A 65-meter high minaret stands in Afghanistan, built around 1190 CE. It is covered with religious carvings and calligraphy in more than one language. But this ancient and remote edifice is surrounded by the Hindu Kush mo...

In 1809, the Ottoman Empire wanted to warn the Ser...  ...onument using the heads as building material. The tower itself was 10 feet high, contained 952 skulls, an...  ...burials. In 1892, there were only 50 left on the tower and a chapel was built over top to preserve what...

The Shard building is an 80-story tower in London that is still under construction. Worke...

To protect the country from an invasion by Nap...  ...invasion by Napoleon Bonaparte, Britain built 103 towers along its southern shore to spot and slow down a...  ...slow down a French invasion force. The Martello towers , as they were called, had walls 30 feet tall and...  ...uarters of the battlements, that...

Neatorama author Johnny Cat stopped blogging for a...  ...where we find that he is going to climb his first tower today, a 75-foot training tower at Northwest renewable Energy Institute. See a vi...  ...wable Energy Institute. See a video report on the tower at the link. Good...

(video link) A 275-foot smokestack was demoli...  ...e wrong wrong way today in Springfield, Ohio. The tower brought down power lines and crushed equipment. T...