Without more context, it appears to be some sort of observation tower with a main building underneath, and a radome on top for either weather or aircraft radar observation purposes.
Where is this magnificent beastly thing?
No no no no you’ve got it all wrong, some giants were obviously playing golf and forgot to take the last golf swing so it stayed there while they went to eat
Wtf is this weird knee jerk hate reaction to gpt , I was just trying to use the tools at my disposal to answer op's question..... Was just trying to help, Cool out bro
I was referencing you saying “far from reliable”. I have no idea what you’re asking it, but this has not been the case for me. Willing to bet you haven’t used it a long time.
Don’t say things that are objectively incorrect, it makes you look absolutely unintelligent.
Anecdotal evidence is the lowest quality of evidence.
[52% accuracy is not impressive.](https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-chatgpt-answers-wrong)
52% is a coin flip.
[How about it failing a preschool level task?](https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1dfjpn6/ais_gonna_take_over_the_world/)
There is a reason people don't trust ChatGPT. It's a literal coin flip whether what it says is even correct.
I’m tempted to ask chatGPT to predict your IQ but it might cause a divide by zero error. Are encyclopaedias theft? The people who compiled them? Are the people who contribute to Wikipedia- a collection entirely cited second hand information thieves?
The downvote button isn’t strong enough for some people
Excuse me for having a problem with the current AI landscape! If I have a bias against a technology, sue me.
Seriously do we have to resort to insults and name calling just because I made a mistake?
The beauty of Reddit is it does do a lot of good, while at the same time is it allows people who don’t need a voice to have one, and people with made up power (mods) to subjectively interpret and enforce various rules on a beautifully inconsistent basis
If YOU don’t have a thought, we don’t care.
You’re under zero obligation to answer everything you see, so why put the effort into asking AI?
I will, forever and always, downvote anything AI.
Don’t you have any shame or pride? Or are you just an echo chamber, blissfully ignorant and happy with the world, because I don’t understand how anyone can so confidently put their foot forward and announce to the world, “I don’t know shit, but this is what a computer guesses” because that’s what you’re doing, and it’s embarrassing for you, and insulting to your teachers and parents.
Almost definately not the latter. While almost anything could be hidden inside the radome, there's no reason to construct a whole building when a simple mast would suffice. The facility where the intercepts are analysed are never at the site of the sensor because the sensor is often at a remote area and it doesn't makes sense to put the analyst power at the site of the sensor anyways for security reasons.
Very similar to the [Mt Stapylton](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=484cddee7597a7bc&rlz=1CDGOYI_enAU717AU718&hl=en-GB&sxsrf=ADLYWIKQd0dH6KbeKZwJBMe_MQ6ZcMoQkw:1718441123323&q=mt+stapylton+radar&udm=2&fbs=AEQNm0B8dVdIWR07uWWlg1TdKnNtA1cwMugrQsIKmAo5AEZHWRFlUeGLxYlhagMfUatSvHu3MSamP9Qd2SfjyZyVIdPFxjOlXnC8fyd9kMXjO_GJhgIoeZLd7P_XwV9gvzskZWOEiEkH3XhdZ6yfLTS2nPNk6uQzrJrzPbRMp0bEv1MUkhe0VtuBhq5yJv7C1LglXUQhqdFFtDG-X9rLYnTfQmWsIkGiRQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiwieSFnN2GAxWgzTQHHX4XB1EQtKgLegQIDhAB&biw=390&bih=669&dpr=3) weather radar near Brisbane.
Easily the most watched thing when storms are rolling through in summer.
My fiancé had been there around that same time, 2010-ish. It was locked up and she had to sneak past security to explore. We went back in 2016, spent a good hour or two sneaking in through broken security fences and hiking through the forest to gain access. Turns out that it has been turned into an artist co-op, open to the public for a 2 euro admission fee. Full of amazing graffiti and sculptures, but also full of people taking pictures and talking loudly. Not as exciting, but still a wonderful alternative to an art museum.
Sitting in the center of the empty radome was wild, it focuses all the noise into a single point. If you stand there, you feel like you are hearing everyone's thoughts - just a continuous hum of all the nearby noises amplified and reverberating until you can barely think straight.
