Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Acrobat Charles Blondin is shown walking a tightrope in downtown Manitowoc, Wisconsin, in 1874. A close look at the image ...

For more than 40 years, visitors to Niagara Falls, Ontario, have gazed upward to a fiberglass likeness of 19th-century tightrope walker Charles Blondin occupying not only his fabled wire, but his ...