Towers

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

This dizzying tower was built to better broadcast the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

A unique museum dedicated to the famed Soviet director and other cinema greats.

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.

Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.

There’s a special club house at the top for the bell ringers.

The "stairway to heaven" lookout tower was built to resist weather, arson, and the laws of physics.

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

Its town washed away centuries ago, this lonely tower by the sea tells the tale of a mermaid and a curse.

This folly built to commemorate an aristocratic victory over Catholic rebellion plays tricks on the eye.

This sky-high radio mast is formerly the tallest man-made structure in the world.

This modernist tower was saved by a fraternity with a 500-year-old penchant for shooting at wooden parrots.

This space-age looking obelisk rises over a city in the rainforest, meant to resemble the local castaña tree.

This 47-story "M" needed 20 years to be completed