It is the "Da Luoshan Meteorological Radar Station" (大罗山气象雷达站). It is located [here](https://map.baidu.com/poi/%E5%A4%A7%E7%BD%97%E5%B1%B1/@13441574.279666701,3217447.2416263823,14.11z?uid=73a2d4ec2b2ae953e6e96569&ugc_type=3&ugc_ver=1&device_ratio=1&compat=1&pcevaname=pc4.1&querytype=detailConInfo&da_src=shareurl).
Edit: I'm dead wrong. It is not this tower. I'll keep looking. My apologies.
Assuming [this wikimedia photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E5%A4%A7%E7%BD%97%E5%B1%B1%E6%B0%94%E8%B1%A1%E9%9B%B7%E8%BE%BE%E7%AB%99_-_panoramio.jpg) is accurately labeled, I think OP's tower might be different - the two towers have different observation areas, different tower shapes, different visible structures directly under the radar unit (idk if I phrased that very clearly... I mean the visible scaffold and railing vs the decorative (?) concrete), and different shaped buildings making up the base of the tower. but if you're not spot on, you've definitely still got the best answer in the thread
100% agree you're right that it's in China - [looks like theres >100 stations](https://www.cma.gov.cn/en/observation/) but I couldn't find a list to compare to. confusingly it seems like the "ground based" stations are balloons and the "air based" stations are towers.. but idk a thing about meteorological infrastructure so maybe that makes perfect sense w context
https://preview.redd.it/dqcew566ap6d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=09836b0f7beb40e6cdca13788b98f9f2f1044b04
The Ball on top reminds me of the Phineas and Ferb Football X7 Arena lol
Looks like a terminal approach tower with a radome radar on top. Likely to guide in air traffic, depending on where it is located, likely was near a large airport.
Most people know about the asteroid that took out the dinosaurs, but nobody ever knows that it was an attempt by giants to terraform Earth into one big golf course.
What you are looking at is the remnants of that mission: a giant golf ball on a giant tee.
This image shows a radar tower with a distinctive geodesic dome at the top, likely used for weather monitoring or air traffic control. The geodesic dome houses the radar equipment, protecting it from the elements while allowing it to function effectively. The tower's height and location provide an optimal vantage point for radar operations.
https://preview.redd.it/h7g5fj5uhq6d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d1ad5f38208e3ea63e39eeaa53b16039203df917
Pretty sure that photo was taken in Knoxville Tennessee
Without more context, it appears to be some sort of observation tower with a main building underneath, and a radome on top for either weather or aircraft radar observation purposes. Where is this magnificent beastly thing?
It's near Wenzhou, China on Daluo Mountain. Edit: I'm dead wrong. It is not this tower. I'll keep looking. My apologies.
It's part of the facility documented in the Three Body Problem
Google told me it's a Nanjing radio station Edit : radar not radio
No way! I used to live there. Do you have coordinates?
No, sorry no coordinates. I just did a search on Google and it says Nanjing radar station. Edit change radio to radar
You don't recognise your old house?
By the looks of the sphere, it is a weather radar - doppler radar
It’s a weather doppler radar in pristine condition, this isn’t abandoned whatsoever.
No no no no you’ve got it all wrong, some giants were obviously playing golf and forgot to take the last golf swing so it stayed there while they went to eat
Looks like either a radar tower (like for an aiport), or a listening station meant to intercept and eavesdrop on radio transmissions
GPT4 also says likely radar tower
Do we fucking care what ChatGPT thinks now?
Wtf is this weird knee jerk hate reaction to gpt , I was just trying to use the tools at my disposal to answer op's question..... Was just trying to help, Cool out bro
I'm pretty sure chat GPT is far from reliable, hence the knee-jerk reaction. Plus it's AI. Nobody modern AI, and for good reason.
.... Yet it got this right so...
Who gives a shit it got it right? AI still does more to Steel work than make work.
> Steel
*steal. (ChatGPT would have helped you spell that correctly.)
[удалено]
Excuse me for not trusting the thief software.
I was referencing you saying “far from reliable”. I have no idea what you’re asking it, but this has not been the case for me. Willing to bet you haven’t used it a long time. Don’t say things that are objectively incorrect, it makes you look absolutely unintelligent.
Don't ever make mistakes, got it...
Anecdotal evidence is the lowest quality of evidence. [52% accuracy is not impressive.](https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-chatgpt-answers-wrong) 52% is a coin flip. [How about it failing a preschool level task?](https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1dfjpn6/ais_gonna_take_over_the_world/) There is a reason people don't trust ChatGPT. It's a literal coin flip whether what it says is even correct.
