I agree! I just discovered this channel tonight -- a few hours ago. It's refreshing to finally have something different for a change. There seem to be loads of true crime channels. The only one kind of similar to this one is THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BRIGGS.
A subject suggestion: urban ravine systems. I live in Toronto, which has an interesting maze of ravines, which combine parkland and wooded areas with unpaved trails. Some are very deep and darkly wooded, and yet come very close to the centre of the city. They really make urban life better, since you can on a moment's notice take a walk in place full of trees, racoons, foxes, and even the occasional wild deer to clear your mind. I've lived in other cities that had no ravines, and missed them. I don't mind if parts of them are manicured park areas with public amusement stuff, or formal gardens, or whatever, but its the parts that are left alone to fill up with wild beasts and trails that tunnel through the forest that really make them good.
Ton o' rot's ravines are parkland traps there, and thus dole out a mere pair's worth of directions, such that there's nothing remotely maze-like about a n y of them
We call them canyons in California. Great nature hikes right in city. San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange County. I had a great “ravine “ behind my house in west Little Rock with a glimpse of Arkansas River
@@marthamcginty7444 I've enjoyed them when living in California. I've heard a half a dozen different terms used for them in North America. "Gulch" is an English word for them, but it seems to be confined to foothills of the Rockies in both the U.S. and Canada, and the southwestern deserts. "Ravine" derived from French, seems to hold sway in the areas that have been at any time under French influence [all of Canada and much of the Midwest all the way down to Arkansas]. "Canyon" equally in places under Spanish influence. Several different terms in Appalachia and New England. In Canada, the term "ravine" exclusively means a small creek valley, while "canyon" has to be something really big with cliffs rather than sloping sides. All these terms are really fluid. When I was in England, I was amused to find things called "river" which in Canada would be dismissed as a "creek" and barely noticed.
Shout out to the Kennecott smelter stack west of Salt Lake City for being the tallest man-made, freestanding structure west of the Mississippi river. At 1215 ft (370 m) tall, it is also the fourth tallest smoke stack in the world.
Great upload Kyle! And thanks for props to the tallest totem pole in my province of BC. Your channel is quite unique and I'm a big fan! Here's an idea for a show : strangest looking hi rises. Here in Vancouver, we're starting to accumulate about a half dozen now, the most prominent being 410 W Georgia and Vancouver House. Thanks again!
I used to have a background on my Windows computer that featured the buildings on the shoreline as viewed from somewhere near the Burrard St bridge looking east northeast. I love that style of building.
Did someone suggest the Perry Monument in Put in Bay Ohio? It is the tallest Doric Column in the world measuring 352 feet. It's observation deck gives great views of the western basin of Lake Erie.
The Bunker Hill monument is actually on Breed's Hill, but it is where they prepared for the actual Bunker Hill battle (or so I've been told all my life). A little local background for you all. Thanks Kyle!
Most websites state that the battle (or most of the battle) took place on Breed's Hill. Apparently, both American and British forces were confused as to which hill was which. So, when the Monument Association built the thing, they correctly located the Bunker Hill Monument on Breed's Hill.
@@Compucles The tour guides at the arch use the term "catenary curve". Then they tell you that it is not exactly the same as an inverted parabola. I'm not sure what a hyperbolic cosine would be, but maybe you're right.
The CN Tower is no joke. The highest observation deck (above the restaurant portion) is crazy! It's small and feels kinda like the Hamburgler Jail from the old school McDonalds playland. It's not very well insulated, it's rickety, it's terrifying! But FUN!
Niagara Falls Ontario also has a couple of interesting towers that aren't on the list. The Skylon, which looks a bit like a mashup of the CN Tower and the Space Needle is 520 feet and was completed in 1965. The Tower Hotel was completed in 1962, and 325 feet above street level. The tower has had many name changes over the years, originally call the Seagram Tower. Other names were the Heritage Tower 1969, Royal Inn Tower 1971, Royal Centre Tower 1972, Panasonic Tower 1973, Minolta Tower 1984, and the Konica Minolta Tower 2003. The present name dates from 2010, but it's still commonly just referred to as the Minolta Tower.
The statue of Vulcan, god of the forge, and its pedestal stands at 180 feet. It sits on a high ridge above the city of Birmingham, AL and is quite impressive for a relatively smaller inhabitable structure.
This is a great video concept. I noticed that you missed the 456 ft. 'Kingda Ka' rolllercoaster at Six Flags Great America, which would displace No. 11 on your list.
