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The world's largest goat tower was built by accident

An Illinois couple's goat tower runs 31 feet tall, with an extra wrap of ramp added by miscalculation.

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Aug 04, 2026
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goat tower — Marcia Rittmueller Johnson / CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
goat tower — Marcia Rittmueller Johnson / CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

The Tower of Baa-Goat is a 31-foot brick tower in Windsor, Illinois, with a ramp spiraling up the outside of it, and goats live in it. Dave and Marcia Johnson built it in the late 1990s, Marcia told the Atlas Obscura podcast, after Dave saw a photograph of the goat tower at South …

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