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 ...

A young Galileo is perched atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He is in the middle of his famous experiment—the one in which he shows, by dropping cannonballs of different weights, that all objects ...

Did you know the Leaning Tower of Pisa started in August 1173? It has made it through at least four big earthquakes. The tower was meant to be a grand bell tower. But it began to lean just five ...

The Leaning Tower of Pisa is recognized globally for its unique structure. We aren't used to seeing towers that look like they're falling over nor do we usually think to climb them. Despite its ...

Built on the shifting sands of a former estuary, the Leaning Tower of Pisa probably began tilting not long after medieval laborers laid its first foundation stones. In the 800 years since ...

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 ...

In the article, I dip into the rich history of leaning structures, from the Tower of Pisa to the Leaning Temple of Huma, in India, and Big Pants, the CCTV tower, in Beijing, one of many buildings ...

1 Seaport was six hundred and seventy feet tall, and leaning. For as long as humans have made towers, some have leaned. The Tower of Pisa started settling unevenly on its shallow foundation not ...