I was thinking that deserves to be in this video somewhere too. I'm guessing it doesn't really count as a "habitable structure", you're only up there for a few seconds haha.
It’s not very tall, but the Washington Monument in Baltimore is absolutely worth the climb to the top. It’s the oldest monument to George Washington in the country.
There is also a Washington Monument overlooking Boonesboro, MD (near Hagerstown). I happened upon this last year. It is kind of neat and it is almost 200 years old (although it was rebuilt after the Civil War). Not very tall, but neat anyway.
Fun one not mentioned is Cedar Points Top Thrill Dragster (420 feet) and Six Flag Great Adventures Kingda Ka (456 feet). These two rides also happen to be the 2 tallest roller coasters in the world currently. However TTD probs should have an * next to it right now as it is closed and is under a remodel or potentially a new ride though that seem unlikely currently.
I love these kinds of videos with interesting and unique building style comparisons. It is neat to think how much skylines have developed with various cities throughout the years. Another cool video topic would be neat if you did is how much city skylines have changed versus some that have not over a set period of time.
When I was a very little girl we lived in the Bankview neighborhood of Calgary, and my bedroom looked out on downtown. The Calgary Tower dominated the cityscape. Now it’s lost among the skyscrapers. Bankview is a collection of hills that lead up to a plateau so high that it gives the impression that when you look toward downtown you’re looking not up to the top of the Tower but across at it.
Yeah it's pretty unfortunate that the tower is so surrounded. It's pretty old though and maybe it will be torn down in the next two decades and replaced on the west end so you can see 200 degrees of the city and the mountains. Calgary has a very beautiful skyline but the tower just doesn't match it as it awkwardly sits in the middle of it all. The Vancouver lookout is more awkward and out of place though, it pretty much ruins the skyline.
I was going to ask if you were interested in listing the antenna towers so I'm glad you included them in here. I was also going to mention that if you were going to list some that it would be a rather boring list and you also included that description in the video. One other suggestion would be to list bell towers or campaniles in the world. Some of those are rather interesting.
Yes, in 1999 it was moved 2900 feet! Quite the feat of engineering to do. If you go they have a bit of a museum showing how it was done, including videos.
I like how you switch between meters and feet based on the country. I think writing both measurements units on screen and speaking only one of them is the right approach.
This is fantastic; as much as I enjoy the more geographically-focused videos this one is a great survey of unique architecture verging into topography. The Sunsphere looks like a spaceship, amazing.
Going to the top of the Stratosphere when I was staying there was probably one of the coolest experiences I had in Vegas. Its crazy how much it sways around up there, and yes, the roller coaster that tips you over the edge is terrifying 😂
As a Washingtonian, I think its interesting how Seattle definitely has the most visually appealing tower. It looks more spry and sleek than all of the other towers, especially the concrete behemoths. Some of us don't like how popular the space needle is and how its a big tourist trap, but it definitely is the prettiest thing we got.
Don't know about prettiest, but definitely the coolest! And there are so many other interesting things at Seattle Center that most visitors don't know about until they go there for the Needle.
I think the Eiffel Towers at Kings Island and Kings Dominion are around 1/3rd scale. Along with budget concerns, this is why Orion's lift hill does not surpass 300ft although it reaches this threshold with its first drop
I'm a huge aficionado of tall structures (usually I target buildings/skyscrapers but all kinds of tall structures are cool) so I'm glad you did this video! And thank you for making sure to cover the boring reality of TV towers and smokestacks.
Good list! I’ve been up in the arch, Seattle’s space needle and the Eiffel Tower among the top ten; the Bunker Hill monument and Statue of Liberty; and drove to the base of the TV tower in North Dakota (that was quite a tradeoff…it’s a TV tower several miles off the interstate, but I thought, when am I going to be here again?).
I’d like to mention that Niagara Falls Ontario has more towers than most cities. Although the names of these towers have changed over the years I recall them as 1. The Skylon Tower, 2. The Panasonic Tower (had many name changes), 3. The Oneida Tower (later part of the Maple Leaf Village tourist attraction), and 4. Towers department store located on Dorchester Rd. near the QEW highway.
I drove by the tv tower in Blanchard when I was driving from Grand Forks to Fargo one time. It’s a few miles west of I-29. Surrounded by dirt roads but you can drive right up to it. It doesn’t look as tall in the pictures as in real life. You can clearly see it from the interstate towering above the flatlands.
Oh, you mean what was supposed to be part of the 'retractable roof' for the "Big Owe"? (And yeah, some Montrealer's are still waiting on that man to have a baby.)
