Visiting the Eiffel Tower is on many people's bucket lists, but there's only one man who dared to live atop the famed French structure: Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the tower's architect. He built himself a tiny apartment at the top of the structure, 1,000 feet above Paris because, well, why not?

While Eiffel reportedly received many generous offers to rent his coveted pied-a-terre [1], he refused them all, keeping the apartment as a private retreat and workshop, where he is said to have entertained the era's great minds [2], including Thomas Edison.

Today, however, any average Joe can visit the apartment as it's open to the public. Check it out below or visit in person if you're in Paris.