Oriental Pearl TV Tower

The TV tower on the Pudong waterfront — the silhouette on every Shanghai postcard. Eleven rose-pink spheres stack up 468 metres, hiding observation decks at 263 and 351 metres and a glass-floored skywalk; the Shanghai History Museum sits at its base. Completed in 1994, the tower looks especially surreal in fog. Come at dusk, when the Bund's skyline lights up across the river.