Looking back through time, the world’s tallest man-made structure was the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. It held that position over 3,800 years, until the Lincoln Cathedral was built in 1311. France’s Strasbourg Cathedral, completed in 1439, was the world’s tallest building until 1874.
The world’s first “skyscraper” was built in 1885 in Chicago. All told, 11 American buildings have held the title of tallest building in the world, mostly in New York City and the borough of Manhattan.
Today the world’s tallest building is located in Dubai. The Burj Khalifa was built in 2009 and is 2,717 ft. tall…