@@davegreenlaw5654 LOL! Yup! But still a pretty structure. Montreal is like that neighbor with the fancy house and awesome car but with lots of debt. Montreal spends a lot of money but architecturally it is more interesting than, let's say, Toronto.
@@ctalcantara1700 Fully agree with you on the architecture. Toronto had too many 'forward thinkers' back in the 60's and 60's who were too eager to tear down things in order to put THEIR stamp on the city.
I had hoped you would have included the Perry's victory and International Peace Memorial. Only 352 feet but a worthy honorable mention with a fantastic view.
I wish the Philadelphia City Hall clock tower was included. It remains the tallest all-masonry structure in the world at 548 feet.. It does have an interior and also an observation deck so it could be consider "habitable."
I'm glad you included the Peachoid. It always makes me smile when I'm driving up I-85. If anyone wants a better look, there's a Fatz restaurant right next door.
I live 30 mins away from the WEAU TV tower which is the tallest man made structure east of the Mississippi River. Originally constusted in the 60s but rebuilt in 2011 after a snow storm knocked it down.
I'm sure I've seen hundreds of images of the Dallas skyline, but I never knew that the Reunion Tower wasn't an office building. (I knew it didn't have a lot of windows but I just sort of shrugged it off as some wacky expression of Brutalism.) Thanks for the lesson!
In KCMO, Liberty Memorial is 217 feet and nearby KCTV Tower at 1042 feet, aren't as tall as others. But they command the high ground south of downtown. KCTV can be seen for miles in various directions. Including on I70, at the Truman Sports Complex. About 5 miles. Being a CBS station, they called it the "Eyefull Tower." The tower is a 4-sided free standing tower, rather than a monopole. When built, in 1955, was the largest free standing tower in the world.
Nice video. I was hoping Baltimore's very pretty Washington Monument (older than the DC one) might get a mention. Baltimore doesn't get a lot of love from this channel -- or anywhere.
I can't believe you didn't say anything much about the Tower of the Americas in San Antonio, other than that it is ugly. It's very mid-century, and having been built in the 60s, that's to be expected. Also, there's a rotating restaurant in the round at the top, and a wonderful museum of San Antonio all around the base, and surrounded by a wonderful garden with waterfalls and native plants. The restaurant is one of the nicest in San Antonio, and offers a 360degree view miles and miles in every direction as you eat dinner. It's a wonderful place to visit.
I wish you would have talked more about the towers and smoke stacks. My personal favorite tall thing in the USA is the Kennecott Utah Copper LLC's Garfield Smelter Stack outside Salt Lake City. I don't find those things boring at all. I love learning about weird things like that.
Apparently the Outer Continental Shelf doesn’t count? I used to work on the Bullwinkle platform, which is a freestanding platform, extending ~300 feet above the waterline, but ~1400 feet below, so a total of ~1700 feet. The jacket covers 4.5 acres of sea floor. Later platforms developed for this water depth and beyond are floaters.
One other tall obelisk is the High Point Monument in the NW corner of New Jersey. It is 220 feet tall. Also a suggestion. Much of New York City has such steep terrain that there are pedestrian staircases called "step streets" replacing some streets. But they have the names of the streets that would otherwise be there. According to my research there are 102 throughout the 5 boroughs. I imagine other cities have them as well.
Perry's Monument in Ohio should have been an honorable mention. It is quite an impressive structure for 1915 and the views across Lake Eire are quite the sight to behold. One of the times I've been up there we watched waterspouts between Kelleys and Pelee islands. I've also been in the CN Tower and walked across the glass floor. It's waaaaay up there. The Seattle space needle is cool I've eaten at the restaurant which is on a platform with continuously rotates 360 degrees. I've also been in the Eiffel Tower replica at Kings Island but it's only a 1/3 scale model. I kinda fell into a thing for towers I should probably take a USA road trip to visit more.
Another that I feel should definitely get honorable mention, and especially coming from a Floridian’s perspective, is Bok Tower in Lake Wales, Florida. It’s maybe the most beautiful tower in the world in my opinion, opened in 1929, and stands 205 feet (62m) tall. It also has one of the only remaining carillons in the world that is still played, and it is known as the “Singing Tower”. It’s also surrounded by a beautiful sprawling garden designed by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., the son of the famous Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. who designed Central Park, is on the National Register of Historic Places, and Edward Bok who designed the tower was an early promoter of Frank Lloyd Wright. The tower and gardens were even opened by President Calvin Coolidge. It’s a largely overlooked magnificent structure in Central Florida, that sort of feels out in the wilderness now, but is still very well maintained and curated.
this is a good point. university clock towers could also find their way into this video as well. both UC Berkeley and UT Austin have among the tallest in the world.
