From the high towers of the Golden Gate Bridge to the rocky walls of Alcatraz; from the twin peaks in the heart of the city to the clanging downtown cable cars; the landscape of San Francisco is as legendary as it is beautiful.
From the top of the high tower near Uaxactún, where lookouts watch for forest fires during the dry season, conservation seems assured.
But if you do help pay for Benny Hinn's jet, he'll put your name in the special prayer cabin he's going to use as he races across the planet aboard, ahem, "Dove One," fulfilling the Great Commission from "the highest prayer tower in the world... where he will intercede for you......
TAKE A VIEW The best view of Munich (and, on a clear day, the Bavarian Alps) is from the 80m-high tower of the Neues Rathaus (3) (00 49 89 23 300; muenchen.de), but it is open only Monday to Friday, 10am-5pm (admission €2).
Thrown into prison, Conker is faced with the prospect of execution and the game starts with his escape, ball and chain attached, from the Castle's highest tower".
From the 900m high tower in which I now lived, I surveyed a transforming cityscape, embracing recent technological developments.
Living history season at the park, when re-enactors inhabit a spit-shined facsimile of frontier Utah that is practically a stone's throw from the high-rise towers downtown, runs from mid-May through September.
Suzanne Anton, an N.P.A. councilwoman, said the project's financing problems actually dated back to 2002, when planners decided the village design should shift away from the high-rise towers that dominated the Vancouver skyline — which would have been cheaper to build and sell or rent.
