Posted on 07/16/2025 9:44:31 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The Viimsi Shopping Center in the Estonian town of Haabneeme is famous for having a giant boulder square in the middle of it. There are many things one expects to find in a supermarket, but a giant rock is definitely not one of them. And yet, in one Estonian supermarket, a giant rock with a circumference of 22 meters and a height of roughly 6 meters (including the part buried in the ground) is one of the highlights of most people’s shopping trips. The rock has been there long before the owners of the shopping center drew up plans for their business venture – about 10,000 years, to be more precise – but they only discovered it when digging the foundation, in September of 2014. Workers initially intended to blow it to smithereens, but the locals opposed the plans, and it was later discovered that the giant boulder was actually an “erratic boulder” eligible for conservation status.
Finding another location for the shopping center wasn’t a viable option, as the company had already invested a lot of money into the project, so it was decided to build around the giant rock.
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Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_erratic
A glacial erratic is a glacially deposited rock differing from the type of rock native to the area in which it rests. Erratics, which take their name from the Latin word errare (”to wander”), are carried by glacial ice, often over distances of hundreds of kilometres. Erratics can range in size from pebbles to large boulders such as Big Rock (16,500 metric tons) in Alberta.
Where’s the barcode or QR code? Needs a pricecheck..............
For Those Going About the Rock, We Salute You
“... an “erratic boulder” eligible for conservation status.”
I didn’t realize glacial erractics are an endangered species! We’ll have to start laying out exclusion zones here in New England.
Just call it artwork.
I remember the Dick Van Dyke show had an episode where he had bought a house with a huge boulder in the basement. He tried to ignore it at his gatherings... pretty funny.
If this was New York, it would already be ruined with graffiti
Cleanup on isle three!
The Rock in the House in Fountain City, WI is no more because the owner got pissed after people stole the donation money and closed it to visitors.
https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2243
Kinda puts the “stone” in Estonia.
> Careful! Pretty soon you’ll have muslims flooding Estonia on Haj to worship it.
Only if you paint it black
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=flSmiIne-4k
I hope they carry over the shoulder boulder holders.
Right next to the Head and Shoulders
My ADHD kid would certainly be climbing on that thing if I took her there.
Relaxing episode of Ancient Aliens about the “balanced rock”
in North Salem, NY.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSAb-xI7pws
They weren’t certain of the composition of the giant rock so they took it for granite. 😉
Weed shops are hep to the idea aka magnet.
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