The Eiffel Tower has a new glass-floored platform and a glass suspension
bridge is wowing people in China. Here are the scariest glass-bottomed
attractions around the world.
The Ledge at the Willis Tower Skydeck, Chicago
Visitors
can step outside the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere into
boxes made completely of glass. These glass balconies (as they're also
known) sit 1353 feet in the air off the side of Chicago's Willis Tower.
Step Into the Void, Chamonix, France
Last
year this glass box was installed in the off the side of Chamonix Peak
in the French Alps. Suspended almost two miles high, the attraction is
appropriately called Step Into the Void.
Walking Canada's Glacier Skywalk
Jutting
35 metres out the side of a cliff on Jasper National Park's Icefields
Parkway, this glass-floored observation walkway hangs 280 metres above
Sunwapta Canyon.
Dachstein Glacier Skywalk, Dachstein Glacier, Austria
This
glass-bottomed walkway has been called "the balcony of the Alps."
That's one high balcony, looking down a 850-foot drop off the side of
Dachstein Glacier.
Grand Canyon Skywalk
"My vision was
to enable visitors to walk the path of the eagle..." said David Jin,
creator of the Grand Canyon Skywalk. The glass bridge juts out 70 feet
from the edge of the cliffs above a 4000-foot drop to the bottom of the
canyon on the West Rim.
CN Tower Glass Floor, Toronto
The
famous CN Tower's glass floor was the first of its kind when it was
built in 1994. Visitors to the building can test their nerve by looking
straight down for 1122 feet.
Scary glass bridge opens in China
China's first high-altitude glass bridge opens to tourists in central Hunan province. Jeanne Yurman reports. Credit to Reuters.
Skytree, Tokyo
Skytree
tower is the tallest tower in the world, at over 2000 feet. About 1150
feet up is one of two observation decks where visitors can walk across
glass paneled flooring and look down more than a hundred stories.
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