Windmill
A windmill is a tall building that waves at everyone all day and has never once been waved back at properly.
Telegraph pole
A telegraph pole holds up wires that have not carried a telegram in years. Nobody has told the pole.
Stilts
Stilts are a way of being tall that can be taken off, which is more than giraffes can say.
Waterfall
Water at the top of a waterfall has no idea what is coming; water at the bottom has opinions.
Great Wall of China
The Great Wall of China is a wall that kept going for about two thousand years, mostly uphill.
Giraffe
A giraffe is so tall that the weather at its head is reported separately from the weather at its feet.
Stalactite
A stalactite is a rock that grows down from a cave ceiling, holding on tight, and waiting for a stalagmite that is taking its time.
Ceiling
A ceiling is the floor of the room upstairs, used upside down so that only flies walk on it.
Stalagmite
A stalagmite grows upward about a centimetre a century, and has no plans for when it gets there.
Bookshelf
A bookshelf stores books in order of how clever they make you look, not the order you read them.