The attention to detail can be astonishing: a doppelganger Queen's Guard patrols Shanghai's Thames Town, which abounds with statues of Winston Churchill; gleaming replicas of the White House dot Chinese cities.
Nashville is a laid-back place: a tourist-friendly Democratic-voting dot in the middle of the conservative Bible Belt.
Series one fans got another little titbit this week as dodgy Dot met up with nasty Nige (aka DC Nigel Morton, played by Neil Morrissey).
The camera is trained on Kittel in the yellow jersey, who rides alongside the other fancy jumper incumbents - Jens Voigt in polka dot, Peter Sagan in white and Europcar's Bryan Coquard in green.
Ziegler, who was beside him, seemed unsure which weapon to use; in the space of seven seconds he returned his handgun to its holster, replaced it with a Taser-style stun gun that cast a red laser dot on Jeanetta's torso, only to put it away and switch back to his handgun.
The big things just weren't big enough to lure hungry travellers from the generic service stations and drive-through takeaway joints that dot the freeways today.
At the level of framing a very important and consequential debate in national affairs, the government was in deliberate dot drawing mode this week.
Seeing that gull chicks pecked at the yellow-orange dot on their parent's beak to make the parent regurgitate food for them, Tinbergen presented the chicks with even bigger yellow-orange dots.
At first glance, Cereal Anytime looks like many of the other fashionable, blonde wood-filled cafes that dot the inner suburbs of Melbourne.
On through Hay, machinery stores dot the landscape which has made money from sheep and wool, though in later years crops like rice and cotton have been grown.
He cited the example of a new hotel planned for Leningradsky Prospekt, one of the main city thoroughfares, for which one design plan envisages a mock-up of one of Stalin's "Seven Sisters", the neo-gothic skyscrapers that dot Moscow.
