ABU DHABI’S LEANING BUILDING

“Plenty of skyscrapers dominate the desert horizons of the Middle East including the world’s tallest building, the 2716ft Burj Khalifa in Dubai, but until now the term ‘leaning tower’ has been associated with just one destination – Pisa. The centuries-old Italian tourist attraction – which began to lean shortly after it was built in 1173 – has a new rival in the shape of the 48ft-high Capital Gate building in Abu Dhabi. The tower has already been officially recognized as the ‘furthest-leaning man-made tower’ in the world by Guinness World Records.” LINK

Leaning Tower of Shanghai

Surely you’ve heard of the Great Wall of China, but how about a Leaning Tower? Turns out, China’s Huzhu Pagoda may just be the most tilted building in the world, beating out the Leaning Tower of Pisa …

The Huzhu pagoda leans over Tianma village in Songjiang suburb, its seven-story structure so lopsided it seems in imminent danger of toppling over altogether.

It was built in 1079 — well before Italy’s famous Leaning Tower of Pisa — by Gen. Zhou Wenda to house five Buddha relics given to him as a reward by Emperor Song Gaozong of the Southern Song dynasty. But from the start, it began to tilt.

“Part of the foundation was built on rock, part of the foundation was built on mud,” explains Yang Kun, who works at the Songjiang Museum and has studied the pagoda’s history. LINK