Once completed, the tower became the gateway to the 1889 World’s Fair. It attracted nearly 2 million visitors and was the tallest building in the world at the time. For many, it offered the ...

See 11 of the week’s most interesting images ... Tower attraction in Paris, made of a 131 foot-long bridge at a height of 197 feet, designed with nets and set up on the first floor of the Eiffel ...

On March 31, 1889, the Eiffel Tower was dedicated in Paris in a ceremony presided over by its designer, Gustave Eiffel, ...