Paris's 'Iron Lady' is already packed with millions of visitors every year — and now thrill-seekers are lining up to cross a rope bridge high between its pillars. The temporary attraction, which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eiffel chose puddled iron for its construction, a material he knew well and had used in previous projects with good results. This ...

There is ongoing debate over Olympic rings added to the Eiffel Tower and worry that they may become a permanent fixture. AFP via Getty Images Vive la résistance! Family descendants of famed 19th ...

The descendants of the Eiffel Tower's designer say they will fight to stop the Olympic rings being left on the tower, as the mayor of Paris plans. The family of the legendary engineer Gustave Eiffel ...

Visitors to the Eiffel Tower can now cross a suspended rope bridge between two of the Paris landmark's pillars. The temporary attraction, which opened on Tuesday, spans 40 metres between the first ...

To preserve the spirit of the Games, Paris' mayor has proposed making the five Olympic rings installed on the Eiffel Tower a permanent fixture. Now the Eiffel family has gotten involved. The Summer ...

Portions of the spiral staircase that originally connected the two top-most floors of Paris’s Eiffel Tower are scattered among museums and private collections around the world. As of this week, ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — One of the most popular topics of last summer’s U.S. Olympic Swim Team Trials in Indianapolis wasn’t a competitor — it was a replica of the Eiffel Tower. The 66-foot-tall, 14,000 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To give an idea of how light the tower is, its weight of 7,300 tonnes is close to the weight of the volume of air contained within ...