Eiffel Tower

I, like many Pariseans at the time of its erection, think the Eiffel Tower is ugly. Its sheer mass borderlines on collapsing in on itself. Its huge base (even larger when you're standing under it) makes the top look like an antenna fit to be atop Mt. Wilson. Although the view from the top is spectacular, the view from the middle is nearly as nice: it doesn't need to be so tall! Personal biases came into play as I visited on a rainy day: it provides no shelter from the storm! It is extremely impractical, as it looks like a big metal pole sticking out of the ground. Sadly, my favorite book of French philosophy was ruinined in the rain at the tower that day. It's arching architecture is completely unoriginal, one can see such pretty symmetry on the Camps-Elysees with the Arc de Triumph. If you visit Paris, go here first if you go at all, so as to see the entirety of Paris at once. Yet its virtue is its downfall, its height makes it look absurd. Besides, if you go to Magic Mountain and see the ride Superman, it has the aesthetic appeal of the Diffel Tower: it is the tower cut in half with a roller coaster gouing up the side!