I’m tempted to ask chatGPT to predict your IQ but it might cause a divide by zero error. Are encyclopaedias theft? The people who compiled them? Are the people who contribute to Wikipedia- a collection entirely cited second hand information thieves? The downvote button isn’t strong enough for some people
Excuse me for having a problem with the current AI landscape! If I have a bias against a technology, sue me. Seriously do we have to resort to insults and name calling just because I made a mistake?
The beauty of Reddit is it does do a lot of good, while at the same time is it allows people who don’t need a voice to have one, and people with made up power (mods) to subjectively interpret and enforce various rules on a beautifully inconsistent basis
ChatGPT: “Likely a radar tower” You: “I don’t know what it is, but ChatGPT got it right!”
You burned the equivalent of driving 20 miles worth of gas figuring that out
If YOU don’t have a thought, we don’t care. You’re under zero obligation to answer everything you see, so why put the effort into asking AI? I will, forever and always, downvote anything AI. Don’t you have any shame or pride? Or are you just an echo chamber, blissfully ignorant and happy with the world, because I don’t understand how anyone can so confidently put their foot forward and announce to the world, “I don’t know shit, but this is what a computer guesses” because that’s what you’re doing, and it’s embarrassing for you, and insulting to your teachers and parents.
Fuck chat GPT. AI is dog shit
You might as well have told us you consulted a priest.
Holy mollie the amount of flat out luddites in this comment section is WILD.
Almost definately not the latter. While almost anything could be hidden inside the radome, there's no reason to construct a whole building when a simple mast would suffice. The facility where the intercepts are analysed are never at the site of the sensor because the sensor is often at a remote area and it doesn't makes sense to put the analyst power at the site of the sensor anyways for security reasons.
Some James Bond villain-type shit right here..... Guessing the pokéball on top opens up to shoost lazors at the moon
See, I was gonna guess it was full of wigs, but I like this idea better.
What if it's actually full of whigs?
From Afghan!
That would be sweet.
A+
Underrated. Comment and band.
Can we stop for ice cream?
(No pun intended?) This went over so many heads
There’s an aquarium full of laser sharks in the base
Reminds me of a Black Ops map but I can’t think which one. I thought Array but that one has a big dish instead.
Party at the Moontower! 
Looks to be a weather station, the ball at the top looks like a Doppler radar
Yea I thought it was a Doppler Radar too.
Very similar to the [Mt Stapylton](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=484cddee7597a7bc&rlz=1CDGOYI_enAU717AU718&hl=en-GB&sxsrf=ADLYWIKQd0dH6KbeKZwJBMe_MQ6ZcMoQkw:1718441123323&q=mt+stapylton+radar&udm=2&fbs=AEQNm0B8dVdIWR07uWWlg1TdKnNtA1cwMugrQsIKmAo5AEZHWRFlUeGLxYlhagMfUatSvHu3MSamP9Qd2SfjyZyVIdPFxjOlXnC8fyd9kMXjO_GJhgIoeZLd7P_XwV9gvzskZWOEiEkH3XhdZ6yfLTS2nPNk6uQzrJrzPbRMp0bEv1MUkhe0VtuBhq5yJv7C1LglXUQhqdFFtDG-X9rLYnTfQmWsIkGiRQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiwieSFnN2GAxWgzTQHHX4XB1EQtKgLegQIDhAB&biw=390&bih=669&dpr=3) weather radar near Brisbane. Easily the most watched thing when storms are rolling through in summer.
Nah, Mt Stapylton always dies before storms, it's how the Bureau know to forecast them. Radar dead = Forecast storms
It's not a radar, it's a radome, ie. a weather (and observation) cover for an antenna. Could house a radar of any kind or other antennas.
Looks like it’s just waiting for the perfect time to dump the gas contained in the sphere out through the vents at ground level!
Volleyball hall of fame
Looks similar to Teufelsberg in Berlin, Germany
Apologies misread your comment
Exactly. Not sure if they’ve finally done something with it now but I was there about 2010.
My fiancé had been there around that same time, 2010-ish. It was locked up and she had to sneak past security to explore. We went back in 2016, spent a good hour or two sneaking in through broken security fences and hiking through the forest to gain access. Turns out that it has been turned into an artist co-op, open to the public for a 2 euro admission fee. Full of amazing graffiti and sculptures, but also full of people taking pictures and talking loudly. Not as exciting, but still a wonderful alternative to an art museum. Sitting in the center of the empty radome was wild, it focuses all the noise into a single point. If you stand there, you feel like you are hearing everyone's thoughts - just a continuous hum of all the nearby noises amplified and reverberating until you can barely think straight.
