1. Fu Gang Building (15,140 tons)

When it comes to big moves, it's only a matter of time before a record is broken. The current record holder in the book of Guinness World Records for heaviest structure moved intact is a building in China. The Fu Gang building weighs in at 15,140 tons, or 33.3 million pounds. It had to be moved over about 118 feet (36 meters), and it took 11 days to move it [source: Guinness World Records]. As this writer doesn't speak Chinese and all of the research written on this building is in Chinese, it's difficult for her to tell you much else about this historic move. So let's just take a moment to appreciate again that the Chinese moved a building that weighed 15,140 tons. How long will it take to break the record? The big moves on this list show that it's only a matter of time and determination.

Wonder how they celebrated? The Fairmount Hotel in San Antonio, Texas, a previous record holder for heaviest building moved, had to cross the Market Street bridge to reach its new home. In Las Vegas, the odds were 7-to-1 that the hotel would make it to the other side. The bridge was reinforced, but even so, the mover put three bottles of beer on a ledge below the bridge. If the bottles broke, it would warn the crews that the bridge was sagging too much. All three things made it successfully through the move -- the hotel, the bridge and the beer [source: Clarke].

To learn about more feats of structural moving, take a look at the links on the next page.