The CN Tower is so tall you can see it from the Mountain Brow In Hamilton on a clear day. The Mountain as its locally known is the top of th escarpment in the city.
Water towers have always been a weird interest of mine. Living in the midwest, each town's water tower is sort of like their beacon seen from miles away. To go with the peach one in SC, Rochester, MN has a corn shaped one. It's actually one of the city's most famous landmarks.
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This is the kind of niche content that makes this channel special.
Yeah and I always learn something.
I've lived in the San Antonio area and the DFW Metroplex so I've been to two on this list.
RIP Reunion Arena.
nah bruv, it's shite. interesting maps okay, but this is prime autism.
... that is just awesome
I agree! I just discovered this channel tonight -- a few hours ago. It's refreshing to finally have something different for a change. There seem to be loads of true crime channels. The only one kind of similar to this one is THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BRIGGS.
Reunion Tower!! My favorite part of driving in Dallas at night :)
Such an iconic part of the skyline here
A subject suggestion: urban ravine systems. I live in Toronto, which has an interesting maze of ravines, which combine parkland and wooded areas with unpaved trails. Some are very deep and darkly wooded, and yet come very close to the centre of the city. They really make urban life better, since you can on a moment's notice take a walk in place full of trees, racoons, foxes, and even the occasional wild deer to clear your mind. I've lived in other cities that had no ravines, and missed them. I don't mind if parts of them are manicured park areas with public amusement stuff, or formal gardens, or whatever, but its the parts that are left alone to fill up with wild beasts and trails that tunnel through the forest that really make them good.
I remember going to a college lecture decades ago regarding Tacoma's system of ravines. They call them "gulches".
Ton o' rot's ravines are parkland traps there, and thus dole out a mere pair's worth of directions, such that there's nothing remotely maze-like about a n y of them
We call them canyons in California. Great nature hikes right in city. San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange County. I had a great “ravine “ behind my house in west Little Rock with a glimpse of Arkansas River
Ooh, this is a great topical suggestion.
@@marthamcginty7444 I've enjoyed them when living in California. I've heard a half a dozen different terms used for them in North America. "Gulch" is an English word for them, but it seems to be confined to foothills of the Rockies in both the U.S. and Canada, and the southwestern deserts. "Ravine" derived from French, seems to hold sway in the areas that have been at any time under French influence [all of Canada and much of the Midwest all the way down to Arkansas]. "Canyon" equally in places under Spanish influence. Several different terms in Appalachia and New England. In Canada, the term "ravine" exclusively means a small creek valley, while "canyon" has to be something really big with cliffs rather than sloping sides. All these terms are really fluid. When I was in England, I was amused to find things called "river" which in Canada would be dismissed as a "creek" and barely noticed.
The Pilgrims Tower In Massachusetts is fun to climb. The views of the Cape and the ocean are awesome. Then go get a “lobstah”.
For sure adding the Blanchard radio tower to my list of sightseeing spots on my next trip to ND. Thanks Geography King!
Perry Victory monument on Lake Erie at 352 feet. Second tallest Federal monument after the Washington Monument. Nice video. Thanks.
You really did your due diligence and even covered the super stack. Good job.
CN Tower is amazing, it is for sure the stand out in Toronto skyline.
I drive through Gaffney everyday and the Peach always makes me laugh. 😂
As soon as I saw it, with that little protrusion, my first thought was "Okay, just *what* nicknames does it have?"
Shout out to the Kennecott smelter stack west of Salt Lake City for being the tallest man-made, freestanding structure west of the Mississippi river. At 1215 ft (370 m) tall, it is also the fourth tallest smoke stack in the world.
It's fascinated me for as long as my memory goes back. Makes me think of cold winter sunsets for some reason.
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Great upload Kyle! And thanks for props to the tallest totem pole in my province of BC. Your channel is quite unique and I'm a big fan!
Here's an idea for a show : strangest looking hi rises. Here in Vancouver, we're starting to accumulate about a half dozen now, the most prominent being 410 W Georgia and Vancouver House. Thanks again!
I used to have a background on my Windows computer that featured the buildings on the shoreline as viewed from somewhere near the Burrard St bridge looking east northeast. I love that style of building.