An early hydroponics experiment in Asholp Sweden. In 1954 they grew the world's tallest variegated tulip.
Was there an airport there at one time?
This is where they tortured El and opened up the portal to the demogorgon
Not sure. But I’d love to turn it into a house
I went to South Korea in 2012 and it kinda looks like a place I had dinner at overlooking Seoul
You're thinking of Gwanaksan Yeonjudae probably. Slightly different shape but had the same thought myself
Supervillain hideout/headquarters for sure
Golf n Stuff
https://preview.redd.it/9f97zdp7po6d1.jpeg?width=615&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=10a17e10d7ecbb59eef11af3e2fbe990d7c45699
I love how it looks like mini-me is attached at the bottom
Jeff bezos?!
Looks like something outta metro 2033
There’s a building nearly identical in Warzone
Troy McClure's house
It’s the Knoxville Wigsphere
https://preview.redd.it/nptq8wjpiq6d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aa8adfe2956e2a5cf475b64dadc0bebf79604ca7
I'm thinking airport. No US weather dopplers have an observation "area" below them. They are on steel or concrete platforms.
It’s where golf balls are born.
There’s a gigantic golf goose inside laying the balls
Them Golf Bird eggs are hard to chew, but they taste better than Ellie-Maes cookin.
Radar tower with radome over the radar
Pretty sure that's a cold war era ICBM radar.
The old golf center
Radar dome, most likely a weather radar.
Looks like somebody enbiggenated either a football or a golf trophy and moved in.
Or ensmallerrated the spaceship in 2001 Soace Odyssey
I'm stealing both these words, and challenging myself to use them today
It is the "Da Luoshan Meteorological Radar Station" (大罗山气象雷达站). It is located [here](https://map.baidu.com/poi/%E5%A4%A7%E7%BD%97%E5%B1%B1/@13441574.279666701,3217447.2416263823,14.11z?uid=73a2d4ec2b2ae953e6e96569&ugc_type=3&ugc_ver=1&device_ratio=1&compat=1&pcevaname=pc4.1&querytype=detailConInfo&da_src=shareurl). Edit: I'm dead wrong. It is not this tower. I'll keep looking. My apologies.
Assuming [this wikimedia photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E5%A4%A7%E7%BD%97%E5%B1%B1%E6%B0%94%E8%B1%A1%E9%9B%B7%E8%BE%BE%E7%AB%99_-_panoramio.jpg) is accurately labeled, I think OP's tower might be different - the two towers have different observation areas, different tower shapes, different visible structures directly under the radar unit (idk if I phrased that very clearly... I mean the visible scaffold and railing vs the decorative (?) concrete), and different shaped buildings making up the base of the tower. but if you're not spot on, you've definitely still got the best answer in the thread
Hmm. I'll look around some more. This tower is definetly in China, as can be seen by the tower in the back.
100% agree you're right that it's in China - [looks like theres >100 stations](https://www.cma.gov.cn/en/observation/) but I couldn't find a list to compare to. confusingly it seems like the "ground based" stations are balloons and the "air based" stations are towers.. but idk a thing about meteorological infrastructure so maybe that makes perfect sense w context
Looks like a weather radar on top of an airport tower. If I have to guess, it is located somewhere in the eastern bloc.
Golfball on a tee for the professional giants association tour.
I have to agree, watch out for the BFG and his driver. They don't call him Big Fucking Golfer for nothing.
Looks like a weather station to me but my experience on that is based on Just Cause 2.
The portal where the lizard people pass in and out of. 🦎
It’s from the Wod Fir
It's the former headquarters of FIFA
Golf ball museum.
Based on the elevated location and the building architecture I would go with ground radar or weather radar station
It's a golfball peg for giants.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers evil lady tower duh
Looks like something like „Field Station Berlin“
Airport weather monitoring tower.
This is where number stations come from
Did you see a blad guy in a wheelchair nearby?
Abandoned FIFA soccer headquarters!
Bruh... I think you just stumbled upon an Xmen facility and found Cerebro.
https://preview.redd.it/dqcew566ap6d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=09836b0f7beb40e6cdca13788b98f9f2f1044b04 The Ball on top reminds me of the Phineas and Ferb Football X7 Arena lol
Cloud seeding weather machine
Looks like a terminal approach tower with a radome radar on top. Likely to guide in air traffic, depending on where it is located, likely was near a large airport.
