Oh, the Leaning Tower of Pisa — so touristy and yet so fun ... meaning that at the top, it's displaced nearly 13 feet from its bottom. Yikes! And yet, it's still architecturally sound enough ...

In the mid-1990s, lead blocks like these helped pull the tower over half an inch closer to vertical at the top - a significant amount to engineers. The Pisa Commission stabilizes the masonry by ...

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 ...

If left unchecked, the landmark could lean as much as the Tower of Pisa in roughly 4,000 years. That landmark is, of course, Big Ben, officially known as the Elizabeth Tower, which has stood at ...

The Village of Niles recently voted in favor of purchasing the old YMCA — named for the replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa that stands ... as "easily among the top 10 [YMCAs] in the country ...

Built on the shifting sands of a former estuary, the Leaning Tower of Pisa probably began tilting ... the seventh cornice up to the bell chamber's floor on the south side, while only adding ...