Did someone suggest the Perry Monument in Put in Bay Ohio? It is the tallest Doric Column in the
world measuring 352 feet. It's observation deck gives great views of the western basin of Lake Erie.
I thought of that one also
I concur. A beautiful structure !
The Bunker Hill monument is actually on Breed's Hill, but it is where they prepared for the actual Bunker Hill battle (or so I've been told all my life). A little local background for you all. Thanks Kyle!
Most websites state that the battle (or most of the battle)
took place on Breed's Hill.
Apparently, both American and British forces were confused
as to which hill was which.
So, when the Monument Association built the thing,
they correctly located the Bunker Hill Monument on Breed's Hill.
I think I heard that the Americans intended to fight on Bunker Hill, but in the dark they put up their defenses on the wrong hill.
The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is 630 feet tall------and also 630 feet wide at the base.
Thank you. I didn't know that fact at all.
It's also in the shape of a hyperbolic cosine.
@@Compucles The tour guides at the arch use the term "catenary curve". Then they tell you that it is not exactly the same as an inverted parabola. I'm not sure what a hyperbolic cosine would be, but maybe you're right.
@@MrDEWaters Yes, a catenary curve is a hyperbolic cosine. You are also correct in that it's not a parabola, because it's a hyperbola instead.
The CN Tower is no joke. The highest observation deck (above the restaurant portion) is crazy! It's small and feels kinda like the Hamburgler Jail from the old school McDonalds playland. It's not very well insulated, it's rickety, it's terrifying! But FUN!
The glass floor is crazy. I knew it was safe but still couldn't stand to walk on it when I visited the CN Tower years ago.... Amazing views though.
Niagara Falls Ontario also has a couple of interesting towers that aren't on the list. The Skylon, which looks a bit like a mashup of the CN Tower and the Space Needle is 520 feet and was completed in 1965. The Tower Hotel was completed in 1962, and 325 feet above street level. The tower has had many name changes over the years, originally call the Seagram Tower. Other names were the Heritage Tower 1969, Royal Inn Tower 1971, Royal Centre Tower 1972, Panasonic Tower 1973, Minolta Tower 1984, and the Konica Minolta Tower 2003. The present name dates from 2010, but it's still commonly just referred to as the Minolta Tower.
The statue of Vulcan, god of the forge, and its pedestal stands at 180 feet. It sits on a high ridge above the city of Birmingham, AL and is quite impressive for a relatively smaller inhabitable structure.
This is a great video concept. I noticed that you missed the 456 ft. 'Kingda Ka' rolllercoaster at Six Flags Great America, which would displace No. 11 on your list.
I was thinking that deserves to be in this video somewhere too. I'm guessing it doesn't really count as a "habitable structure", you're only up there for a few seconds haha.
@@doorknob60it is accessible for maintenance, there’s an elevator up and a staircase with handrails next to the track
It’s not very tall, but the Washington Monument in Baltimore is absolutely worth the climb to the top. It’s the oldest monument to George Washington in the country.
There is also a Washington Monument overlooking Boonesboro, MD (near Hagerstown). I happened upon this last year. It is kind of neat and it is almost 200 years old (although it was rebuilt after the Civil War). Not very tall, but neat anyway.
The Skyline tower in Niagara Falls Canada 🇨🇦 is 775 feet with great views
Top Thrill Dragster and Kingda Ka would be good honorable mentions.
The CN tower is incredible. Going up to the top ring is crazy. I love going whenever I visit Toronto.
Fun one not mentioned is Cedar Points Top Thrill Dragster (420 feet) and Six Flag Great Adventures Kingda Ka (456 feet). These two rides also happen to be the 2 tallest roller coasters in the world currently. However TTD probs should have an * next to it right now as it is closed and is under a remodel or potentially a new ride though that seem unlikely currently.
Perry’s Victory at Put in Bay Ohio stands 352ft. It’s a National Park
I love these kinds of videos with interesting and unique building style comparisons. It is neat to think how much skylines have developed with various cities throughout the years. Another cool video topic would be neat if you did is how much city skylines have changed versus some that have not over a set period of time.
Welcome back Kyle, hope you had a great road trip! I live in Edmond and had no idea we had the tallest onion water tower!
When I was a very little girl we lived in the Bankview neighborhood of Calgary, and my bedroom looked out on downtown. The Calgary Tower dominated the cityscape. Now it’s lost among the skyscrapers.
Bankview is a collection of hills that lead up to a plateau so high that it gives the impression that when you look toward downtown you’re looking not up to the top of the Tower but across at it.
