The new Shanghai Tower is now over 500 meters tall, and currently stands 1, 643 feet into the Shanghai sky, making it taller than the World Financial Tower next door.

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There may be a gray sky behind the Eiffel Tower or Big Ben when you take your vacation photos, but that's nothing a little photo editing can't fix.

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Sometimes a big blue hand would come down out of the sky and sweep away one or more levels of the square tower, or even the whole thing.

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The top of the tower is flat and offers a view of the sky above the Olympic Park.

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Dress up for the Sky Lounge bar, which perches on the roof of the medieval Consorti Tower, overlooking the Ponte Vecchio to the Tuscan hills.

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With the London Philharmonic providing the audio backdrop, lasers are to light up the night sky, beaming across town to touch several landmarks: the London Eye, the Gherkin, Tower Bridge.

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We may as well be climbing the tower of Babel to shoot arrows at the sky.

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In Auckland, the major city closest to the International Date Line, fireworks exploded over the city's 328m (1, 076ft) Sky Tower as midnight struck (11:00 GMT).

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Step inside Tower No. 5, and you immediately feel the cool breeze that funnels up 496 feet to the sky.

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