Towers

In the town of Åtvidaberg, the midday sun sets off a loud cannon boom.

Washington's top-secret Cold War-era doomsday communications tower is located in a small neighborhood park.

The whimsical twist of this spire was either caused by the Devil, an unexpected virgin, or lead.

This tower in a small Polish village uses the power of a sacred bell to ward off mischievous weather spirits.

This poignant WWI memorial looks like a lighthouse 100 miles from the sea.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

A highly symbolic tower in honor of Supreme Leader Kim Il-sung's personal philosophy.

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

Two giant painted cooling towers make for one of the world’s most epic bungee jumps.

The ruins of an 800-year-old monastery boasts the tallest round tower in Ireland.

This spire on an Austrian mountain is wrapped around a long spiral slide and has the world's tallest wooden observation deck.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

This Latvian shot factory is still used twice a year to manufacture bullets the old-fashioned way.

One of the oldest of its kind.

This long unused shot tower on the Mississippi remains a point of pride for a small city in Iowa.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

A model memorial to the original Odin Tower, the second highest tower in Europe before it was sabotaged by Danish Nazis.