I just learned today about the Tiger Hill Pagoda, which is in Suzhou, China. It dates back to 961 CE. The Wikipedia article says it leans at a 3 degree angle, but it looks like it’s leaning a lot more in the pictures.
But wait! There’s more!
There’s another "Leaning Tower of China in Shanghai. It’s the Huzhu Pagoda, and it leans at a greater angle than the Tower of Pisa – 7.1 degrees. It’s about a century younger than the one in Tiger hill, having been built in 1079
Oddly, neither Wikipedia article mentions the other Chinese Leaning Tower.
I’d just like the point out that anyone can make a tower lean. The trick is to have it lean significantly for several hundred years an not topple over (the way any ship can go underwater, but only submarines can come back up again).
You need to add, “under they’re own power”. The Battleships West Virginia & California were sunk during the Pearl Harbor attack and raised and repaired and returned to duty.
For reference, the Leaning Tower of Pizza’s tilt is 3.97 degrees (yes, they go to the hundredths in the wiki article) which is improved from the previous 5.5 degree tilt prior to stabilization work completed in 2001.
About that Tiger Hill Pagoda in Suzhou, on one of my business trips to Shanghai I took a bus tour out to Suzhou which is about 90 minutes to the west. There are lots of canals and they call it the Venice of China, and we took a gondola ride.
We did go to a silk factory and that was interesting. A few years later I’m still using the silk comforter on my bed and it works really well. I prefer it to a down comforter.
We visited several sites and saw many sights that day, but they did not take us to the Tiger Hill Pagoda. So I guess it wasn’t noteworthy enough to be included.
True story. The parents of a friend of my son’s accidentally happened on the leaning tower of Niles and got out of their car to look. One of them said to the other, “Only in America.” A passerby heard this and said, “Oh no, there’s one just like it in Italy.”
