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Tricked: Pisa Doesn't Lean Like We Thought

November 9, 2007 at 9:15 AM | 0 Comments

Climbed the Leaning Tower of Pisa yet? Despite being still a bit amazed that a feat of engineering gone totally wrong could become such a major tourist attraction, we've done our turn up the spiral staircase, but it might all have been for nothing.

Turns out that Pisa's tower is in fact not the building with the greatest lean in the world. A church steeple in the German village of Suurhusen in the northwest of the country actually leans more than Pisa. It's not as beautiful as the more famous bell tower, nor quite as old, but it's officially now the world record holder. Book a trip soon, and you might be the first in your neighborhood to get a Leaning Steeple of Suurhusen pen holder on your desk.

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