Amazing Facts about Many Buildings in This World

Wonderworks

      

One of the top thing to do in Pigeon Forge. Wonderworks indoor Amusement park, is one of the best Pigeon Forge attractions. With over 35,000 square feet "edu-tainment" wonderworks is an amusement park for the mind. The attraction combines education and entertainment with more than 100 hands exhibits that challenge the mind and spark the imagination.

This once top-secret laboratory was located in the Bermuda triangle. An experiment gone away lifted the laboratory carrying it to Music Drive in Pigeon Forge. Tennessee where it landed upside down. Luckilly all of the exhibits remained intact and available for guests to explore.

Bloody Tower

   

The Bloody Tower is the most strongly associated with supposed murder of the 12 year old Edward V and his younger brother , Richard, in 1483. Tradition says that they stayed in these rooms on the order of thier Uncle , the future Richard III.

 

The Bloody Tower was not only used for keeping prisoners locked in, it was also built to keep people out!

Coliseum

  

Located just east of the Roman Forum, the massive stone amphitheater known as the Colosseum was commisioned around A.D. 70-72 by Emperor Vespasian of the Flavian dynasty as a gift to the Roman people. In A.D. 80, Vespasian's son Titus opened the Colosseum-Officially known as the Falavian amphitheater-with 100 days of games, including gladiatorial cambats and wild animals fight. After four centuries of active use the original Colosseum has been destroy over time, the amphitheater remains a popular tourist destination, as well as an iconic symbol of Rome and its long, tumultuous history.

Petronas Towers

       

On April 1996, the Council on Tall buildings named the Petronas Towers the tallest in the world, passing the torch to a new continent.

Height: 1,483ft (452meters)

Owners: Kuala Lampur City Centre Holdings Senderians Berhad

Architects: Cesar Pelli & Associates

Engineers: Thornton-Tomasetti

Contractors: Mayjus and SKJ joint Ventures

Tropping Out: 1998

Official Opening: August 28, 1999. 

 

 

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