When the Eifel Tower was originally built for the Worlds Fair in 1889 Parisians did not like it.  It was so tall and Paris was so flat that you could see it from everywhere.  My favorite story goes that a newspaper writer in Paris, who particulary hated the tower and wrote about it, would eat in the restaurant in the tower every day for lunch.  When asked why he went to the object of his hatred every day he replied, "It is the only place in Paris from which I cannot see the tower."

Also, I learned recently that if the Eiffel tower were shrunk to 14" tall, it would weight 9 grams.