Fittingly, the one in Paris, Texas, has a cowboy hat on top. 8. The Eiffel Tower shrinks when it's cold outside. Metal contracts when it freezes, so the tower shortens about six inches in total!

It wasn’t an obvious day to climb the Eiffel Tower. It was the end of November, 1989. Overcast and cold, with clouds obscuring the city. Anita Hansen, then in her early 20s, was studying French ...

The radical cast-iron tower was built for the 1889 World Fair and the centenary of the 1789 Revolution by engineer Gustave Eiffel. Eiffel made use of new technology that was already popular in ...