million for doing the same. He provided a blueprint which depicted a building 480 'inches' tall. He did not particularly specify that the building's scale was measured not in feet, but in inches. The investors, too, did not notice the double tick marks in the blueprint before advancing the money.

When the "skyscraper" was nearly complete the investors realized that they had, in fact, been tricked. They took McMahon to court. However, since McMahon had listed the building's correct height on the blueprint in inches (with the double tick marks), the court upheld the construction deal.

Today, the 4-storey building exists as a tourist attraction with an antique dealership shop on the ground floor and an artist's studio upstairs.