Yeah it's pretty unfortunate that the tower is so surrounded. It's pretty old though and maybe it will be torn down in the next two decades and replaced on the west end so you can see 200 degrees of the city and the mountains. Calgary has a very beautiful skyline but the tower just doesn't match it as it awkwardly sits in the middle of it all. The Vancouver lookout is more awkward and out of place though, it pretty much ruins the skyline.
I was going to ask if you were interested in listing the antenna towers so I'm glad you included them in here. I was also going to mention that if you were going to list some that it would be a rather boring list and you also included that description in the video.
One other suggestion would be to list bell towers or campaniles in the world. Some of those are rather interesting.
Great video! Wasn’t the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse the one that was moved further inland to avoid it being “washed away”?
Yes, in 1999 it was moved 2900 feet! Quite the feat of engineering to do. If you go they have a bit of a museum showing how it was done, including videos.
There was also one on Martha’s Vineyard that had to be moved. Gay Head lighthouse I think.
I like how you switch between meters and feet based on the country. I think writing both measurements units on screen and speaking only one of them is the right approach.
Nice presentation! I would add the Skylon Tower in Niagara Falls Canada 😊
This is fantastic; as much as I enjoy the more geographically-focused videos this one is a great survey of unique architecture verging into topography. The Sunsphere looks like a spaceship, amazing.
Going to the top of the Stratosphere when I was staying there was probably one of the coolest experiences I had in Vegas. Its crazy how much it sways around up there, and yes, the roller coaster that tips you over the edge is terrifying 😂
I’ve never seen this content anywhere else. What a great idea! 👍
As a Washingtonian, I think its interesting how Seattle definitely has the most visually appealing tower. It looks more spry and sleek than all of the other towers, especially the concrete behemoths. Some of us don't like how popular the space needle is and how its a big tourist trap, but it definitely is the prettiest thing we got.
Don't know about prettiest, but definitely the coolest! And there are so many other interesting things at Seattle Center that most visitors don't know about until they go there for the Needle.
5:14 looks like a carnival/amusement park drop ride thing lol
Tyranny and Mutation what an album 📡
I think the Eiffel Towers at Kings Island and Kings Dominion are around 1/3rd scale. Along with budget concerns, this is why Orion's lift hill does not surpass 300ft although it reaches this threshold with its first drop
Intimidator 305 is 300 ft tall though. 305 ft actually.
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Having visited Kings Island last summer, the views you get from the Eiffel Tower are excellent.
I'm a huge aficionado of tall structures (usually I target buildings/skyscrapers but all kinds of tall structures are cool) so I'm glad you did this video! And thank you for making sure to cover the boring reality of TV towers and smokestacks.
Loving that Blue Oyster Cult record in the background.
I’m so glad you remembered the water sphere in Union NJ.
Good list! I’ve been up in the arch, Seattle’s space needle and the Eiffel Tower among the top ten; the Bunker Hill monument and Statue of Liberty; and drove to the base of the TV tower in North Dakota (that was quite a tradeoff…it’s a TV tower several miles off the interstate, but I thought, when am I going to be here again?).
I’d like to mention that Niagara Falls Ontario has more towers than most cities. Although the names of these towers have changed over the years I recall them as 1. The Skylon Tower, 2. The Panasonic Tower (had many name changes), 3. The Oneida Tower (later part of the Maple Leaf Village tourist attraction), and 4. Towers department store located on Dorchester Rd. near the QEW highway.
Also glad you mentioned the tallest building knocked over by Nelson Muntz
I've always thought the Bennington Vermont Battle Monument was a pretty cool one! Great list!
I drove by the tv tower in Blanchard when I was driving from Grand Forks to Fargo one time. It’s a few miles west of I-29. Surrounded by dirt roads but you can drive right up to it.
It doesn’t look as tall in the pictures as in real life. You can clearly see it from the interstate towering above the flatlands.
Yeah it's tough to show the tower well in a photo but it's cool to see in person
An honorable mention should have gone to the Ypsilanti, MI water tower. While it isn't super tall at only 147 feet it has a rather "suggestive" shape.
Yeah, the architect apparently didn't believe in circumcision.
Definitely gonna Google this one lol
The Astoria Column in Astoria OR is cool, not that tall but imposing on the hilltop. Good topic.
The KVLY tv tower north of Fargo was the world's tallest manmade structure when it was erected in 1963, over 2000 feet tall.
