The Walkabout Travel Guide

Almost everyone recognizes the Leaning Tower of Pisa before they've ever seen it in person. Photographs of it are everywhere, usually with someone pretending to hold it up. What those photos rarely capture is how strange it actually feels standing in front of it. A structure this large, tilted this visibly, shouldn't still be standing. And yet it is, nearly nine centuries after construction began. That contradiction is a big part of what makes...