Oh, the Leaning Tower of Pisa — so touristy and yet so fun. Each day, hordes of visitors come to the small northwestern Tuscan town of Pisa to take pictures "propping up" its tower. Some do it ...
Standing in a large green expanse, Piazza del Duomo houses a group of monuments known the world over. These four masterpieces of medieval architecture - the cathedral, the baptistry, the campanile ...
Have you ever wondered if the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a catastrophe waiting to happen? In this one-minute video, Ask Smithsonian host Eric Schulze explains how architects and engineers spent the ...
Who hasn't heard of the Leaning Tower of Pisa? Architects began building this most famous of medieval campaniles in 1173, but work stopped abruptly five years later when they first noticed a ...
A young Galileo is perched atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He is in the middle of his famous experiment—the one in which he shows, by dropping cannonballs of different weights, that all objects ...
Grady Hillhouse of Practical Engineering took a look at the history of the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy ... Unlike the millions of photos with tourists pretending to hold the tower up, the ...
Resident Kimberly Williams said: "The Italians have got the leaning tower of Pisa - March has now got the leaning tree of Christmas." Volunteers who erected the tree said it was like that when ...
Marvel at the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the colorful Burano Tower in Venice, the historic Tiger Hill Pagoda in China, and the striking Gate of Europe Towers in Madrid. Experience the unique ...