In addition to World's Tallest Sandcastle, Myrtle Beach also holds the World Record for World's Longest Sand Sculpture. At 86,535 feet long, that's more than 16 miles of sculpture!

Keep reading for some more images of Team Sandtastic's work, as well as details on some other unusual sandcastles around the world.

It's not like they just dumped the sand on a flat spot and called it a sandcastle. Sandtastic worked hard at giving the edifice plenty of texture, style, and beauty.

I think they did a great job creating something with pizzazz.

Here are some other remarkable sand sculptures from around the world. Sandcastlematt made this life-sized sandman out of driftwood and sand.

Sandcastlematt has also figured out how to violate the principles of gravity and building floating sand castles.

Navid J captured this compelling -- and completely disturbing -- sand sculpture created during the 2006 US Open Sandcastle Competition.