Sky Tower

This guide to Auckland's Sky Tower follows two sides of the same building: the stunt platform where strangers step off two hundred metres up on a wire, and the engineering that let the 1997 spire survive cyclones and earthquakes by design. Fletcher Construction's engineers built it to bend rather than resist, flexing under wind and quake alike. One floor below the jump deck, New Zealand's only revolving restaurant turns so slowly most diners never notice they've moved.