This was a cool video. It was interesting to see how tall these structures really are. Welcome back, Kyle. Hope you had a good road trip
Thanks. It's nice to travel but also nice to come home
Great one, Kyle, as always.
Thank you!
Great video! What about Olympic Stadium Tower in Montreal? The tallest manmade leaning structure.
Oh, you mean what was supposed to be part of the 'retractable roof' for the "Big Owe"? (And yeah, some Montrealer's are still waiting on that man to have a baby.)
@@davegreenlaw5654 LOL! Yup! But still a pretty structure. Montreal is like that neighbor with the fancy house and awesome car but with lots of debt. Montreal spends a lot of money but architecturally it is more interesting than, let's say, Toronto.
@@ctalcantara1700 Fully agree with you on the architecture. Toronto had too many 'forward thinkers' back in the 60's and 60's who were too eager to tear down things in order to put THEIR stamp on the city.
@@davegreenlaw5654 Toronto is great, but it need some spectacular, and memorable buildings. Toronto is too pragmatic.
I had hoped you would have included the Perry's victory and International Peace Memorial. Only 352 feet but a worthy honorable mention with a fantastic view.
I wish the Philadelphia City Hall clock tower was included. It remains the tallest all-masonry structure in the world at 548 feet.. It does have an interior and also an observation deck so it could be consider "habitable."
Where is the Skylon Tower in Niagara fall , Canada?
You could have included Montreal’s Olympic Stadium’s leaning tower.
Indianapolis has the soldiers and sailors monument which is pretty ornate and striking! (284 feet)
Yesss 🏁
most TV towers are plain, but I wonder if there are more interesting ones like the Sutro Tower in San Francisco. Great Video!
Super nerdy... and I loved every minute of it! 👍
Thank you Kyle
I'm glad you included the Peachoid. It always makes me smile when I'm driving up I-85. If anyone wants a better look, there's a Fatz restaurant right next door.
Thanks for the recognition! :]
Skyline, Canadian side of Niagara Falls, 520 ft
Nice video topic Kyle. Im immediately interested
Thx for your interesting content! Check out the approx ten 1000+/- foot radio towers in Cutler Maine used for submarines.
I live 30 mins away from the WEAU TV tower which is the tallest man made structure east of the Mississippi River. Originally constusted in the 60s but rebuilt in 2011 after a snow storm knocked it down.
I believe the Washington monument was also the tallest habitable structure for a while also
I'm sure I've seen hundreds of images of the Dallas skyline, but I never knew that the Reunion Tower wasn't an office building. (I knew it didn't have a lot of windows but I just sort of shrugged it off as some wacky expression of Brutalism.) Thanks for the lesson!
Going to a Blue Jays game and looking up at the CN Tower is honestly a little vertigo inducing.
Or going up to the lower observation deck and looking down on the stadium through the glass floor.
Going to a Blue Jays game is vomit inducing.
There's a dead-on copy of the Tower of the Americas in downtown Sidney, Australia. Had dinner up there in the late 90's.
Going to Vegas this month. Looking forward to riding the rides near the top! I've been wanting to ride them for years.
In KCMO, Liberty Memorial is 217 feet and nearby KCTV Tower at 1042 feet, aren't as tall as others. But they command the high ground south of downtown. KCTV can be seen for miles in various directions. Including on I70, at the Truman Sports Complex. About 5 miles. Being a CBS station, they called it the "Eyefull Tower." The tower is a 4-sided free standing tower, rather than a monopole. When built, in 1955, was the largest free standing tower in the world.
Great video, Kyle.
Nice video. I was hoping Baltimore's very pretty Washington Monument (older than the DC one) might get a mention. Baltimore doesn't get a lot of love from this channel -- or anywhere.
I saw the one in Baltimore a few years ago. It depicts the man himself. I like Baltimore, btw.
I can't believe you didn't say anything much about the Tower of the Americas in San Antonio, other than that it is ugly. It's very mid-century, and having been built in the 60s, that's to be expected. Also, there's a rotating restaurant in the round at the top, and a wonderful museum of San Antonio all around the base, and surrounded by a wonderful garden with waterfalls and native plants. The restaurant is one of the nicest in San Antonio, and offers a 360degree view miles and miles in every direction as you eat dinner. It's a wonderful place to visit.
Yeah this dudes opinion is very blah. I thought he would of said more about the STL arch also. But that’s all he really had to say. The arch 😂
Surprised to see our city’s own Calgary Tower here. Especially because newer structures have overshadowed it in the past 2 decades.
