While flying through Melbourne's virtual sky, a Microsoft Flight Simulator player spotted a narrow, blatantly tall skyscraper that looked out of place in an ordinary suburb.

As it turns out, this strangely towering building is the result of a typo. To create the map, developer Asobo used data from Bing Maps, which uses user-submitted data from OpenStreetMap, a free wiki world map. The user mistakenly wrote the building's floor number as 212 instead of 2. Twitter user Liam O. noticed after someone spotted the ridiculously tall building.

The error was eventually corrected, but in the meantime Asbo took data from the Flight Simulator Melbourne map and created the suburban spire of doom now seen in the game. Since then, players have flocked to the monolith, and one brave soul even landed on it.

Microsoft Flight Simulator allows players to explore the entire world by plane thanks to AI that maps the world from satellite imagery; in a video by BBC News, several bridges in London have gone underwater and Buckingham Palace was automatically selected textures have turned it into a block of flats.

In any case, the world looks stunningly beautiful from far above, but you can probably only spot these tiny details if you look really closely at the ground.

The towering citadel of Melbourne can be found by flying northeast from Essendon Airport.

While you are looking at strange settings and creepy objects in Microsoft Flight Simulator, try our new series Fright Stimulator. The show tells "real" stories in a surreal, virtual world.