When you don’t place a structure – particularly a very tall structure – on a solid foundation, this is what happens. The building starts to lean, further and further each year, and though it may take centuries, it will eventually come crashing down without serious efforts to stabilize it. That’s what is happening to most of these 13 leaning towers of the world, although a few are tilted on purpose.
Big Ben, London, UK
Bad Frankenhausen Church Tower, Germany
Two Towers of Bologna, Italy
Tiger Hill Pagoda, China
Nevyansk Tower, Russia
Oude Kerk, Delft, The Netherlands
Tower of Pisa, Italy
Suurhusen Church Tower, Germany
The Leaning Temple of Huma
Capital Gate Tower, Olympic Stadium & Gate of Europe