NILES, Ill. (CBS) -- Four years after its membership facilities closed at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the vacant Leaning Tower YMCA in north suburban Niles is poised to be demolished in ...

With the tower continuing to tilt naturally at the rate of a little over five arc seconds per year, the Italian government closes the Leaning Tower of Pisa, sparking outrage by Pisan officials ...

As of June 1999, the Leaning Tower of Pisa leaned an inch less than it had at the beginning of the year. It may sound like a small step for the tower, but it's a giant leap for the Pisa Commission ...

turned into a financial fiasco and a construction blame game that put a halt to the potentially unfixable leaning tower that has been described as "banana-shaped." In 2015 Fortis Property Group ...

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 ...

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 ...