A USA Today article lists ten top elevator destinations:
- The Deep (Hull, England) - The world's only underwater elevator.
- Space Needle (Seattle) - Space capsule shaped high-speed elevator cars service this former centerpiece of a World's Fair.
- Christ the Redeemer Monument (Rio de Janeiro) - New whisper-quiet elevators now carry guests to the base of this inspirational statue.
- Burj Khalifa (Dubai) - The world's fastest elevators, which travel nearly 2,000 feet per minute, zip visitors to the top of the world's tallest building.
- Newseum (Washington, D.C.) - Six-story glass-walled elevators offer a memorable bay-window view of a 90-foot-tall atrium and the sights along Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue.
- Eiffel Tower (Paris) - Customized elevators, designed to climb up the monument's curved legs, are an engineering marvel,
- Luxor Hotel (Las Vegas) – Sixteen elevators climb to the top of the pyramid-shaped building at a 39-degree angle.
- Empire State Building (New York) - The so-called "robot elevators" of this 1931 art deco building amazed the public because they were among the first that visitors could summon by pushing a button. Otis is now installing a new energy-efficient elevator system that generates electricity as it works, much like a hybrid car.
- The Biltmore (Asheville, N.C.) - George Vanderbilt's extraordinary mountain mansion was the first building in the region to have an elevator. With ornate metalwork and brass fixtures, it is one of the oldest operating systems around.
- CN Tower (Toronto) – An express elevator for the tallest freestanding structure in the Western Hemisphere takes guests, in glass-door cars, to an observation deck 1,136 feet above Canada's largest city in less than a minute.
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