And though the Eiffel Tower only held the title of tallest for 41 years—the Chrysler Building in New York surpassed it in ...

The tallest building in Europe is called The Lakhta Centre and is located just outside of St Petersburg in Russia — however not many people know the building exists ...

The Eiffel Tower contest is similar to Airbnb's "Night ... Those spaces have included a bedroom submerged in a shark tank in Paris, New York City's Ellis Island and Boston's Fenway Park.

For 41 years, the Eiffel Tower stood higher than any building or structure in the world—until it was surpassed by the Chrysler Building in New York, which topped out at 1046 feet. Just a year ...

The top hid Gustave Eiffel's office ... At this point, the tower had a completely new lighting scheme highlighting its silhouette, and luminous lines ran along the entire edge of the structure ...

The Eiffel Tower was initially intended to be a ... rising a dramatic 1,024 feet over Paris. In 1930, New York’s budding skyline cinched the record, first with the Chrysler Building (at 1,046 ...

Encompassing roughly 1,300 square feet, the hotel spread features unobstructed views of the Eiffel Tower and the Seine River.

The history of viewing platforms in New York begins around 1850. The iron-braced wooden Latting Observatory in Midtown Manhattan looked like a cross between an oil rig and the Eiffel Tower.