It features a 354-foot Eiffel Tower replica, wide Parisian-style boulevards, fountains and classical buildings. But Tianducheng struggled to attract buyers, and for years it was dubbed a "ghost city".

This includes a half-scale version in Las Vegas, Nevada, and a full-scale replica in Tokyo, Japan. Fittingly, the one in Paris, Texas, has a cowboy hat on top. 8. The Eiffel Tower shrinks when it ...

On the eastern coast of China—some 6,000 miles from the City of Light—a 354-foot replica of the Eiffel Tower dominates Tianducheng’s skyline. Known as the “Paris of the East”, the luxury ...