Wichita Falls: the world's smallest skyscraper
In northern Texas, Wichita Falls holds a skyscraper barely taller than four meters, the result of a famous and spectacular real estate fraud.
The downtown is comfortably walkable on foot, just steps from the world's smallest skyscraper.
The Newby-McMahon Building, known worldwide as the world's smallest skyscraper according to Guinness Records, remains a curious and beloved attraction in the city centre.
A few minutes away, the artificial waterfall that gives the city its name, rebuilt in the nineteen-eighties after the original disappeared, enlivens a city park.
Continuing towards the centre, you visit the Wichita Falls Museum of Art, with collections of regional art from northern Texas.
Towards evening, the historic downtown neighbourhood comes alive with restaurants in early twentieth-century commercial buildings.
The Newby-McMahon Building was constructed in the 1920s after an investor defrauded shareholders by building a four-meter-high structure instead of the promised four hundred thirty meters shown in the original designs.
The original waterfall that gave Wichita Falls its name vanished due to a nineteenth-century flood, forcing the city to build an artificial one decades later to honor its name.
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