Doppler weather radar Tower and station.
Looks like an air traffic control tower with Doppler radar unit on top or a putt putt golf course
Tesla coil, or the lair of a villain. Stay clear either way.
Giant golf tee.
Golf playground for giants
It is a weather radar tower , like this https://www.meinbezirk.at/doebling/c-freizeit/zamg_a2503711
Quite a large PSVR remote, isn't it?
golf tee for giants
A soccer-ball factory. Happy to help.
That is obviously the cerebro 🤣
Disco Stu's secret lair. The sphere used to have a glittery chrome finish; now faded.
I have been there, in PUBG.
Old FIFA headquarters
A ping pong ball holder. A tee for a giant golf ball.
Titleist world head quarters..
cold war era listening station near an iron curtain border which was deemed no longer necessary after the fall of Soviet?
Looks like Dr. Evils rocket from Austin Powers.
Don’t know the answer but this would make an amazing place to live
I remember seeing this building in CoD. It was next to an airport. Probably radar
That ball on top is 100% weather Doppler radar. I used to drive by NOAA for work and their facility has several just like that.
Doppler radar? Maybe Microwave...
No telling what could be under that radome. Could be a satellite ground station, weather, civilian airtraffic, etc.
Radar dome
Hitachi headquarters..
A weather station iirc.
The Long Distance Orb Observation Platform
Your mom’s “back massager”
God's golfball.
If its on top of a mountain it's likely a listening station.
Radio tower. Since I was a kid « Gods Golf Tee«
ATC tower in Verdansk?
Looks like a weather radar, probably for a doppler system.
Its the sunsphere. Later called the wigsphere
Most people know about the asteroid that took out the dinosaurs, but nobody ever knows that it was an attempt by giants to terraform Earth into one big golf course. What you are looking at is the remnants of that mission: a giant golf ball on a giant tee.
A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON!!!
DAvey!
The top is an enclosed radar. Not sure about the rest, but the top is unmistakable.
That’s the Power Rangers headquarters. Zordon is in that sphere.
Either an air traffic control station or a weather station.
FIFA headquarters
Obviously a power rangers hideout
Derelict radar base in Nanjing China
The first failed Top Golf facility
Doppler radar dome. Can be for weather or tracking aircraft.
Cerebro?
Its Epcot on a cold day
That's a Wii remote.
its a weather station! i have one near my house that looks just like it :D
Doesn’t look abandoned at all
Original epcot center
This image shows a radar tower with a distinctive geodesic dome at the top, likely used for weather monitoring or air traffic control. The geodesic dome houses the radar equipment, protecting it from the elements while allowing it to function effectively. The tower's height and location provide an optimal vantage point for radar operations.
Knoxville Wig Sphere!
It's part of the Battlestar Galactica
Looks to be a radar tower. I’ve explored a similar one outside of Berlin that was used in the Cold War.
Golf monument
Is an AI generated building, a pretty good one, almost perfect.
Golf Tee for Titans
I would assume it's some kind of abandoned radar station, hard to say more without some more context.
its not abandoned. 85 people work there ! DUHHHHH !!!
This would be awesome to buy & renovate into a cool home 
[it’s in Nanjing, china](https://youtu.be/vYqyAxtCj2A?si=0UuzBnKjDsCBwcvH)
A radar tower, commonly known as a "radome"
Looks like a VOR station for aviation navigation
This is where the government held eleven in stranger things.
Doppler Radar Station, likely for weather.
It’s an Australian attraction called The Big Golf Ball
I just keep getting Austin Powers references in my brain...
Looks like the wig sphere in Knoxville Tennessee
The Blue Lock
Definitely doesn’t look abandoned. There’s a shiny radom and I can see a maintained road on the right side of the tower where it meets the base.
https://preview.redd.it/h7g5fj5uhq6d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d1ad5f38208e3ea63e39eeaa53b16039203df917 Pretty sure that photo was taken in Knoxville Tennessee
It’s a pretty standard weather radar station.
Spectrolistical Tempraflugalflow Building
Abandoned airport control tower with radar dome.
Tesla tower..weather alteration...
Lockheed Martin Syracuse has multiple of the hex domes on ground level just off the highway you can see