For my birthday this year I went to the Gateway Arch in Saint Louis, Missouri. I went to the absolute top! To get there, you had to go up in an elevator not unlike a space pod. It went up on one tilting track, so the "pod" had to readjust and tilt the other way about every 20-30 seconds.
Did you know the arch is 630 ft high and wide? Cool, right? The arch was actually built as a monument to Thomas Jefferson. It's also taller than the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington. When I was in the top of the arch, I could look out a slanted window and see so straight down, I could almost look at the other side!
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