Where’s the wig shop in the sunsphere? Is there an information desk? 🤣
"There's another World's Fair coming soon ... right? .... before Friday?"
I wish you would have talked more about the towers and smoke stacks. My personal favorite tall thing in the USA is the Kennecott Utah Copper LLC's Garfield Smelter Stack outside Salt Lake City. I don't find those things boring at all. I love learning about weird things like that.
That Sir Mixalot reference was pretty cool
As a Knoxville resident I’m glad you showed the sun sphere which was prominently featured in an episode of The Simpsons
Apparently the Outer Continental Shelf doesn’t count? I used to work on the Bullwinkle platform, which is a freestanding platform, extending ~300 feet above the waterline, but ~1400 feet below, so a total of ~1700 feet. The jacket covers 4.5 acres of sea floor.
Later platforms developed for this water depth and beyond are floaters.
That sounds like it would be a good episode for Superstructures
It sounds like it should count for something.
This was a great video!
Btw just went to Chattanooga last week. You guys have a super cool pinball museum!
One other tall obelisk is the High Point Monument in the NW corner of New Jersey. It is 220 feet tall. Also a suggestion. Much of New York City has such steep terrain that there are pedestrian staircases called "step streets" replacing some streets. But they have the names of the streets that would otherwise be there. According to my research there are 102 throughout the 5 boroughs. I imagine other cities have them as well.
This was an interesting video. The only one I have been in is the Arch in St. Louis. It swayed slightly in the wind.
Pretty great video ! Well done
Perry's Monument in Ohio should have been an honorable mention. It is quite an impressive structure for 1915 and the views across Lake Eire are quite the sight to behold. One of the times I've been up there we watched waterspouts between Kelleys and Pelee islands. I've also been in the CN Tower and walked across the glass floor. It's waaaaay up there. The Seattle space needle is cool I've eaten at the restaurant which is on a platform with continuously rotates 360 degrees. I've also been in the Eiffel Tower replica at Kings Island but it's only a 1/3 scale model. I kinda fell into a thing for towers I should probably take a USA road trip to visit more.
Love the Space Noodle in Seattle! (Well it's really too wide for a needle... )
Always informative and entertaining. Thank you.
Another nice video. How about a battle of the tallest battle monuments? The are at least a few that will beat the Bunker Hill Monument.
Nice video! I thought we were going to see some dams in there. Maybe in another one!
Also, I believe that there are several Bridges, such as the Golden Gate, that should have made this list.
1968 HemisFair in San Antonio, I was there in June, traveling to my first summer job at Cedar Point......from Tucson.................lolol
Another that I feel should definitely get honorable mention, and especially coming from a Floridian’s perspective, is Bok Tower in Lake Wales, Florida. It’s maybe the most beautiful tower in the world in my opinion, opened in 1929, and stands 205 feet (62m) tall. It also has one of the only remaining carillons in the world that is still played, and it is known as the “Singing Tower”. It’s also surrounded by a beautiful sprawling garden designed by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., the son of the famous Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. who designed Central Park, is on the National Register of Historic Places, and Edward Bok who designed the tower was an early promoter of Frank Lloyd Wright. The tower and gardens were even opened by President Calvin Coolidge. It’s a largely overlooked magnificent structure in Central Florida, that sort of feels out in the wilderness now, but is still very well maintained and curated.
this is a good point. university clock towers could also find their way into this video as well. both UC Berkeley and UT Austin have among the tallest in the world.
Well done. I have a list of every Monument in America over 100 feet tall. I have been wanting to make it a Wikipedia entry but no luck so far.
Why do you need luck to make a Wikipedia entry?
@@grantofat6438 I just can't figure out how to do it.
I wasn't expecting the Sir Mix-a-Lot reference.
Very nice. Thank you. (great, as always...)
The CN Tower is so tall you can see it from the Mountain Brow In Hamilton on a clear day. The Mountain as its locally known is the top of th escarpment in the city.
Yes. The CN Tower is so tall I've seen across Lake Ontario on a clear day from the shore of Lake Ontario in St Catherine's.
Water towers have always been a weird interest of mine. Living in the midwest, each town's water tower is sort of like their beacon seen from miles away.
To go with the peach one in SC, Rochester, MN has a corn shaped one. It's actually one of the city's most famous landmarks.
The Brainerd, MN water tower is also a symbol of the city. It looks like a chess rook (crenelated tower).
Really disappointed not seeing the Garfield smelter stack I see everyday in Salt Lake standing 1,215’