at the work office we have panorama pictures of a few major american cities. one of them is of seattle. so i was looking at the space needle and started thinking about what towers are out there that look like that--they don't necessarily have to have "tower" as part of their name. there's the stratosphere in las vegas and sky tower in auckland but i'm sure there's more. this towers thing could be another little checklist of things to do while traveling. i started looking them up and there are some buildings with the name "tower" in them but they are just standard office buildings so i won't include them. there is a nice list of such towers at wikipedia. i'll just mention the ones that are over 250m and have an observation deck and actually allow(ed) tourists/visitors. i will list a few under 250m for comparison.

cn tower of toronto, canada (553m)
ostankino tower of moscow, russia (540m)
oriental pearl tower of shanghai, china (468m)
milad tower of iran (435m)
minara tower of kuala lumpur, malaysia (421m)
central china television tower of beijing (405m)
tv tower of tashkent, uzbekistan (375m)
liberation tower of kuwait (372m)
berlin television tower of germany (368m)
stratosphere of las vegas, usa (350m) - slept there!
macau tower (338m)
tower of europe of frankfurt, germany (337m)
torrena of guadalajara, mexico (336m)
tokyo tower of japan (333m) - been there!
sky tower of auckland, new zealand (328m) - been there!
vilnius tv tower of lithuania (326m)
eiffel tower of france (324m)
tallinn tv tower of estonia (314m)
tortoise mountain tower of wuhan, china (311m)
sydney tower of australia (309m)
nurnberg telecommunication tower of germany (292m)
olympiaturm of munich, germany (291m)
torre de collserola of barcelona, spain (288m)
heinrich-hertz-turm of hamburg, germany (279m)
hillbrow tower of johannesburg, south africa (269m)
colonius of cologne, germany (266m)
fernsehturm dresden-wachwitz of dresden, germany (252m)
danube tower of vienna, austria (252m)
seoul tower of south korea (237m)
calgary tower of canada (190m)
space needle of seattle, usa (184m)
montreal tower of canada (175m)
leaning tower of pisa, italy (55m)
watts towers of california, usa (30m) - been there!