Water tower overlooking Target Field honors Killebrew

The historic water tower on top of the Wyman-Partridge building across the street from Target Field has a new, killer look. A banner featuring Harmon Killebrew’s No. 3 will be wrapped around the tower for the next five weeks, coming down on July 4th. LINK

A phone-cam view of Mecca from 1730 feet up on the Mecca Royal Clock Tower

Due to open in 2011 the seven star, 95 floor Mecca Royal Clock Tower Hotel will stand at 1972 feet.
Constructed by the Saudi BinLadin group the tower will become the world's second tallest building when completed. LINK: LiveLeak

Stairway to Heaven – Climbing a 1786 ft Tower

Hold on to your lunch, this is freaking AWESOME!
The commute of one worker, 1786 feet straight up. Don't watch this if you are afraid of heights! Best in "Full Screen" mode. LINK: LiveLeak

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

Dynamic Architecture (Dubai)

Dynamic Architecture rotating floors - rotating tower in Dubai. LINK: Youtube

ClockTower Triplex Penthouse

This ClockTower Triplex Penthouse is a $25million apartment in Brooklyn - More info & pics HERE. | LINK

World's Largest Spherical Panorama

This is a super high resolution photo. Use your mouse to zoom in and see a startling level of detail. This image is currently the largest spherical panoramic photo in the world. It is 192,000 pixels wide and 96,000 pixels tall. That's 18.4 billion pixels!

When it's printed, it will be 16 meters (53 feet) long at regular photographic quality. It was shot in early October 2009 from the top of the Zizkov TV Tower in Prague, Czech Republic. Hundreds of shots were shot over a few hours; these shots were then stitched together on a computer over the following few weeks. LINK: The Presurfer

Be sure to check this out, it's pretty cool.

Wooden Stair Tower

“When David Spearman bought his new house, he thought the bottom of his garden would be perfect for a vegetable patch. The only snag was that it happened to be up a sheer 50ft cliff. Undeterred, he took inspiration from the home improvement shows he loves to watch on TV and built a wooden tower with six flights of stairs to scale the chalk cliff. The $15,000, 90-step tower, which took six months to build, not only allows the IT worker and his wife Moira to reach the end of their garden, but the top also doubles as a patio with decking, a table, four benches and a superb view of the River Medway.” LINK, Via: Unique Daily

Tower of Bahhbel: Illinois Farmer Lovingly Makes Castle for His Goats

There were seven wonders of the ancient world, all but one destroyed. There are three goat towers in the modern world and all of them still stand.

In the words of Shelley's Ozymandias: "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"*

More simply: Goat towers kick ass over ancient wonders.

Now, it must be said that the most kick-assingest goat tower is the one at the Fairview Wine and Cheese Estate in Paarl, South Africa, because it was the first goat tower ever constructed, back in 1981, and because it is on a wine and cheese estate.

But the goat tower with the most kick-assingest name is the Tower of Baaa, in Findlay, Illinois, a scant 131 miles and 2 hours and 41 minutes from St. Louis, Missouri, via Interstate 70. 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

The Tower

flickr.com — Photographed by Martin Burrow at Embalse de Los Bermejales, Province of Granada, Spain.

Excavator Tower Climbing Stunt

Our pal Dark Roasted Blend dug up these photos of a hydraulic excavator climbing a tower. Supposedly, it’s a publicity stunt by Lebherr hydraulics, to show off the strength of their machines. LINK

Previously on Neatorama: How To Unload an Excavator

The Retriever: Motorcycle That Can Tow a Car

Ever got your car towed … by a motorcycle? Behold the Retriever, a modified Honda Goldwing 1800 cc motorcycle that can tow most types of passenger cars. The Retriever, made by Swedish company Coming Through, has one distinct benefit: it can squeeze in between cars stuck on the road in a traffic jam caused by a broken-down car ahead.

Link, Via: The Red Ferret Journal, Via: Neatorama

Calgary Tower See-Through Floor

The Calgary Tower in Calgary, Alberta, Canada installed a clear, see-through glass floor! It’s 525 feet (190 meters) over the city and kinda freaky. LINK

Ever Seen a Creepier Tower?

The Zižkov television tower in Prague, Czech Republic features crawling babies by artist David Cerný. They were attached in 2000 as a temporary exhibit, but people liked them so much, they are still there! See many more pictures at deputy dog. Link, Via: Neatorama

Canadian National Tower - Ontario, Canada

The CN Tower, located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is a communications and tourist tower standing 553.33 metres (1,815.39 ft) tall.[1] It surpassed the height of the Ostankino Tower while still under construction in 1975, becoming the tallest free-standing structure on land in the world. On September 12, 2007, after holding the record for 32 years, the CN tower was surpassed in height by the still-under-construction Burj Dubai.[2] It remains the signature icon of Toronto, attracting more than two million international visitors annually.[3]. LINK